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Well, Strauss wanted Elisabeth Schumann to sing Salome ...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 28 minutes ago
That part has got to be the lowest opera role for a woman.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 52 minutes ago
I am seeing it Friday May 2. And I am Herodias.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 54 minutes ago
And no Salome, either. Too spicy?
It was certainly big, anyway.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 1 hour ago
Only after they have done Lakmé and Isolde for a few years to get ready.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 1 hour ago
Can't wait to see it on Tuesday. Good to know the singing was so good. How was the conducting?
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 1 hour ago
It has just occurred to me : this Tosca staging is the (in)famous pedophile, S&M staging that could be seen at the Liceu in 2023, isn’t it ?
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago
I went to the dress rehearsal of Salome this morning. It was very exciting. I don’t want to say anything about the production. The singers were all remarkable. For me the standouts were Elza van...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 2 hours ago
In theater on this date: Vincent Youmans’ follow-up to No, No, Nanette from 1925 was Hit the Deck in 1927. This time, though, the book was by Herbert Fields with lyrics by Clifford Grey and Leo...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 2 hours ago
They should alternate in the roles of Elektra and Chrysothemis, with Max Emanuel Cencic as Klytaemnestra.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 2 hours ago
I ate there last visit as I had time to kill before checking in to the hotel. And I will be wearing leather pants and cowboy boots....
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 2 hours ago
You should read some of the comments on yt.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 2 hours ago
Sometimes I stumble across opera Reddit and it is ALWAYS an entertaining journey. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 2 hours ago
Out of interest, I looked up whom I last saw as Gaea in Daphne. Birgit Remmert. She’s presented in most online sources as ‘mezzo soprano and contralto.’
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 2 hours ago
It wasn’t me.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 3 hours ago
I think the only real contraltos I've heard live are Lili Chookasian, Maureen Forrester, and Huguette Tourangeau. Of course, many contraltos claim they are mezzos.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 3 hours ago
1988?!?!?! I need my smelling salts.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Remko Jas · 3 hours ago
OK, I know so much less about singing than does Marilyn Horne, but to me it sounds like the way she chose to sing — so forward, so masky, some have said nasal — put a kind of horizontal...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 4 hours ago
Will definitely look for you (and your cowboy boots?) at the May 1st Aida. We walk over from Cafe Fiorello so are usually there on the early side when the pole isn't as crowded.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 4 hours ago
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