she was very very good! not an old lady but actually younger than Nylund. some makeup would have helped with that stage picture but she sang it very well
A favorite Donizetti performance from Belle Raggio · 2 minutes ago
Not to mention the story about Sills taking scissors to the gown made for Scotto and shredding it to force Scala to make a new costume for her in a color that didn't clash with her strawberry...
I think Fletcher meant hautboy anyway, knowing him.
For the sake of comparison, here is Kurzak, in the same staging but in the Italian version. She gives a very different interpretation of Tu che le vanita (with arguably less voice than Rebeka, but...
There’s an attempt to explain the various versions here, in French, supported by a diagram using colour codes…
You know what else is really confusing about the various versions of Maometto and Le Siège? The original work was set in the 1400’s, Le Siège in the 1800’s (contemporary with its creation), yet...
Well, in reality, Carlo was very far from being a hot boy. Schiller’s account was a romantic invention if you know those real characters.
Who are these people you refer to?
Grazie, Gualtier. This is shocking to hear. Well, as I commented in the other thread, I’ve always had a negative image from her TV persona and this only confirms it. The upside of this is that...
The Dinah in that B;wat TROUBLE IN TAHITI was Alice Ghostley of BEWITCHED and other television fame. Sam was John Tyers, a NYC0 singer who sang one (1) Dr Falke at the Met and many more on its...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Belle Raggio · 6 hours ago
TC, you are wonderful to mention Richard T. Gill's incredible Rocco and Sparafucile. He gave my mother a book he had written about economics during one of those productions, and it is still in...
TC, thank you for mentioning Theyard's memorable Don Jose in the Portland Opera Carmen. As you know, I had my Portland Opera debut in the "pivotal" role of banner carrying...
That arch-snob Rasponi wrote that Grob-Prabdl looked like "a British matron of excellent background."
A favorite Donizetti performance from Belle Raggio · 6 hours ago
Ideally, the Met would've presented both versions, as you suggest, keeping each intact. That would've been a better solution than the much criticized conflation they did present. Since...
I love the name Margaret Plummer. It sounds like the name of a respectable 1950s British housewife from Sussex.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Belle Raggio · 8 hours ago
The first account was in Horne's autobiography. Pamira at La Scala was scheduled to be Renata Scotto, who got pregnant and had to drop out. Marilyn Horne was the one who suggested Sills to the...
Del Monaco as Tonio
Christoff as Sulpice
A favorite Donizetti performance from Belle Raggio · 10 hours ago
Yes, Paris and the French did not like women en travesti playing men, so Néocles had to be a tenor, not a contralto (the irony being that contralti/mezzos were replacing castrati). Can you tell me...
Say their name! Say their name!
Peter, the arts.world owes you and Stephen endless gratitude for WCO and for all YOU have done to further and educate the Vocal World over your lifetime. Your vast knowledge of opera, singers and...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Peter Russell · 10 hours ago
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