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- 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 · 0 minutes ago
- Le Petit Yniold
  And why not post Júlia...?
  
  Peter Seiffert 1954-2025 · 1 minute 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 minute ago
- Le Petit Yniold
  I have rarely hated a film as much as Breaking the Wind.
  
  Humdrum existence · 7 minutes ago
- NPW--Paris
  https://youtu.be/_Se0d3spD5o?si=Os1_mbR2yAT9_qdm
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from rapt · 8 minutes ago
- Le Petit Yniold
  Television is a much better medium for adapting novels, at least if one wants to be faithful to them. Otherwise, one has to narrow the focus considerably.
  
  Humdrum existence · 9 minutes ago
- 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 · 13 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 · 22 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 · 24 minutes ago
- NPW--Paris
  It was stifling in that closet.
  
  Bachelor party · 28 minutes ago
- CCorwinNYC
  Saluting Nigel's bravery today. 🫡
  
  Bachelor party · 32 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 · 47 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 · 53 minutes ago
- NPW--Paris
  It's already started, at 8 pm here.
  
  Lucia di Lammermoor · 56 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