To be clear, I don't disagree with any of that but I find I enjoy the music less when I have to watch the whole thing. Personal opinion.
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 4 minutes ago
I really enjoy Puritani just musically and vocally it can be gorgeous. The duet with Elvira and Georgio, Son virginea vezzoza, Elvira’s mad scene, the duet Suoni La Tromba and the whole final duet...
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 10 minutes ago
I would have done the same! The costume was originally gold lamé….she would have looked like Ronald McDonald with her red hair and gold-colored costume. She reportedly requested a costume change to...
I checked: it was Damrau.
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 19 minutes ago
Interesting. You'd think that given the year (1969) that Horne would have recommended Sutherland for Pamira and not Sills as Horne had sung with Sutherland many times by that point in time....
But sometimes, when you have a great cast, you find yourself thinking ‘Shame not to have them in a better work.’
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 29 minutes ago
wouldn't mind hearing this live!
Yes, so you didn't say anything about Allen premiering anything, and you called it a 2022 play, just as I said.
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 39 minutes ago
Relax.
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 40 minutes ago
It doesn't read like that.
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 40 minutes ago
Here's the exact post: "Game of Thrones’ Alfie Allen made his Broadway debut in Martin McDonough’s 2022 play, Hangmen, opposite David Threfall, 20 years after his Broadway debut as Smike...
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 40 minutes ago
I'm sorry, but there's a hell of a lot of projection in that post. I have never criticized you for not writing about London. I said that a show that has been successful outside New York doesn't...
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 42 minutes ago
Or, better yet, why don't you do your own daily posts about London and West End Theater? I know nothing about them and I'd find that interesting to read about, as would others, I'm...
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 42 minutes ago
Not Nora Gubisch, this time.
Bryan Hymel dropped out. That I noted.
(Edit:) Damrau. We lucked out.
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 44 minutes ago
She replaced someone else, right? Can't recall who.
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 45 minutes ago
There's a difference between supplementing info and being nasty. Saying " It’s not a complicated point so it’s weird you can’t see it" is insulting. And any time you want to take...
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 46 minutes ago
No nastiness intended, and indeed you should point me to where you think it's occurred. When I 'supplemented info' the other day you responded by sarcastically parroting back what I...
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 52 minutes ago
Thank goodness she was in that Paris Huguenots.
Indeed, ‘“Thank goodness for the girls" I thought at the end of act two.’
I quit at the second interval, though.
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 54 minutes ago
Which is why I will be happy to listen to it (the good parts, anyway) at home.
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 56 minutes ago
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