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- NPW--Paris
  I used to find her somehow chilly and disengaged, so I was taken aback by her powerful performance in Onegin at La Monnaie in 2023. Then, last year, she was a chilling (not chilly) Governess...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 4 minutes ago
- NPW--Paris
  I went twice to that one.
  
  Die Sterne des Himmels werden zur Erde fallen · 9 minutes ago
- Krunoslav
  Petrova was if not especially individual fully up to the role.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 55 minutes ago
- TildyDiva
  Fascinating! I had not heard that about Robert Stephens. Bob Mackie did Costa's costumes in later years including her Violetta costumes and her Merry Widow costumes. In Mackie's book,...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 2 hours ago
- Dogbert7
  Beautiful. Thank you for sharing this. I remembered that Isabel Leonard sang an Armenian song with musicians from the Met Orchestra as part of a covid air flow study. I thought it was by Komitas,...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 2 hours ago
- MisterSnow
  She has been a hit at Palm Beach Opera for the past 2 seasons (Hoffman and Romeo et Juliette). The operas for 2026 are Boheme, The Pearl Fishers, and Rigoletto. While Lewek could certainly sing a...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 3 hours ago
- Cornelia
  Sounds fun, though Idomeneo always sounds fun to me.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 4 hours ago
- Cornelia
  It surprised me too, as I enjoyed the broadcast of the premiere very much. Maybe it was YNS or the production, which I recall was a fairly bare stage.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 4 hours ago
- Cornelia
  Your post reminds me of a wonderful album that came out last year called Music In Times of War, which juxtaposes music of Debussy and Komitas (think Armenia's Bartok in terms of ethnographic...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 4 hours ago
- Camille
  Very, very interesting, indeed. Thanks.
  
  Die Sterne des Himmels werden zur Erde fallen · 4 hours ago
- Camille
  Gramilano is just now getting the news out about Anita's lawsuit. Here it is:
  https://www.gramilano.com/
  very very sorry situation
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 4 hours ago
- kennedet
  Interesting comment. Thanks for being straight forward about your perceptions. I knew of a critic who was accused of listening to the best recording he could discover before the concert and...
  
  Die Sterne des Himmels werden zur Erde fallen · 5 hours ago
- Le Petit Yniold
  Just listened to (more or less) the first half of Salome. It may not be a good idea less than a week before I will see Salome in the house. It's not just that Nilsson is sui generis, but even...
  
  Die Sterne des Himmels werden zur Erde fallen · 5 hours ago
- kennedet
  I think there was an interesting comment regarding her captivating technique in her documentary: If you were singing on the stage with her you could barely hear her, but if you were in the audience...
  
  Die Sterne des Himmels werden zur Erde fallen · 5 hours ago
- scott grunow
  No, it's me
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 6 hours ago
- Camille
  Yes, in Paris last year or so — you may go read All Aboutit over on NPW_Paris’s Blog. He was THERE.
  How is L’Accademia Castafiore this spring? Any promising graduates?
  
  Die Sterne des Himmels werden zur Erde fallen · 6 hours ago
- Camille
  Listened to a bit o’ Birgit this a.m. — and what I found most interesting about her vocal quality was her very child-like timbre coupled with this slightly lost little lambie-pie affect. Very...
  
  Die Sterne des Himmels werden zur Erde fallen · 6 hours ago
- Camille
  I want LAKMÊ, and right away!
  Hoping I live to 2028, sigh!
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 6 hours ago
- Benedetta Funghi-Trifolati
  She also had beautiful piani and pianissimi, judiciously utilized in both her Italian and German roles.
  
  Die Sterne des Himmels werden zur Erde fallen · 6 hours ago
- Camille
  Don’want NO COVER!! Unless it’s Rachvelishvili!
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 6 hours ago