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- 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 · 42 minutes 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 · 49 minutes 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 · 1 hour ago
- Cornelia
  Sounds fun, though Idomeneo always sounds fun to me.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 2 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 · 2 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 · 3 hours ago
- Camille
  Very, very interesting, indeed. Thanks.
  
  Die Sterne des Himmels werden zur Erde fallen · 3 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 · 3 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 · 3 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 · 3 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 · 4 hours ago
- scott grunow
  No, it's me
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 4 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 · 4 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 · 4 hours ago
- Camille
  I want LAKMÊ, and right away!
  Hoping I live to 2028, sigh!
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 4 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 · 4 hours ago
- Camille
  Don’want NO COVER!! Unless it’s Rachvelishvili!
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 4 hours ago
- Camille
  Bon voyage and happy landings to La Grunowa, and don’t forget that whip!
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 4 hours ago
- Camille
  It’s just been posted for only three weeks now so is brand spanking new! Never found the courage to watch that former old grainy and watery green one which had been up so long, so was I happy to...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 4 hours ago
- Niel Rishoi
  Hi CK - she was fairly consistent in Italy in the 80s - Lucia at LA scala and Firenze, sonnambula in Napoli 84, Gilda I think at the Comunale (infamous Lyubimov production), Donna Anna opening...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 5 hours ago