Some filth or dementia from Moe Rear
That this performance of Verdi’s Lady Macbeth was recorded and preserved for posterity is beyond the pale.
By Moe Rear
167 comments
The Talk of the Town
Some filth or dementia from Ivy Lin
Dementia and filth in the same clip!
Some filth or dementia from Harry Rose
Not really sure what was going on here.
Some filth or dementia from Mat Hal
Who doesn’t love a slightly murky archival recording?
By Mat Hal
62 comments
Some filth or dementia from Peter Russell
Ma che brutta figura per la lirica!
By Peter Russell
60 comments
Some filth or dementia from Mister Snow
I sort of have a love/hate fascination with countertenors/male falsettists.
By Mister Snow
66 comments
Some filth or dementia from Myra Norman
Karina Gauvin slays for the slayed. Werk Bitch.
By Myra Norman
30 comments
Zubin Mehta is a great opera conductor
Zubin Mehta was a major part of musical life when I moved to Southern California in 1969, having started his tenure as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
By Mister Snow
110 comments
Bernard Herrmann was a great opera conductor
It is no wonder Bernard Herrmann relishes the wistful lyricism in Barber’s masterwork, as Herrmann’s score for Vertigo is among the most beautiful and haunting of all film scores ever composed.
By Darby Fegan
103 comments
Lorenzo Molajoli was a great opera conductor
Lorenzo Molajoli is a mysterious figure.
Maurice Abravanel was a great opera conductor
Based on exactly one recording, Maurice Abravanel is my favorite opera conductor.
By Remko Jas
45 comments
Riccardo Muti is a great opera conductor
I trust, fellow Parterre readers, that we can all agree that Riccardo Muti is a great opera conductor.
John Barbirolli was a great opera conductor
Fifty some years ago I stumbled on to John Barbirolli‘s recording of matchless Elgar & V-Williams music for strings and discovered my go-to conductor for life.
By TC
39 comments
Antonio Pappano is a great opera conductor
Antonio Pappano‘s versatility in both German and Italian repertoire and beyond is both rare and impressive.
Dimitri Mitropoulos was a great opera conductor
Whether an opera by Puccini, Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, or Berg, Dimitri Mitropoulos brought to the podium a total understanding and love for each score he touched.
By Moe Rear
56 comments
Rudolf Kempe was a great opera conductor
I am once again going to laud the classic Rudolf Kempe commercial recording of Lohengrin (which I have lauded overall) for its conducting.
By La Grunowa
65 comments
Roger Norrington was a great opera conductor
Roger Norrington conducted Rossini’s Semiramide in Pesaro ’94 and made the Orchestra part of the drama in a way I still have never heard duplicated in a Bel Canto opera.
By Belle Raggio
59 comments
Fabio Luisi is a great opera conductor
Many years ago, when the Met was deciding who the next principal conductor/music director was going to be, it seemed to be a tie between YN-S and Fabio Luisi.
By Rowna Sutin
82 comments
Pierre Monteux was a great opera conductor
Pierre Monteux‘s career defies time.
Daniel Barenboim is a great opera conductor
Daniel Barenboim’s Tristan und Isolde is a performance I keep coming back to, again and again.
By Domingo Hindoyan
82 comments
Seiji Ozawa was a great opera conductor
I first experienced the magic of Seiji Ozawa in 1972 when I was 12 years old.
By TildyDiva
43 comments
Fausto Cleva was a great opera conductor
Fausto Cleva, in this glorious Fanciulla from the old Met, demonstrates all the great skills of opera conducting
Giuseppe Patanè was a great opera conductor
I think Patanè did far more than just hold it together: he did full honor to Verdi.
By Peter Russell
26 comments
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).