Which recordings of which operas are best?
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 21 August 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 21 August 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)
Va Pensiero, greatest opera chorus, ever.
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 August 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 22 August 2003 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)
(I know it's not an opera, but it needs to be destroyed anyway)
― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 22 August 2003 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ed (dali), Friday, 22 August 2003 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― erik, Friday, 22 August 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)
I don't have a recording of it... I saw it performed in a crumbling coliseum in Verona as the sunset, and I can't imagine any recording matching that.
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 22 August 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)
saw ernani on friday, first opera i've seen in person. totally ruled.
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Sunday, 12 February 2012 22:58 (fourteen years ago)
i'm a total opera philistine but the combatting ranges, the dialogical interaction between voices is just extremely exquisite to listen to
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Sunday, 12 February 2012 23:00 (fourteen years ago)
Thought about going on Friday but couldn't do it. Big fan of Dmitri Hvorostovsky
― AINT ET ENNE (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2012 23:38 (fourteen years ago)
I did a production of Ernani! Was mad fun.
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 13 February 2012 01:20 (fourteen years ago)
Were either of Dmitri Hvorostovsky or Sondra Radvanovsky in it?
― AINT ET ENNE (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 February 2012 01:30 (fourteen years ago)
Chicago Lyric Opera is doing Aida this season, and I'm dying to go. I can't think of anyone that I want to spent an extra $90-$160 on to go with me, and I can't think of anyone who would pay that themselves to go with me. Is it gauche or sad to go to the opera alone?
Interesting timing on this thread revive, though. I listened to all of Rigoletto yesterday afternoon, a remaster with Maria Callas as Gilda. I listened to her "Gualtier Malde" number three times before moving on.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Monday, 13 February 2012 01:54 (fourteen years ago)
Ack! He was too prolific!
We wrote a lot of operas, yes, but they're digestible in a sitting at least. I took on Wagner's Tristan and Isolde last week (I believe a recording with Kirsten Flagstad as Isolde), and at the risk of sounding like a rube and a novice, it's so... freaking... long.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Monday, 13 February 2012 02:04 (fourteen years ago)
Nope. Barbara Quintilliani, Eduardo Villa, Young-Bok Kim and Jason Stearns.
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 13 February 2012 04:03 (fourteen years ago)
always back to Verdi
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 20:19 (thirteen years ago)
Eri tu, Verdi, sempre eri tu.
― Do You Like POLL Music? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 20:25 (thirteen years ago)
the exact opera I'm listening to right now!
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 20:29 (thirteen years ago)
Who's the baritone?
― Do You Like POLL Music? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 20:36 (thirteen years ago)
Gobbi. I have the Callas studio version with the Orchestra & Chorus from La Scala under Antonino Votto.
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 20:39 (thirteen years ago)
I have a version of Tosca with that same duo.
― Do You Like POLL Music? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 20:47 (thirteen years ago)
man
kind of at a point in my life where lines from the synopsis make me cry like a child
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 20:55 (thirteen years ago)
Couldn't make it in person today so listening to the live broadcast of today's performance of that opera at the Met. Really a stellar cast.
― Ginger Geezer's Armada (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 December 2012 20:48 (thirteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wNF3WlGKxc
dope performance of aida i just finished
― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Sunday, 26 May 2013 14:23 (twelve years ago)
To perish! so pure and lovely! To die, thine own self dooming, In all thy beauty blooming, Fade thus forever! Thou whom the heav'n only for love created But to destroy thee was my love then fated! Ah no! those eyes So dear I prize For death are too lovely!
god, the fucking ending
amonasro was a total dick
― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Sunday, 26 May 2013 14:25 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZratWt3wOl4
starting around 4:30, this is the business
― k3vin k., Sunday, 26 January 2014 03:32 (twelve years ago)