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« Reply #885 on: 21:52:16, 08-04-2008 » |
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17. Klemperer & Lehmann?
Nope. Both were singers. |
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« Reply #886 on: 21:58:19, 08-04-2008 » |
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Thought 17 was a trick  Is it Edita Gruberova? |
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« Reply #887 on: 22:18:06, 08-04-2008 » |
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Bit of a long shot, but I don't suppose No 14 is James McCracken and Sandra Warfield?
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« Reply #888 on: 22:28:49, 08-04-2008 » |
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17 is not Edita Gruberova - you need to go back a generation - this was taken during the interval picnic at Glyndebourne, 1955.
14 isn't James McCracken and Sandra Warfield, but they are American.
15 is a French-Canadian couple
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« Reply #889 on: 22:31:18, 08-04-2008 » |
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15 is a French-Canadian couple
Aha! Leopold Simoneau and Pierrette Alaire (not because I have the faintest idea what they look like, but because they're the only French-Canadian operatic couple I can think of). |
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« Reply #890 on: 22:33:50, 08-04-2008 » |
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Ah, pw, I made a mistake with my clue, which should have been for Couple No.15. They were indeed Léopold Simoneau and Pierrette Alarie, who feature together in my recording of Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles, although I gather he was more a Mozartian tenor. Simoneau only died in 2006; Alarie is still with us.
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« Reply #891 on: 22:36:14, 08-04-2008 » |
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They were indeed Léopold Simoneau and Pierrette Alarie, who feature together in my recording of Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles, although I gather he was more a Mozartian tenor.
Oh, I don't know about that - if that's the recording I think it is, Simoneau sings exquisitely. |
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« Reply #892 on: 22:38:57, 08-04-2008 » |
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Oh, I don't know about that - if that's the recording I think it is, Simoneau sings exquisitely.
He certainly does. I got it on the basis of a BaL recommendation and his Je crois entendre encore is wonderfully done. |
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« Reply #893 on: 23:18:55, 08-04-2008 » |
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Thanks for clue IGI
17. Graziella Sciutti
and I'm not sure who with, but I'll plump for Franco Calabrese
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« Reply #894 on: 23:29:47, 08-04-2008 » |
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Ah, it's not Graziella Sciutti, John.
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« Reply #895 on: 23:36:34, 08-04-2008 » |
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Oh IGI, all those ladies look the same to me  17. Sena Jurinac ? |
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« Reply #896 on: 23:37:39, 08-04-2008 » |
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17. Sena Jurinac ?
Yes, with the bass-baritone who was very briefly her other half... |
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« Reply #897 on: 23:44:24, 08-04-2008 » |
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Ah, well I don't know them but I have researched,
17. Sena Jurinac + Sesto Bruscantini
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« Reply #898 on: 23:51:43, 08-04-2008 » |
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17. Sena Jurinac + Sesto Bruscantini
Is correct, John. Just couple no.13 left. He was a famous Wagnerian. She was famous in Mozart (especially Pamina), Strauss (she sang all three main female roles in Der Rosenkavalier) and several modern operas. |
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« Reply #899 on: 00:22:42, 09-04-2008 » |
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And couple number 13 is...
...Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart!
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