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- NPW--Paris
  There’s an attempt to explain the various versions here, in French:
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 0 minutes 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 · 1 hour 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 · 1 hour ago
- Bianca Castafiore
  Who are these people you refer to?
  
  C’est une vraie voix · 1 hour 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 · 3 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 · 5 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 · 5 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 · 5 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 · 5 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 · 6 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 · 7 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 · 8 hours ago
- Krunoslav
  Del Monaco as Tonio
  Christoff as Sulpice
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Belle Raggio · 9 hours ago
- Bianca Castafiore
  Yes, Paris and the French did not like women en travesti playing men, so Néocles had to be a tenor, not a contralto (the irony being that contralti/mezzos were replacing castrati). Can you tell me...
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 9 hours ago
- AB
  Say their name! Say their name!
  
  Dies magna et amara valde · 9 hours ago
- JoAnn Kulesza
  Peter, the arts.world owes you and Stephen endless gratitude for WCO and for all YOU have done to further and educate the Vocal World over your lifetime. Your vast knowledge of opera, singers and...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Peter Russell · 9 hours ago
- Gualtier Maldè
  For the French version "Le Siège de Corinthe" Rossini changed the location, the names of the characters and the vocal distribution. The contralto role of Calbo in "Maometto II"...
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 10 hours ago
- PCally
  Wasn’t able to listen to the entire thing but I liked Sills more than I had anticipated for that point in her career. Her ornamentation drove me nuts, but I thought she was in strong shape. Verrett...
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 10 hours ago
- Lohenfal
  Yes, Rossini himself made many changes in the music of his French revision, but at least they're his own. The Schippers goes back and forth between the 2 scores, along with some interpolations...
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 10 hours ago
- CanBelto
  And in real life, Philip was in his 30s and Carlos was kind of creepy, no?
  
  C’est une vraie voix · 10 hours ago

Scott C. Morgan

Chicago-based Scott C. Morgan is an avid opera and theatergoer. He is a frequent freelance contributor to the Windy City Times, and previously served as that publication's freelance theater editor from 2008 to 2018. He also worked primarily as an arts writer for the Daily Herald in suburban Chicago from 2004 to 2022. He has raised donations as an endurance race runner for AIDS Foundation Chicago via its charity training program Team to End AIDS from 2011 to 2023, and also co-hosted two Opera Tunes fundraisers at Chicago's famed Sidetrack Video Bar in 2019.

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