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Thaïs: Nino Machaidze
Athanaël: Plácido Domingo
Nicias: Paul Groves Read the rest of this entry »
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4th May 14
Hello! Just in case anyone was wondering, I’m still alive!
The reason I haven’t posted here in a while is that I’ve been sucked into the gloriously addictive world of Tumblr. And while I was there I found a new love – amateur literary analysis. I’ve explored various different Tumblr blogs managed by English majors and other literature-lovers, who write long essays defending their favorite fictional characters Read the rest of this entry »
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8th Apr 14
Cast
Lucia: Albina Shagimuratova
Edgardo: Saimir Pirgu
Enrico: Stephen Powell Read the rest of this entry »
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14th Mar 14
Cast
Sir John Falstaff: Todd Thomas
Ford: Lee Poulis
Alice Ford: Melody Moore
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7th Mar 14
Most of the opera I watch nowadays on DVD or video tends to be complete performances. But when I first discovered opera, I lapped up any opera-related video I could get my hands on: complete performances, concerts, compilations, and more. Not least intriguing were cartoons inspired by opera, and I don’t just mean the old standbys like What’s Opera, Doc? and Rabbit of Seville. A video that I watched again and again in my early days of opera fandom was Opera Imaginaire, a 1994 compilation of cartoons by various European animators. Read the rest of this entry »
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1st Mar 14
This is just for the sake of posting something. I promise I’ll have another music review written in a few days – and a review of Opera Santa Barbara’s Falstaff in less than two weeks!
1. I don’t quite get the ending of Falstaff. The “double wedding” isn’t a wedding at all – there’s no clergyman, no vows are exchanged, we don’t even get the old opera buffa standby of Read the rest of this entry »
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17th Feb 14
As much as I love the current Met Opera House, I sometimes wish I could have visited the old one. So much history was attached to it! So many glorious and notorious things happened in it! So naturally I was intrigued when I discovered the 1969 book Requiem for a Yellow Brick Brewery: A History of the Metropolitan Opera by John Briggs – a comprehensive Read the rest of this entry »
