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2016-09-23 09:14:45
Learn to be lonely
On this day in 1982 the Larry Grossman / Betty Comden / Adolph Green musical A Doll’s Life opened on Broadway, to close after five performances. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6VMLWNKos4 Born on this day in 1865 librettist Carlos Fernández Shaw. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHU3ngSwIGI Born on this day in 1902 librettist Montagu Slater. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtMUoq_OE2w Born on this day in 1907 bass Nicola Moscona. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SRR17L28Do Also born on this day in 1907 soprano Jarmila Novotná. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH6VqGz0AVQ Born on this day in 1923 tenor Sándor Kónya. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI5g38NplWw Born on this day in 1928 tenor Spas Wenkoff. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1cypvgbGzg Happy 64th birthday soprano Kathryn Montgomery-Meissner. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YYhG-_N3Co Also Happy 64th to baritone and actor William Shimell. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=MroCwi2PMRg
2016-04-01 03:24:11
‘Les Pêcheurs de Perles’ and ‘Tannhäuser’ (Part Two) — Wagner, Bizet and Performance Practices Then and Now
[…] to. Memorable Met Moments Keeping the above issues in mind, the problems of Tannhäuser and his conflicting pursuit of carnal lust and spiritual love have been portrayed by an ever-diminishing gallery of big-voiced heroic tenors. In the Met’s pre- and postwar heyday, the Great Dane Lauritz Melchior took pride of place among the handful of artists brave enough to take up the role’s challenges. Max Lorenz, Ludwig Suthaus, Set Svanhom, Wolfgang Windgassen, René Kollo, Spas Wenkoff (in a memorable Götz Friedrich production at Bayreuth), Reiner Goldberg, James McCracken, Richard Cassilly, and Richard Versalle were also heard at various times, though not all of them at the Met. Each brought their specific vocal traits and acting requirements to the medieval Minnesinger, with the bulkily built McCracken and Cassilly looking and sounding like mirror images of each other. With a voice like thunder, the late Canadian dramatic tenor Jon Vickers had gotten […]
2015-09-23 15:00:54
Moor than expected
La Cieca guesses we will have to make these quizzes more challenging. Even the (as we thought) impossibly obscure Otello of Spas Wenkoff did not baffle Hugo Santos, who nailed every single Otello in last week’s quiz . After the jump, though, there’s one last bit of puzzlement. The “magnificent phrase” was, in fact, not a Verdi original! Download audio file (re_quiz.mp3)
2015-09-23 14:00:12
Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first misattribute
Born on this day in 480 BC playwright Euripides. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSbERgm4SdQ Born on this day in 1865 librettist Carlos Fernández Shaw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHU3ngSwIGI Born on this day in 1902 librettist Montagu Slater http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtMUoq_OE2w Born on this day in 1907 bass Nicola Moscona http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SRR17L28Do Also born on this day in 1907 soprano Jarmila Novotná http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH6VqGz0AVQ Born on this day in 1923 tenor Sándor Kónya http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI5g38NplWw Born on this day in 1928 tenor Spas Wenkoff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1cypvgbGzg Happy 63rd birthday soprano Kathryn Montgomery-Meissner http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YYhG-_N3Co Also Happy 63rd to baritone and actor William Shimell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MroCwi2PMRg
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