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- NPW--Paris
  I went to Breaking the Waves in Paris two years ago. 'Missy Mazzoli's score is anything but challenging, which may help explain its relatively wide acceptance. It has obvious...
  
  Humdrum existence · 3 minutes ago
- Roberto
  I too heard Raimondi with Crespin in Tosca and agree with your assessment. A really beautiful voice and elegant singer. A good idea of his capabilities is provided by the Karajan-Zeffirelli Boheme...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from rapt · 12 minutes ago
- Le Petit Yniold
  I'm not sure how clever the Moby-Dick movie music was. I felt like I had heard it all before. The Ainadamar libretto barely qualified as such. The only reason for Nuria to be there at all was...
  
  Humdrum existence · 14 minutes ago
- NPW--Paris
  It was stifling in that closet.
  
  Bachelor party · 18 minutes ago
- CCorwinNYC
  Saluting Nigel's bravery today. 🫡
  
  Bachelor party · 22 minutes ago
- NPW--Paris
  This singing isn't going to win Lucia any fans. The BBC has a Missa Solemnis, I think I'll give that a try.
  
  Lucia di Lammermoor · 37 minutes ago
- NPW--Paris
  Interesting confession. On the whole, I'd rather leave than take any Donizetti, except for one work: La Fille du Régiment, the only one I go to with any expectation of enjoyment. But I...
  
  Bachelor party · 43 minutes ago
- NPW--Paris
  It's already started, at 8 pm here.
  
  Lucia di Lammermoor · 46 minutes ago
- Sanford Schimel
  I saw Kraus as Hoffmann in CHicago with Welting, MAsterson, and Zschau, plus Victoria Vergara, Florindo Andreoli, and Norman Mittleman. The performance was awesome.
  
  Bachelor party · 1 hour ago
- Sylvia K
  Clever pseudo film music is exactly how I felt at the Met's production of Jake Hegge's Moby Dick. I think it is to Mazzoli's credit that there is basically nothing filmic at all...
  
  Humdrum existence · 1 hour ago
- Sanford Schimel
  https://youtu.be/tqYHJjLfKwM?si=Gtk7nzFdDU-dOgB9
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from rapt · 1 hour ago
- Sanford Schimel
  Speaking of mispronouncing things, I learned recently that I've been saying Bulgari all wrong. It's BULL-guh-ree, not bull-GAH-ree. Oops.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from rapt · 1 hour ago
- Sanford Schimel
  Banas also appeared in several major movie musicals, including Carousel, Rock Around the Clock, The King and I, Annie Get Your Gun, Damn Yankees, L'il Abner, West Side Story, The Unsinkable...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from rapt · 1 hour ago
- H_Badger
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  Lucia di Lammermoor · 1 hour ago
- Sanford Schimel
  IN theater on this date: The first show to open on this date was New York As It Is in 1848. Mrs. J.B. Booth, Jr. starred. That would be Harriet, wife of Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. Oliver Goldsmith’s...
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from rapt · 1 hour ago
- Le Petit Yniold
  There are exceptions, of course, but the best libretti are often based on good but not great source material. If it is too good, music adds nothing and if it is terrible, the music is burdened....
  
  Humdrum existence · 1 hour ago
- NPW--Paris
  You should have been behind the couple who, for no reason I could conceive of, mocked and practically heckled her Zerbinetta in Jean-Louis Martinoty's memorable production at the Opéra Comique...
  
  Bachelor party · 2 hours ago
- NPW--Paris
  We've discussed this before: hers was definitely one of those voices that's much less satisfactory in her recordings (which I rarely listened to, for that reason) than in the house....
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Armerjacquino · 2 hours ago
- CCorwinNYC
  Taddei turned 70 a month after today's Pasquale.
  
  Bachelor party · 2 hours ago
- Belfagor
  Well, that is often a problem with many recent pieces based on illustrious sources - you remember the text and not the music. I think non-narrative can be risky, simply because opera is an assault,...
  
  Humdrum existence · 2 hours ago