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- Williams
  Wonderful choice Ms. Meade and delighted by your presence here.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Angela Meade · 4 minutes ago
- Bianca Castafiore
  One thing is to know what you want and to have a strong personality. Another is to be a pain in the tuchus.
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 24 minutes ago
- sonderb4rding
  Staatsoper Berlin has dropped RWS's full Casta Diva. I hear a very talented singer being trapped by a dysfunctional technique.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Belle Raggio · 32 minutes ago
- sonderb4rding
  she was very very good! not an old lady but actually younger than Nylund. some makeup would have helped with that stage picture but she sang it very well
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Belle Raggio · 35 minutes ago
- Dr. Hodel
  Not to mention the story about Sills taking scissors to the gown made for Scotto and shredding it to force Scala to make a new costume for her in a color that didn't clash with her strawberry...
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 51 minutes ago
- Nelly della Vittoria
  I think Fletcher meant hautboy anyway, knowing him.
  
  C’est une vraie voix · 1 hour ago
- oedipe
  For the sake of comparison, here is Kurzak, in the same staging but in the Italian version. She gives a very different interpretation of Tu che le vanita (with arguably less voice than Rebeka, but...
  
  C’est une vraie voix · 1 hour ago
- NPW--Paris
  There’s an attempt to explain the various versions here, in French, supported by a diagram using colour codes…
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 1 hour ago
- Bianca Castafiore
  You know what else is really confusing about the various versions of Maometto and Le Siège? The original work was set in the 1400’s, Le Siège in the 1800’s (contemporary with its creation), yet...
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 2 hours ago
- Bianca Castafiore
  Well, in reality, Carlo was very far from being a hot boy. Schiller’s account was a romantic invention if you know those real characters.
  
  C’est une vraie voix · 2 hours ago
- Bianca Castafiore
  Who are these people you refer to?
  
  C’est une vraie voix · 2 hours ago
- Bianca Castafiore
  Grazie, Gualtier. This is shocking to hear. Well, as I commented in the other thread, I’ve always had a negative image from her TV persona and this only confirms it. The upside of this is that...
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 4 hours ago
- Krunoslav
  The Dinah in that B;wat TROUBLE IN TAHITI was Alice Ghostley of BEWITCHED and other television fame. Sam was John Tyers, a NYC0 singer who sang one (1) Dr Falke at the Met and many more on its...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Belle Raggio · 6 hours ago
- TildyDiva
  TC, you are wonderful to mention Richard T. Gill's incredible Rocco and Sparafucile. He gave my mother a book he had written about economics during one of those productions, and it is still in...
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 7 hours ago
- TildyDiva
  TC, thank you for mentioning Theyard's memorable Don Jose in the Portland Opera Carmen. As you know, I had my Portland Opera debut in the "pivotal" role of banner carrying...
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 7 hours ago
- Krunoslav
  That arch-snob Rasponi wrote that Grob-Prabdl looked like "a British matron of excellent background."
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Belle Raggio · 7 hours ago
- Lohenfal
  Ideally, the Met would've presented both versions, as you suggest, keeping each intact. That would've been a better solution than the much criticized conflation they did present. Since...
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 7 hours ago
- scott grunow
  I love the name Margaret Plummer. It sounds like the name of a respectable 1950s British housewife from Sussex.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Belle Raggio · 9 hours ago
- Gualtier Maldè
  The first account was in Horne's autobiography. Pamira at La Scala was scheduled to be Renata Scotto, who got pregnant and had to drop out. Marilyn Horne was the one who suggested Sills to the...
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 9 hours ago
- Krunoslav
  Del Monaco as Tonio
  Christoff as Sulpice
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Belle Raggio · 10 hours ago