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It is imposable do not love Giacomo Puccini. Would it be possible do not be in awe of Tosca? Among the numerous performances of this opera that I have on my shelves there are many great. The De Sabata’s La Scala performance from 1953 with Callas, Di ...
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Since the last week marked the begging of the new The Metropolitan Opera season here is the schedule of the MET's FM Broadcasts:
http://operainfo.org/
You might find your station here:
http://www.operainfo.org/stationfinder/Today, Rigoletto was so...
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I do not do the idiotic quizzes “who is the best” and who would be the top 5 or 10 in some bogus lists but a few days ago I did asked myself who is among 20 century composers I feel was the most interesting and the most appreciated by me. While...
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I agree, with you both..I have a soft spot for Bartok, especially piano concertos, and piano+percussion.Sibelius might feel more significant, but the works I really know and like are from the 19th century.I have still heard very little by Richard Str...
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It is imposable do not love Giacomo Puccini. Would it be possible do not be in awe of Tosca? Among the numerous performances of this opera that I have on my shelves there are many great. The De Sabata’s La Scala performance from 1953 with Callas, Di ...
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...The Damnation of Faust all grown up and much wiser.With that Levine/BSO concert at Tanglewood, I should say that Trojans has now entered the rarefied world of the Ring, Mozart's Da Ponte trilogy, Fidelio, and of course Verdi and Puccini.Carme...
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Hello Romy,I guess I'll go for the 103R at a later date - looking at the specs on this one the loading is the same with a lower output,but I'm thinking it might handle those 25min + LP sides better from the opera world etc.Being half Italiano I need ...
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This edition, 26 CDs box-set, compiled and commented in detail by Juergen Kesting, presents recordings from Maria Callas in glory days, the first decade of her career from 1947 to 1956. This collection is structured on themes and roles. Mar...
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Okay I have to confess that I am a Pavarotti fan, especially the overflowing, gushy puccini operas with the overflowing pavarotti. Along with the bach solo studies for cello, it's one of the reasons I started paying attention to my audio playba...
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Sunday evening operas - 8 pm each week: LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO followed by opera performances from Los Angeles.June 3: Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffman; Matthew Polenzani, Anna Christy, Erin Wall, Alyson Cambridge, James Morris, Emily Fons; Emmanuel V...
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Interesting that at the same day I had dissuasion with a friend in mine (big Wagner fan) trying to formalize for him why I do not “get” Wagner. The best that I was able to come up was that in Wagner the prolog foreplay and rarity of the orgasms is so...
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Paul S:DSET is a very high power solution to a question that I only have a very primitive understanding of. It is not right for me at this time.I would prefer if the model etc. of my speakers not be involved in this discussion. I know I am committing...
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Puccini il trittico live in lyon 1st balcony center vs. Shelter 901 through three-way horn-loaded speakers in myExperience room!Looking back through romy's earlier posts in effort to reconcile live experience last night with what I have at home!I wan...
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Would it be possible for you to post some samples?
With kindest regards,
LBJ...With a little help from Giacomo Puccini...
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Sunday evenings at 8 pm during the summer:
LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO (through July) and other live-by-recording performances
June 14: Massenet: Manon; Natalie Dessay, Jonas Kaufmann, Christop...
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When approach my shelf with opera records and look at the boxes I mostly see colors and I do not mean the color of the boxes… To me all operas have well-defined, very individual colors: form the purplo-neurotic colors of Mussorgsky, the magenta-shaky...
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and thanks for one of my favorite audio/music websites.
Regarding Chung, he is also one of my current favorites and I am lucky enough to live in France where he is conducting quite often. He has conducted a Scherezade in 2003 with Orch Radio Fran...
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[quote user="Lbjefferies7"] Would it be possible for you to post some samples?
With kindest regards,
LBJ...With a little help from Giacomo Puccini
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What so you mean” to post samples”? Do you mean to post WAV files that might be ind...
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]With that Levine/BSO concert at Tanglewood, I should say that Trojans has now entered the rarefied world of the Ring, Mozart's Da Ponte trilogy, Fidelio, and of course Verdi and Puccini.[/quote]
Actually it is a very good ...
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I do hate the colloquialism “Home Theater” but I do not think that another definition exists to define what it is. Whatever it is, I very much hate it. Back in 90s I had a quite refined “Home Theater” installation with 5.1 channels, quite sophisticat...
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It is sometimes disgusting to see operas played in American theaters. It is known and it is unfortunate that the American public consciousness brewed on the mix of puritanical hippocratic absurdity mixed with the condemnations of Jewdaic-Christian mo...
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As far as I know the Matacic discography never was made available. A few weeks ago a fellow at other (more amorphous) forum – Mr. Makopolus - published his list that I find worth to be preserved and publicized. So he is it: the Matacic discogra...
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Chirag, First off all you have to define what do you want from them. If at this moment you’re looking for something within $700 then very next year, when you finish you medical school you will be searching in very different price range… :-) Now a lit...
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Best Classical Album Award to the Artist(s) and to the Album Producer(s) if other than the Artist. Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From Symphony No. 10 Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Ragnar Bohlin, Kevin Fox & Susan McMane, choir directors;...
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A few days ago somebody mentioned to me that Roger Waters, the former Pink Floyd man come up with an opera about French revolution. A brief research confirmed the rumors and it turned out that it was quite awhile back:
http://en.wikipedi...
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