“It started out as something of a dinner party crowd-pleaser.”
I’ll be seeing one of her debut Marschallins in Paris in a month. Hopefully more hit than miss.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 minute ago
Perhaps I should go and see her Wigmore recital in September. Other than a Jewel Song on radio 3 a year or 2 back, with a very glaring and insecure top b, I don't think I've heard her at all, even...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 minute ago
When I was a student at CSU Long Beach in the ‘70s, Nolan Van Way was on the voice faculty as well as Sara McFerrin (Bobby’s mom). Alas, I did not have the opportunity to study with either of then....
A favorite Donizetti performance from Cornelia · 7 minutes ago
I'm just glad Gens is still active, even if she seems pretty hit and miss.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 13 minutes ago
Lovely interview - always love being reminded at how wide ranging her repertoire has been.
As a sound I think I like her mid-late 1960s recordings of stuff like Adalgisa (in the studio, the performance I've heard where she sings it in the original keys live is a struggle) and the...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 44 minutes ago
I'm less sure about that one, but happy to give her the benefit of the doubt, based on what I've read from other people on here. On paper I'd rather have an actual current contralto...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 48 minutes ago
Yeah, I know what you mean, and her early San Francisco years sort of prove your point. I think of Marie in Wozzeck as an outlier because I think as long as a voice is big enough, it can succeed...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 50 minutes ago
Gens as Irene.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 56 minutes ago
Lewek as Elettra is a nice piece of casting, and Leah Hawkins for Tosca.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 59 minutes ago
I agree completely but my only real knowledge of her as a soprano are Wagner excerpts where she sounds wrong but not in terms of the timbre per se.. The soprano roles you've listed I...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago
Don't you think that about literally all her soprano roles though? I do. It's really mystifying how she ever went in that direction - the available stuff I've heard (Mimi,...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago
New La Monnaie season (scroll down) Keenlyside as Falstaff. Sally Matthews as Norma.:
https://www.lamonnaiedemunt.be/fr/program
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago
I heard that persons in the audience gasped when Caballe pulled out her trademark pianissimo in her big opening aria. Yep, there are times when a star is born.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago
Does anyone know how this live performance was recorded? Was there a radio broadcast? Regardless, I am glad somebody captured it.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago
Thrilled to see your nom de guerre La Fatale. Your treasured appearances, rare as they are, thrill and delight. Goddess bless you for your submission! Now I have something marvelous to occupy my...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago
Weird that Horne was the original Lucrezia cast. I understand she was doing soprano rep at that time and there's probably nothing in score she couldn't have handled. Still can't...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 1 hour ago
I'm going to take the papal legate's aria to my next lesson, just for you.
Agree that the RCA recording, even with a wonderful cast, does not come close to this historic live event. Some performances just can't be duplicated. And, bless the pirates for souvenirs like...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Dawn Fatale · 2 hours ago
“It started out as something of a dinner party crowd-pleaser.”
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