Beverly Sills and Renée Fleming perform 30 years apart the same work with the same orchestra in the same venue!
Lately I’ve been loving listening to Régine Crespin, prompting Trove Thursday to celebrate the great French soprano with private in-house recordings of two of her important non-Met North American appearances.
“Trove Thursday” offers a Der Fliegende Holländer from New York City Opera featuring the underrated American soprano Johanna Meier.
Sills at the peak of her powers and Handel’s 1743 secular oratorio make a perfect match.
In attempting to get a little bit of everything onto my Mixcloud page, I realized that I inadvertently neglected some essentials: 1) Leyla Gencer 2) La Gioconda.
Among the many reasons La Cieca has to be thankful: the legacy of Mike Richter on his CD-ROMs.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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