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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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Of course there's always this night at the opera...  I can't find that scene from Il Trovatore! |
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My pin-up in my opera-going days when I was a teenager was this one:  Is that José Carress MJ?  |
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Perhaps if the Opera Diva picture needs updating, we should have a poll?
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Hmmm, I can't think of a Polish soprano or mezzo right now.
The "Poll" might be Polly Peachum in THE BEGGARS OPERA  But I can always think of a Polish soprano ... the best one on the scene at the moment is the fabulous Barbara Dobrzanska... here she is in action, singing the grand-guignol lullaby ending to Tchaikovsky's MAZEPPA, with some very nice tenor contributions from Klaus Schneider... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxTfQIIPusk(you have to ignore the production (from Karlsruhe), which is one of those awful symbolist looks-nice-but-means-nothing German thingummies) |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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Hmmm, I can't think of a Polish soprano or mezzo right now.
The "Poll" might be Polly Peachum in THE BEGGARS OPERA Or indeed, Polly Peachum in POLLY, the sequel to THE BEGGAR'S OPERA.  |
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My pin-up in my opera-going days when I was a teenager was this one: Is that José Carress MJ?  I did meet the young and lovely José - ah, those were the days! Here's a fine Welsh tenor, who sang the Dream Song from Manon for me in a recital in Aberystwyth:  Not a pin-up but a very nice man. |
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Here's a fine Welsh tenor, who sang the Dream Song from Manon for me in a recital in Aberystwyth: The magnificent Stuart Burrows! A lovely singer. Easily the best Don Ottavio I've ever heard. I've never been personally serenaded by him though  . Do tell us more MabelJ. |
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The magnificent Stuart Burrows! A lovely singer. Easily the best Don Ottavio I've ever heard. I've never been personally serenaded by him though . Do tell us more MabelJ. Not much more to tell, George. He was singing at the ROH some time before the Aber recital and in conversation with my dad, after learning that his daughter was looking forward to hearing him sing in Aber, asked him if there was anything I'd like to hear. I suggested the Dream Song, which he performed most beautifully, after announcing that it was a request from Jane. |
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I saw him, too, GG: very fine indeed (and as Jack in The Midsummer Marriage, too, of course).
One could ask why it has to be a picture of an opera star at all: after all, for The Concert Hall, we have a picture of the interior of what I presume is Symphony Hall, Brum: logically The Opera House should follow suit....
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Good thinking, Ron! Anyone here visited this one?  Teatro Amazonas in Manaus I'd like to watch that Fitzcarraldo film again. |
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Good thinking, Ron! Anyone here visited this one? Teatro Amazonas in Manaus I'd like to watch that Fitzcarraldo film again. Fitzcarraldo and Aquirre Wrath of God, all time favourites. I have them on video. I am a Werner Herzog fan Am I still on the right thread, Welsh Tenors, Robert Tear, and how about Sir Geraint Evans. Do you know, percentage wise, from a small Nation how many Opera Stars we have produced? No, I don't know either. But I think it is 27 So that means 5% of the Welsh are famous opera singers (excluding Catherine Jenkins) |
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