I agree completely with your review from that season. It was a season highlight for sure, definitely a night more than the sum of its parts. I also have to say I think your comment on not hearing...
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 4 minutes ago
Damn!!! That aria could really do some incredible vocal damage if you don't know how to align those vocal registers properly. What a performance!! Brava Podles!!!! Rossini should have been...
Lots of us loved her Gretel. https://parterre.com/2017/12/19/hells-kitchen/
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 1 hour ago
Oh I love it, and it’s wild that the Met doesn’t revive it more.
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 1 hour ago
Surprising to me that out of that list you'd single out Gretel as the best but maybe it's just my relatively low opinion of that opera.
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 2 hours ago
Manon, Gilda, Susanna, Nannetta, Sophie, Violetta, etc. Plus her recorded performances of course, but those were the live I’ve heard. Never less than quite good. Nannetta was also wonderful.
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 2 hours ago
Thanks. Your post reminds me of one of his last performances when he was forced to sit for the entire opera until he could produce that sound which we all remembered and adored. Yes, "it...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Ali Kashani · 2 hours ago
Like Tandy & Cronyn, several of the I D0! I DO! couples were married. Surprising that Lawrence and MacRae did not do a tour with their respective spouses (Goulet and Sheila MacRae). Both...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Ali Kashani · 2 hours ago
I saw Something Rotten! on one of my few trips to NYC. One of the funniest things I have ever seen!
https://youtu.be/1KFNcy9VjQI
A favorite Donizetti performance from Ali Kashani · 3 hours ago
Haha, well you are more imaginative than most people in charge of casting at major opera houses. She has given recitals at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, where she lives, and made a fabulous...
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 3 hours ago
Just incidentally have been listening to a 2015 performance of LM from SF with Crocetto, Fabbiano, Semenchuk, Silvestrelli and Sumegi ….
The Met's casting for next spring's Traviata is pretty crazy but you can catch Woodbury / Chacón-Cruz / Anthony Clark Evans on April 3, midway through the Oropesa / Buszewski /...
This is from 11 years ago. She’s marvelous! Why isn’t she a bigger star?
Agree! Last act is heavy. Needs in places almost an Aida voice
No, I am no servant girl.
My university did Story Theatre as part of a summer season in 1973. Other shows were Juno and the Paycock, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Little Mary Sunshine (the same actress, a grad student, did the...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Ali Kashani · 4 hours ago
I did not allude to this in a religious sense. I'm much too agnostic at this stage of my life but I totally agree with your view.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Ali Kashani · 4 hours ago
Crowd scenes were filmed at the Hatch Shell on the Charles River Esplanade in Boston. I remember we had to practice applauding and cheering before the cameras rolled.
A favorite Donizetti performance from Ali Kashani · 5 hours ago
I wondered about Massenet in general and about Thaïs more particularly - and wonder what director could make anything of that, though certainly, if it came up in Paris, I'd book if she...
A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2 · 5 hours ago
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