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- Cornelia
  Didn't she only work at the Met for two or three years? Of course she would need a work permit, but that's not impossible with the support of a $300 million arts institution's hiring...
  
  Il barbiere di Siviglia · 7 hours ago
- Dogbert7
  It's on youtube. It's been ages since I saw the film. I'd forgotten that they go to the opera.
  Now where are we? I suppose she's meant to be going mad. Where's...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Armerjacquino · 8 hours ago
- Astyanax Spumante
  Yes, but a brilliant idea.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Armerjacquino · 8 hours ago
- Krunoslav
  " she can be considered Anglo-American."
  Maybe by you.
  And is the ONP casting department determining the number of French titles heard?
  
  Il barbiere di Siviglia · 9 hours ago
- Le Petit Yniold
  All I remember about her Puritani is that she was forgettable..
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Armerjacquino · 9 hours ago
- Belfagor
  Movie style plots are probably demanded by companies to give hesitant subscribers something to latch on to…….
  
  Humdrum existence · 9 hours ago
- RudigerVT
  I feel as though I have to try very, very hard to focus on the things Dessay brings (or brought) to the dance. Which were many, by many accounts. She had a great physique de rôle for the parts she...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Armerjacquino · 9 hours ago
- Sylvia K
  Different strokes for different folks of course but I actually really love Mazzoli's work and find specifically her orchestration to be incredible, powerful, and musical, in this piece and in...
  
  Humdrum existence · 9 hours ago
- oedipe
  In order to work for an extended period of time in the US, she needed a (hard to get) long term work permit, or a green card, which would make her an American resident. So yes, she can be...
  
  Il barbiere di Siviglia · 10 hours ago
- Niel Rishoi
  More lunar, vulnerable, and haunting.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Armerjacquino · 10 hours ago
- Le Petit Yniold
  I'm with you on less Puccini, but I am not enough of a bel canto fan to go the rest of the way. Certain works, yes, but there are a lot of things from other times/places that I would like to hear...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Armerjacquino · 10 hours ago
- Belfagor
  Thanks for this detailed review - I haven’t seen this, but having endured one and a half operas, and two orchestral pieces (including the ugliest violin concerto on the planet), she is known as...
  
  Humdrum existence · 10 hours ago
- Belfagor
  …..mere corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to etc etc!
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Armerjacquino · 10 hours ago
- thenoctambulist
  i would love those two too! but not with less Lucias! Maybe less Puccini and fill the slots with more bel canto.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Armerjacquino · 10 hours ago
- rapt
  And the (few) examples of the alleged wit I've come across seem a bit mean-spirited rather than amusing--again, suggesting discomfort of some sort--e.g., someone who just loves to sing what...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol · 11 hours ago
- grimoaldo2
  Thank you!
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Armerjacquino · 11 hours ago
- MyraNormand.
  A great listen and so true about the way keys create particular colors. The regnava really sounds different.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Armerjacquino · 11 hours ago
- NPW--Paris
  The ice cream thing is intriguing. They sit outside at a café by the harbour. But if Flaubert himself saw the Rouen premiere in 1839, it would have been at the end of December.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Armerjacquino · 11 hours ago
- Mr. Portafiori
  I was never a fan of Peretyatko I thought she was a poor mans Soprano very second rate. Saw her Lucia and Puritani did not like either.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Armerjacquino · 12 hours ago
- Niel Rishoi
  Well that, too...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Armerjacquino · 12 hours ago

belting

“I am the girl with golden hair”

“I am the girl with golden hair”

Questo e Quello

“I am the girl with golden hair”

At last weekend’s Opus Klassik Awards, Diana Damrau sings ABBA (with Juan Diego Flòrez among the backup artists.)

By La Cieca on October 19, 2018 at 10:35 AM

la cieca ci guarda, Questo e Quello

“Let her go!”

In this new work, entitled Can Belto, a group of terrorists kidnap and hold hostage Broadway diva Idina Menzel.

By La Cieca on October 18, 2015 at 1:20 PM

On the origin of speechless

On the origin of speechless

Questo e Quello

On the origin of speechless

On this day in 1833 Charles Darwin rode a horse to Buenos Aires.

By WindyCityOperaman on September 20, 2015 at 11:18 AM

Questo e Quello

And I am telling you I am not belting

By La Cieca on November 23, 2009 at 7:59 AM

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