Thank you!
A favorite Donizetti performance from Leyla Gender-Bender · 2 minutes ago
Oh, did you, AS? Will go look it out!
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 2 minutes ago
There are lots of people who look to opera for reassurance and continuity. They want to know that the experience will be more or less the same, no matter how unpredictable the world is. Such people...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 4 minutes ago
I'd only half seen (from a score desk) the Zeff version, which was so barnacle-encrusted on every surface. Apparently some find this to be a reassuring way to stage grand opera.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 12 minutes ago
I didn't see it. My sense is that I probably would have liked it more than most did.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 17 minutes ago
Got it, thank you.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 18 minutes ago
Agreed! I posted my thoughts about it in yesterday's chat.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 18 minutes ago
I really sort of loved Bondy's Tosca, but probably because it was the start of my ongoing fan-boy crush on Sondra. The brutal simplicity of the production focused my attention on her--as it...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 19 minutes ago
Oh hey — thanks!! Very interesting and shall take a look when possible. Always so much fun to discover something new! It does say that Signor Lablache had a somewhat extensive range, and that his...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Harry Rose · 20 minutes ago
Joke fail, Inspector Javert!
Ma quanto son cretina!!
A favorite Donizetti performance from Ortrud Jones · 23 minutes ago
Aha — and that is interesting. Do you base this on your practical experience of singing it or is this more a generalised observation of a few operas? N low notes like Baron Ochs, I take it?
A favorite Donizetti performance from Harry Rose · 24 minutes ago
In verità!! Thanks for digging this old bone up from the Gray Lady Graveyard. I wish it would have been more thrilling than it was, but it wasn’t. Perhaps a primadonna with more oomph would have...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Harry Rose · 26 minutes ago
oy, he really does sound gorgeous.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 27 minutes ago
Yes, Sanfordissimo, I spied it and am glad you are on duty and promptly posted it, as that is my favourite recorded Lucrezia. But I was not there, and cannot see it, as we all may with...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 32 minutes ago
She did a very good Carmen at Glimmerglass and I while I didn't agree with her take on Bluebeard's Castle at BLO, I could respected what she was doing. I didn't see Handmaid's...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 34 minutes ago
My mistake, with apologies to Harry et. al.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Leyla Gender-Bender · 36 minutes ago
That complete 1965 Carnegie Hall performance is posted below.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 37 minutes ago
Good.
A good cry is hard to find these days, as all my tears have frozen — a lot like Picasso’s women. .
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 37 minutes ago
That’s the ending from 1840, the revised one which Donizetti absolutely and resolutely wanted done — shorn of coloratura hysterics. The way Caballé sings it in her celeberrimo début is this...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 39 minutes ago
Did anyone attend Carnegie Hall last night for the reading of JS Bach’s St John Passion with Orchestra of Saint Luke and Labadie, et al.? It turned into a big discovery and a most felicitous one at...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 41 minutes ago
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