I (rightly) blocked that production from my memory.
Now that it's about her records, I think she's a different matter than when she truly trod the boards. I regret having missed her as it's clear she both inspired and fully inhabited...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Armerjacquino · 19 minutes ago
I twice heard Hans Hotter at 80 sing a remarkable Schigolch opposite Ann Panagulias and Evelyn Lear at San Francisco Opera.
Fascinating re: Welting and Gruberová. And you know what a fan I am of Johanna Meier and Troyanos. Alan Titus I only saw once -- he was a dashing Danilo opposite Mary Costa for the Oregon Light...
this was also my favorite. That whole afternoon was such a gift during that time.
Welting's Zerbinetta was indeed spectacular-- and also engaging, vulnerable and funny. So when I saw Gruberová in the same staging 3 years later- with Johanna Meier and Tatiana Troyanos, both...
Thank you Chris for these selections and particularly for highlighting Ruth Welting. I have never heard her as Norina so I'm intrigued. I has posted about her superlative Olympia at the Met. I...
Thank you Krunoslav for this post. I envy you seeing Kraus as Ernesto and completely concur about his voice being "the most stylishly produced" -- I only heard him once, in one of his...
WELL then. (the interpolated high whatever it is at the end is fun as hell)
https://youtu.be/iYa1D11Nb4k
I think this was the last time that Dessay was truly great. From then on, I found it to be a case of diminishing returns. I wish this had been the HD that was recorded and released. Her later Lucia...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Armerjacquino · 1 hour ago
"Don Pasquale has rarely been mounted expressly to showcase its Norina" Would that had been true of the schlocky NP the Met mounted in 1978-9 for the remains of Sills' voice--...
Loved this Donizetti duet from the “Met at home”. Donizetti fared very well on this program with Erin’s Morley’s aria from Fille du Regiment also displaying her (quite impressive) piano skills as...
Did anyone here hear Gianni Raimondi live? He seems to me a major otr nearly major tenor who didn't record that much due to the competition. His Met career lasted 1965-69: Rodolfo, Edgardo...
Sad to learn that Bobby Banas--an eternal embodiment of teenage cool, though he was 30 or 31 when he choreographed and danced that Nitty Gritty--died last July. He appeared on B'way once, as...
I remember this! You also hear it on the RCA CD! It's a great set!
Fun trivia: Nicholas and Vladimir Nab*o*kov (despite what Sting sings, the name is pronounced "nah-BOH-kuhv" were descended from the composer Carl Heinrich Graun ( 1704-59).
He got it in the divorce settlement from Angie.
Just a mention that Carlos Chausson, the Spanish bass-baritone who I believe is pictured above is 75 years-old. That is getting into Domingo-like career longevity - also Leo Nucci, Giuseppe Taddei...
On this date in history: IN 1521, the trial of Martin Luther over his teachings began during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. Initially intimidated, he asks for time to reflect before answering...
FWIW I wasn't a Dessay fan based on her recordings. I could hear from the very beginning that she was going to run into problems and it set my teeth on edge and made it hard for me to...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Armerjacquino · 3 hours ago
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