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- MisterSnow
  Fortunately, we have a 20+ minute excerpt on this BBC documentary from 1971 (starting about 53:00) with Richard Cassidy as her Rhadames. He sounds pretty good, but the wit does him no favors....
  
  Ethiopian blends · 8 minutes ago
- GeddaLife
  Huh?
  
  Peu m’importe si tu m’aimes · 21 minutes ago
- MisterSnow
  I sang lead in the barbershop quartet in high school (and later sang tenor).
  https://youtu.be/1BWLRymSsCU?si=a5D6LilbPW6Ld8-f
  
  Peu m’importe si tu m’aimes · 23 minutes ago
- Astyanax Spumante
  Calling it "a bit of a slog" was way generous.
  
  Peu m’importe si tu m’aimes · 41 minutes ago
- Apulia
  The two reviews of the Vishnevskaya performance in the Met archives make me wish I had been there. What little I've hard of Vickers so far on the recording posted makes me wish so even more....
  
  Ethiopian blends · 55 minutes ago
- feliks
  I saw Nagy as a replacement Luigi in Il Tabarro with the Met on Tour in Boston. I thought he held his own against Scotto's towering achievement as all 3 heroines.
  
  Ethiopian blends · 1 hour ago
- feliks
  I saw Dunn's Amneris with the Met on Tour in Boston in 1976 with Arroyo and Bergonzi.
  
  Ethiopian blends · 1 hour ago
- laddie
  I wouldn't call this a pan but saying it is the third best in a trilogy of films is nicht so gut.
  
  Peu m’importe si tu m’aimes · 1 hour ago
- James Laferla
  I tuned in, heard Papageno barking dialog, and quickly turned it off. Children actually like this?!
  
  The Magic Flute · 1 hour ago
- Ask a librarian
  That sounds great! Funny how a good staging of an opera just stays with you forever. Mine was totally forgettable, and the next one by the annoying Christoph Marthaler does not look much better:
  
  Streich the harp and join the chorus · 1 hour ago
- Moe Rear
  The audience was stunned and the scene change was about to happen, but the audience thought different and started the endless ovation for la O.
  
  Ethiopian blends · 1 hour ago
- Krunoslav
  Amara’s last in-house Met Aida was on tour in Cleveland in 1973, but she reappeared in 1986 singing a Parks concert performance in the Bronx. The archives gets the details wrong, it was the tenor...
  
  Ethiopian blends · 1 hour ago
- Moe Rear
  I was there for Obraztsova's debut and was knocked out of my seat. The lady could have brought down the pyramids with her performance that night. I also remember the titters that went through...
  
  Ethiopian blends · 1 hour ago
- PCally
  Got it.
  
  Ethiopian blends · 1 hour ago
- Peter
  I saw Mignon Dunn as Amneris opposite Cruz-Romo in the late 70's. I was usually up in the Family Circle but someone gave me an orchestra seat and Dunn was absolutely thrilling. I was less...
  
  Ethiopian blends · 1 hour ago
- Krunoslav
  Verrett and Solti didn’t get along in the ROH run that underlay that recording.
  
  Ethiopian blends · 1 hour ago
- southerndoc1
  I'd always heard how she brought down the house, so listening I was a little surprised that the audience waited a few beats at the end of the Judgement to begin the ovation. Verdi's...
  
  Ethiopian blends · 1 hour ago
- Krunoslav
  I saw that production, my first Chekhov, as a tween. Was impressed.
  
  Peu m’importe si tu m’aimes · 2 hours ago
- Krunoslav
  Born this day 1919, San Carlo/NYCO/Met bass William Wilderman, whose Broadway credits include creating Horace in 1949’s original REGINA. I heard him exactly 30 years later as a very effective Met...
  
  Peu m’importe si tu m’aimes · 2 hours ago
- Moe Rear
  I heard Amara's Aida when she stepped in for Tucci or Arroyo (can't remember). While she sang well and could be heard, the voice lacked the richness and warmth one expects in an Aida...
  
  Ethiopian blends · 2 hours ago