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- Rick
  Does any of you know when Mr Seiffert performed for the last time?
  
  Peter Seiffert 1954-2025 · 2 minutes ago
- Gualtier Maldè
  Also a mention of Franz Grundheber who is currently 87 and sang Schigolch at the Met at age 77 in 2015. I caught the cinema HD repeat and Herr Grundheber was in the audience taking in his own...
  
  Bachelor party · 11 minutes ago
- Krunoslav
  No, they liked Welting and my dad said Schmidt was excellent, up there with Troyanos.
  
  Bachelor party · 26 minutes ago
- NPW--Paris
  I'm quite happy just to read them.
  
  Humdrum existence · 29 minutes ago
- NPW--Paris
  Umm... It isn't a long-lost competitor to Pelléas. It's a 1913 féerie, premiered just nine months before war broke out, revived by Les Frivolités Parisiennes, who are...
  
  Humdrum existence · 33 minutes ago
- Krunoslav
  Thanks for your post!
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from rapt · 34 minutes ago
- Krunoslav
  Besides Tommy Rall and Brenda Lewis, Café Crown featured one other NYCO singer: Monte Amundsen,.a/k/a Mrs Giorgio Tozzi. This links Tozzi's AIDA recording colleague Zinka Milanov to...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from rapt · 36 minutes ago
- NPW--Paris
  Yes, Trudeliese Schmidt. Bacchus was Peter Lindroos.
  Might your parents have exclaimed in French? Perhaps it was them.
  
  Bachelor party · 38 minutes ago
- Le Petit Yniold
  About which I know nothing. Should I...?
  
  Humdrum existence · 39 minutes ago
- quoth the maven
  I envy you having seen Kraus as Ernesto. I was in the city at that point, but the prospect of Sills, acting "cute", kept me decisively out the theater.
  
  Bachelor party · 46 minutes ago
- NPW--Paris
  I've mentioned this quite recently: it's maddening - to me if to nobody else - that the Paris Opera no longer publishes attendance figures per opera, so we can really see whether...
  
  Humdrum existence · 48 minutes ago
- Krunoslav
  Was that with Trudeliese Schmidt as the Komponist? I think my parents were there- as Camille said, they did get around..
  
  Bachelor party · 53 minutes ago
- NPW--Paris
  Ah yes, I saw Fourdrain's Les Contes de Perrault the day before yesterday.
  
  Humdrum existence · 1 hour ago
- grimoaldo2
  Oooh! Thank you for the Pasquale with The Greatest Thing Ever! I haven't heard that. What a treat!
  
  Bachelor party · 1 hour ago
- Le Petit Yniold
  When the shoe fits....
  
  Humdrum existence · 1 hour ago
- Le Petit Yniold
  Even without Meier (whom I was not fortunate enough to catch). it was a very strong revival.
  
  Peter Seiffert 1954-2025 · 1 hour ago
- Le Petit Yniold
  Forever unmemorable...isn't that an oxymoron? "I will always remember how forgettable she was. Absolutely the most forgettable I ever heard!"
  
  Peter Seiffert 1954-2025 · 1 hour ago
- GCMP
  This may sound like damming with faint praise, and perhaps it is. The Listeners is a better modern opera than just about all the other ones we have been subjected to in Chicago since Covid. But...
  
  Humdrum existence · 1 hour ago
- Le Petit Yniold
  And why not post Júlia...?
  
  Peter Seiffert 1954-2025 · 1 hour ago
- NPW--Paris
  As you might guess, I haven't seen it. When there are film references in operas or productions (e.g. Warlikowski's), I have to Google to elucidate them. It's funny, I always want to...
  
  Humdrum existence · 1 hour ago