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- Armerjacquino
  This canard that everyone is suddenly singing Norma is making me laugh. It’s just absolutely nothing new. Margaret Price sang it. Scotto sang it. Eaglen sang it. Sills. It’s sung by Fiordiligis and...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Armerjacquino · 1 hour ago
- 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 · 8 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 · 9 hours ago
- Astyanax Spumante
  Yes, but a brilliant idea.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Armerjacquino · 9 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 · 10 hours ago
- Le Petit Yniold
  All I remember about her Puritani is that she was forgettable..
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Armerjacquino · 10 hours ago
- Belfagor
  Movie style plots are probably demanded by companies to give hesitant subscribers something to latch on to…….
  
  Humdrum existence · 10 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 · 10 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 · 10 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 · 11 hours ago
- Niel Rishoi
  More lunar, vulnerable, and haunting.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Armerjacquino · 11 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 · 11 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 · 11 hours ago
- Belfagor
  …..mere corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to etc etc!
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Armerjacquino · 11 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 · 12 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 · 12 hours ago
- grimoaldo2
  Thank you!
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Armerjacquino · 12 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 · 12 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 · 12 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 · 13 hours ago

biopics

I’m in the mood for adulation

I’m in the mood for adulation

Breaking

I’m in the mood for adulation

The first clip of Pablo Larraín‘s Maria Callas biopic staring Angelina Jolie has been released

By parterre box on August 28, 2024 at 12:05 PM

Inside of you there are two Marias

Inside of you there are two Marias

Callas, in the news, this diva looks like that diva

Inside of you there are two Marias

“The first two images of Angelina Jolie as famed diva Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s upcoming biopic Maria have been revealed”

By parterre box on October 09, 2023 at 1:15 PM

Questo e Quello

Artistic license

By La Cieca on August 06, 2010 at 2:54 PM

Questo e Quello

Glitter and be Green

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