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personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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Because opera libretti are quite outdated, intendants of opera houses are trying to modernize their stage plays. They reinvent symbolism and implement this new "insights" into their opera productions often in a grotesk way. This is especially true in...
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I have a room in my house that I have no use and I kind of considering converting it to The Opera Room. Generally it might be consider video rooms but I have no interest to watch movies in there, which is regularly associated with video – I have a l...
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I was amazed how good image quality, surround sound and some booze can combine to make for some very nice "at home opera"! I have no idea how much my brother spent on this, except it was plenty! Sound quality, per se, is far from the best, but some...
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My WHRB’s starts the spring Orgy period, the podcast available on-line.
http://www.whrb.org/
On May 5th 6MP, WHRB starts to broadcast 3–days long Rimsky-Korsakov’s Orgy with the following program:1865 (rev. 1884): Symphony No. 1 in e, Op. 1; ...
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I do not do anything with my Opera Room, and I am not sure if I will. Still, from time to time I pick from the tree of possibilities some very kinky fruits. My love to Mussurgsky is know and last weekend I visited my local audio guy who has a very go...
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Ewa Podles in Boston this week in Rossini’s opera “Tancredi.’’ To celebrate Ms. Podles arrival in Boston I bought last week a couple of her live CDs with Russian and Chopin repertoire. Love her voice, even some of Garrick Ohlsson’s accompaniments we...
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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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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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A week or so ago I spoke with a friend of my - he is a perfectly rational and sane person. I send his some music and was asking what was he as thinking about it. He admitted that among the music I sent him he admitted that did not get opera. I was pu...
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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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Amy turned out to be a fireplace kitten and she spends a lot of time in our opera room, cooking her feet on fire and filing the room with marvelous purring. We were planning to do major Opera Room remodeling this winter but the resent Hurricane Sandy...
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Along with last remodeling that we performed in Opera Room the room is becoming more the most pleasant room in our house. In fact we spend now more time then in listening room. We eat there, we watch films there. Sometime we watch TV there. I sleep t...
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“Evgeny Onegin” is kind of idiosyncratically-charismatic Russian opera. As beautiful it is the “Onegin” has no typical thrill that the ordinary opera lovers accustomed to get rush upon. It has nether gipsy colors on the stage, nor masquerade grand da...
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The San Francisco Opera begins to run in War Memorial Opera House their new production of “Boris Godunov”. It is original Mussorgsky’s version and it might be interesting.
http://sfopera.com/o/268.asp
Does anybody know if the recording might become...
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I need to admit that after out UK trip last month I got more sensible what Amy is striving to make the Opera Room to feel and to look. She is British and Finish offspring with British root to be very strong in her, she actually a direct descendant of...
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WGBH presents its 10th annual Opera Bash, a celebration of opera on television and radio.
Tuesday-Friday, Sept. 1-4, on radio
Each day at 2pm on WGBH 89.7 – Opera from the Boston Early Music Festival
The crown jewe...
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So true, Romy.I think I mentioned a while back listening to a live San Diego Opera Company production of "Orpheus in the Underworld" - in my CAR, and this sense of anxiety, anticipation and participation was available even under those very limited ci...
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The Chicago Lyric Opera http://www.lyricopera.org/ the first time since their glorious 70s begun today to broadcast their summer program via the WFMT–FM on Sunday 8PM.
http://www.wfmt.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFMT
The broadcas...
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Last night BSO performed a concert version of Mozart “Abduction From the Seraglio”. I do not know this opera too much and had no idea what to expect. The BSO was lead by Johannes Debus – a musical director of Canadian Opera Company. It turn out to be...
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A few local audio guys temporarily donated to me some gear that completely out of blue made me to have my Opera Room operational. I have a big screen, some kind of a good projector, in few days I will have a good player. The sound is the Altec 19 and...
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My friends, considering my heritage, frequently ask me about my suggestions regarding “Boris Godunov” and I decided to compile a little and highly opinioned (no surprised here!) “surviving guide” about this opera.
It is well-known and well-told stor...
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Sure the 5.1 is not by itself so great, but is it "better" to fight with that pre-existing HT-type system for opera? Maybe just relax and present the opera playback +/- the way the "engineers" had it in mind when they laid down the tracks. Anyway, ...
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This is a whole point with the screens. I spoke with the guys who practice HT and the gave a whole lot of information about screens p I kind of find it ridicules that they are expensive and I find it not true that they are “difficult to made”. The mo...
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Personally, if I wanted to get a 2nd system, I wouldn't want a less good version of the main system. If they both share an approach to audio, you'll always hear the 3- or 4-ness when you are used to the same thing in 10. I'd try to be as different as...
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Leo Delibes' opera, Lakme' is not often heard entire, although the duet I will cite pops up every so often. It is the achingly beautiful, sous le dome epais ou le blanc jasmin, sung by Lakme' and Mallika as they float off in search of flowers, m...
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A film director Alexander Sokurov, the Andrei Tarkovsky’s pupil, will direct the Bolshoi's new production of "Boris Godunov. In April 27". I hope it will be proporly filmed and made available.
By Raymond StultsPublished: April 20, 2007
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I know what you mean regarding the tone colors of the composition styles of opera composers. Richard Strauss is a bit dualistic: his color is metallic grey and almost glittering as diamond (his earliers attemps: Elektra and Salomé) on the other ...
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I have admitted that I have some freakish affection to lover mirage “moments” in sound and the cellos concertos are my “specially” beloved concertos:
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2630
The very same goes with voices. The ...
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Nice thread about old Boris. Like you I have no problem with R-K's version of the opera. Once Mussorgsky added the Polish scenes and all the romantic cooing he moved the opera into 19th C grand opera for which R-K was perfectly attuned and did a good...
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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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