And here's the complete Carnegie Hall performance https://youtu.be/RWftFTTyWPk?si=Lz-GpCmnpymvCnvu
A favorite Donizetti performance from Angela Meade · 12 minutes ago
Ilene Sharaff’s life partner deserves mention; https://gomag.com/article/queer-women-history-forgot-mai-mai-sze/...
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 14 minutes ago
There will be a Parterre Review but I'm unsure which performance they will be attending.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Angela Meade · 16 minutes ago
Oedipe, with such (incessant) remarks, you would turn the greatest admirer of French culture into someone who runs away screaming at the slightest hint about France and the French. Hm. Maybe...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Angela Meade · 27 minutes ago
An inspired choice, Grimoaldo. She's a terrific actress as well as a great singer.
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 29 minutes ago
Daniel Oren, Israeli ya know. And one of the highlights of his career at the Israeli Opera is conducting Nabucco at Masada with Dimitra Theodossiou and Paata Burchuladze
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 31 minutes ago
ON Broadway and maybe elsewhere on this date: Sheridan’s The Rivals played Broadway for the first time in 1778. Unlike some other plays of the period, IBDB doesn’t have a cast list. Famed Scottish...
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 40 minutes ago
What do you expect from French shit (TM) ?
Still going Back and forth about going forth and back?
A favorite Donizetti performance from Angela Meade · 4 hours ago
It was the Whitsun weekend. I wanted an extra day off and my boss wouldn`t give it to me being nasty as usual. So I became sick and he called up on Tuesday morning at home and my grandmother...
My favourite is Caballe singing this scene in Venice. The madness comes through effectively. I haven't found the 1965 version yet.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Angela Meade · 6 hours ago
It must have been in the spring, as I remember the daffodils people threw on to the stage made it slippery for the singers.
I heard one of those performances as well at the Opera Comique. I went to Paris for a long weekend at the invitation of a man whom I met in Pesaro the previous summer. He got tickets for the Fille,...
Enjoy your trip - sounds better than taking the train to Omaha!
A favorite Donizetti performance from Angela Meade · 7 hours ago
She was great!!
A favorite Donizetti performance from Angela Meade · 9 hours ago
Thanks for the clip of Murphy. I saw Murphy three times as well. I loved her as Dolly.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Angela Meade · 10 hours ago
Why was Pamina's costume so padded?
yes, Carnegie Hall this May
A favorite Donizetti performance from Angela Meade · 12 hours ago
Opera singer. Or at least I was, but the training remains
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