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- Bianca Castafiore
  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.
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 1 hour ago
- Krunoslav
  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 · 3 hours ago
- TildyDiva
  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...
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 3 hours ago
- TildyDiva
  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...
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 3 hours ago
- Krunoslav
  That arch-snob Rasponi wrote that Grob-Prabdl looked like "a British matron of excellent background."
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Belle Raggio · 3 hours ago
- Lohenfal
  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...
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 4 hours ago
- scott grunow
  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 · 5 hours ago
- Gualtier Maldè
  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...
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 6 hours ago
- Krunoslav
  Del Monaco as Tonio
  Christoff as Sulpice
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Belle Raggio · 7 hours ago
- Bianca Castafiore
  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...
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 7 hours ago
- AB
  Say their name! Say their name!
  
  Dies magna et amara valde · 7 hours ago
- JoAnn Kulesza
  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 · 7 hours ago
- Gualtier Maldè
  For the French version "Le Siège de Corinthe" Rossini changed the location, the names of the characters and the vocal distribution. The contralto role of Calbo in "Maometto II"...
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 8 hours ago
- PCally
  Wasn’t able to listen to the entire thing but I liked Sills more than I had anticipated for that point in her career. Her ornamentation drove me nuts, but I thought she was in strong shape. Verrett...
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 8 hours ago
- Lohenfal
  Yes, Rossini himself made many changes in the music of his French revision, but at least they're his own. The Schippers goes back and forth between the 2 scores, along with some interpolations...
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 8 hours ago
- CanBelto
  And in real life, Philip was in his 30s and Carlos was kind of creepy, no?
  
  C’est une vraie voix · 8 hours ago
- oedipe
  I don’t think she can.
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Belle Raggio · 8 hours ago
- CCorwinNYC
  You can listen to the Hunter/Theyard Cavalleria here: https://parterre.com/2024/10/08/easter-vigilantes I heard him just...
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 9 hours ago
- Bianca Castafiore
  As I understand it, the score is also different than Maometto II …. many arias and set pieces are the same but not all.
  
  L’assedio di Corinto · 10 hours ago
- scott grunow
  Callas as Maria
  Barbieri as the Marquise
  Oltrabella as Krakenthorp
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from Belle Raggio · 10 hours ago

marcello giordani

Geh such dir die Stars vom vergangenen Jahr!

Geh such dir die Stars vom vergangenen Jahr!

Questo e Quello

Geh such dir die Stars vom vergangenen Jahr!

Tristan has been the season-launching opera three times before now, but good luck finding someone to provide a firsthand account of the last time.

By Porgy Amor on September 23, 2016 at 3:20 AM

And the 2013 Pubies go to…

And the 2013 Pubies go to…

Questo e Quello

And the 2013 Pubies go to…

One startling upset catches the eye among the many winners (if that is the word) of the 2013 Parterre Box Awards.

By La Cieca on May 20, 2013 at 8:51 PM

To tell the truth

To tell the truth

Questo e Quello

To tell the truth

Four of La Cieca’s favorite people, Diana Soviero, Ira Siff, Robert Lombardo and Ken Benson, assemble on November 9 at the impressively named “Metropolitan Opera Guild Learning Center”…

By La Cieca on October 24, 2012 at 11:10 AM

Questo e Quello

Saddle sore?

By La Cieca on December 12, 2010 at 12:53 AM

Questo e Quello

From A to Zeani

By La Cieca on December 07, 2010 at 1:15 PM

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