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A night at the opera

Redress said:
He did a whole album based on opera, my first exposure to some of it.
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Wow, I've heard this before, but never knew the artist.

I like it.

Thanks.
 
Chomsky said:
Graziella Sciutti knocked it out of the park, too.

Great choices.

Might that considered a definitive recording of the piece?
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The standard for that was probably set by Rita Streich.
 
Goshin said:
I'll see your Madam Butterfly, and raise you a Ring das Niebelungen! :)
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I knew it wouldn't be long before someone brought the Wagner out! :mrgreen:
 
Among the best known songs from Opera is the Habanera from Carmen and if you're going to sing it you're following in the footsteps of amazing performances by the likes of Callas, Tibaldi and Horne so if your name is Elina Garanca you've got your work cut out for you



I love this scene. Garanca nails the acting as well as the singing.
 
Thank you for starting a thread on a subject of classical, cultured good taste.

We could us a lot more around here.
 
Lutherf said:
Among the best known songs from Opera is the Habanera from Carmen and if you're going to sing it you're following in the footsteps of amazing performances by the likes of Callas, Tibaldi and Horne so if your name is Elina Garanca you've got your work cut out for you



I love this scene. Garanca nails the acting as well as the singing.
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Wow. I'd never seen that version before. Elina Garanca.... what a remarkable performance.
 
Chomsky said:
I knew it wouldn't be long before someone brought the Wagner out! :mrgreen:
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Honestly, I love parts of the Ring cycle, but there's no way I'd ever try to watch the whole thing at one sitting. An hour or two of Wagner is about all I can handle.


Ever heard what Mr. Twain had to say on the subject of German opera? :)
Three or four hours. That is a long time to sit in one place, whether one be conspicuous or not, yet some of Wagner's operas bang along for six whole hours on a stretch! But the people sit there and enjoy it all, and wish it would last longer. A german lady in Munich told me that a person could not like Wagner's music at first, but must go through the deliberate process of learning to like it--then he would have his sure reward; for when he had learned to like it he would hunger for it and never be able to get enough of it. She said that six hours of Wagner was by no means too much. She said that this composer had made a complete revolution in music and was burying the old masters one by one. And she said that Wagner's operas differed from all others in one notable respect, and that was that they were not merely spotted with music here and there, but were all music, from the first strain to the last. This surprised me. I said I had attended one of his insurrections, and found hardly any music in it except the Wedding Chorus. She said "Lohengrin" was noisier than Wagner's other operas, but that if I would keep on going to see it I would find by and by that it was all music, and therefore would then enjoy it. I could have said, "But would you advise a person to deliberately practice having a toothache in the pit of his stomach for a couple of years in order that he might then come to enjoy it?" But I reserved that remark.
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S. Clemens, A Tramp Abroad
:)
 
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