Mariusz Trelinski will direct Tristan und Isolde for Metropolitan Opera in a production that will premiere there on opening night 2016.
Vanzo didn't sing that much outside of France-- just one Wiener Staatsoper show, for example, a 1966 Rodolfo opposite Pilou, Holm and Sereni, which must have been pleasant but not the right...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 0 minutes ago
NIGEL
All I think of when I see Lucrezia mentioned ;-)
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 8 minutes ago
Well, they loved his recordings when I played them to them later but had no specific recollection of him in 1965-- they certainly didn't about that performance when I was 5! But maybe 10 years...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 14 minutes ago
The 1971 JOHNNY JOHNSON revival's requisite opera singer was NYCO bass-baritone James Billings.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 20 minutes ago
I just know him from clips and recording. And just love his voice. I saw him in Scottsboro Boys and he blew me away. Also, in Porgy and Bess. And I saw him in a Stephen Schwartz concert at The Met...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 23 minutes ago
Love Christine Andreas.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 26 minutes ago
I was one of those people who felt he did not have the voice for the role. For me the music and singing is so important in Carousel. They even cut out Greatest Judge of All because I assume he...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 27 minutes ago
Nora Gubisch might be available.
Yeah, I just....I dunno about him. Enkhbat has a beautiful voice but I saw him in Ballo in San Francisco last fall, and he was just so dead behind the eyes that he lost me.
It's very obliquely handled - the source is Victor Hugo and it probably is much more clearly hinted there without the Catholic censors weighing every word.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 52 minutes ago
...and Kaufmann and Radvanovsky, all of whom are featured in today's clips.
I found a number of printed reviews, LPY, it seems you were not alone in your dislike of the production.
When my mother celebrated her 40th anniversary as an opera singer (at the age of maybe 63 or 64), she sang excerpts from Roberto Devereaux and Lucrezia Borgia with five young singers. Among the...
Never realized that. More like BEATRIX CENCI!
It’s good to see that so many Parterrians have such great admiration for Vanzo (and for other dead French singers ; though it would be nice to see more interest in the curently active French...
Looking forward to hearing them all in the house on May 1st. Fingers crossed, indeed.
Gracious! Hot stuff for an opera of that period. I must get to know this opera much better.
Film directed by Carol Reed of Odd Man Out/Third Man fame, who did a good job of cutting the sugar.
There are very heavy hints in the text that Gennaro is the offspring of a sibling rape of Lucrezia by her psychopath brother Juan/Giovanni Borgia. "Fur tuoi padri i padri miei... Ti risparmia...
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.
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After five flops in a row, Mr. McVicar continues to win new assignments from the Met.
Mariusz Trelinski will direct Tristan und Isolde for Metropolitan Opera in a production that will premiere there on opening night 2016.
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