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- TC
  Just to be clear: my admiration for Vanzo goes back 40 years so is neither a "recent Parterre infatuation" nor a "fad." And of course it's based on his recordings: I...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 11 minutes ago
- Krunoslav
  Not sure I find that surprising. Surely only a few here heard Wunderlich or Souzay or Gorr live either...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 15 minutes ago
- Krunoslav
  Indeed I was. They had me going to concerts and theater, including G& S, at age 4. Opera at age 11. But the bug really kicked in when they gave me and my siblings tickets to a few things on their...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 17 minutes ago
- thenoctambulist
  Well, who cares for versmilitude in an opera? Yes, it is more realistic to end without the rondo but it is a magnificent cabaletta. Wouldn't it miss for the world.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 18 minutes ago
- thenoctambulist
  Lucrezia Borgia is my favorite Donizetti too. It was the first opera of Gaetano I heard and I fell in hook line and sinker for Gaetano. I love my every bit of this opera but here is a great...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 21 minutes ago
- RudigerVT
  Well. This choice seems natural, almost inevitable. And perfect. Along with Dessì, the great Italian prima donnae of an era.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 55 minutes ago
- TC
  What? No detailed review delivered fresh to their 5-year-old at home? Imagine! But what I'm really trying to imagine is my parents giving their 15-year-old tickets to see anyone...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 1 hour ago
- rapt
  I don't get this--why admiring a singer based only on recordings is necessarily a sign of a fad. If so, I have a similar faddish admiration for Bergonzi, Corelli, Schipa, and a number of...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 1 hour ago
- Sylvia K
  someone on twitter said this show looks and sounds like a cutaway gag on 30 Rock -- seems like that about sums it up
  
  From California to the New York island · 2 hours ago
- Damianjb1
  Definitely old school. 1980's and early 90's
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Ivy Lin · 2 hours ago
- oedipe
  Exactly. It looks to me like the recent Parterre infatuation with Vanzo is more of a fad than a result of personal experience. Not that he wasn’t quite good, but that people here didn’t have much...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 2 hours ago
- Camille
  Hahahaha!! Sort of like Samson. We can only hope and pray! This time I’ll see it. Didn’t see the first two acts when we went last time. I bow my head and accept my fate about La Watusi. At least...
  
  Fathered in · 2 hours ago
- Laura Amorosa
  Camille!!!!!!!! I wanted to post this! I was about to make the submission :) I saw her live in 2001 in Bologna in this.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 2 hours ago
- Camille
  Shoulda won for *Third Man*! Schade.
  https://www.youtube.com/wat...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 2 hours ago
- trevor
  Now THAT'S a Te Deum!
  
  Fathered in · 2 hours ago
- Camille
  Then — Thank your Mother for me for not only having good sense but good taste. She must still have had quite a lot of force and ability left at that time to pull those both off, I must say. They’re...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 2 hours ago
- kennedet
  PB is a great place to read exciting and enjoy riveting reviews and overall stimulating conversations. Many thanks Mister Snow for the presenting the continuing conversation after the Carousel...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 2 hours ago
- NPW--Paris
  You called?
  We needed you yesterday, when the subject of modern architecture in Genova was raised.
  
  Fathered in · 2 hours ago
- Mr. Portafiori
  Thank you for the post. Wonderful performance. My first Lucrezia was Beverly Sills. I fell in love with the opera and thought she was exciting. I grew up with NYCO. I first saw her Stuarda at the...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 2 hours ago
- Gualtier Maldè
  It was Constantine Orbelian and his then Moscow Chamber Orchestra who presented the Medée at Carnegie Hall. Irini Tsirakidis had plenty of oomph as Ermione in a blazing concert version. By the time...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Harry Rose · 2 hours ago