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2017-05-13 14:00:07
I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever
Born on this day in 1842 composer Arthur Sullivan. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5CcORoKZvI Born on ths day in 1876 composer Raoul Laparra. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIqyOtBnOQ0 Born on this day in 1937 conductor Judith Somogi. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QKjPR57xB4 Happy 82nd birthday baritone Dominic Cossa. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZEtREQxHjE Born on this day in 1938 tenor Ludovic Spiess. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gLm13k4l18 Happy 68th birthday conductor Jane Glover. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nAk8fNces0
2017-01-02 20:11:48
Conspicuous consumption
Even though New Year’s has passed, let’s keep the bubbles flowing with a classic 1974 New York City Opera La traviata with Beverly Sills, John Stewart, and Dominic Cossa conducted by Julius Rudel. My generation will remember Frank Corsaro’s production well: it was unlike any La traviata we’d ever seen before. In addition to the heightened drama it included details such as dusty outlines on the walls of Violetta’s bedroom from which paintings had been removed to be sold, and among the partygoers in Act One George Sand, in male attire, dancing with another woman. La traviata was likely the opera which remained in Sills’ repertoire for the longest time: 1951 through 1977. This was one of her last Violettas at NYCO, a bit more than a year before her Met debut in L’assedio di Corinto. She would also do a handful of Violetta’s at the Met under the condition […]
2016-05-13 14:40:14
After all we have each of us only eight notes to work upon
Born on this day in 1842 composer Arthur Sullivan. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5CcORoKZvI Born on ths day in 1876 composer Raoul Laparra. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9NMuPDDP9A Born on this day in 1937 conductor Judith Somogi. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QKjPR57xB4 Happy 81st birthday baritone Dominic Cossa. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZEtREQxHjE Born on this day in 1938 tenor Ludovic Spiess. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gLm13k4l18 Happy 67th birthday conductor Jane Glover. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nAk8fNces0
2013-04-14 22:22:31
Salad Bowl Italian-Opera Style Continues with ‘La Traviata’
[…] the female lead and her transition from worldly courtesan to noble, self-sacrificing heroine – it’s a rare occurrence indeed to have that focus shift away from the soprano protagonist to the tenor, or is it the baritone? Superstar overachiever Placido Domingo first sang the tenor part of Alfredo as far back as 1961 in Monterrey, Mexico, and most memorably at New York City Opera in Frank Corsaro’s landmark 1966 production with Patricia Brooks and Dominic Cossa. Domingo later took on the role at the Met and other international opera houses. But the part of Giorgio Germont has traditionally remained the property of the baritone. A high-lying, lyrically expansive role, in the frame of Verdi’s other middle-period creations such as Rigoletto and the Count Di Luna from Il Trovatore, Germont has been coveted by singers for over a century and a half. Some of the finest interpreters in the business have […]
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