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Post by MartinT on Jul 1, 2020 12:25:26 GMT
Thanks - great cast but I don't think I could sit through an entire Wagner opera.
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 1, 2020 12:42:10 GMT
James Levine has either made a pact with the Devil or has OD'd on Red Bull for the overture!
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Post by MartinT on Jul 1, 2020 13:00:35 GMT
Oh yes, he's definitely on the sauce!
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Post by TheMooN on Jul 1, 2020 18:54:11 GMT
Thanks - great cast but I don't think I could sit through an entire Wagner opera.  Lightweight |
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 2, 2020 15:49:32 GMT
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 4, 2020 12:10:34 GMT
La Boheme is fantastic.
Superbly staged and a wonderful chemistry between the leads. Lots of delightful music.
Not a long opera if you fancy dipping your toes. Top marks from this opera noob.
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 4, 2020 13:56:18 GMT
Damnation.
No Nicola Benedetti at the RAH tonight - 'unforeseen circumstances' ...
Was looking forward to that.
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 6, 2020 11:49:51 GMT
Last night I enjoyed this fabulous Carmen from the ROH. For my first taste of Carmen I would have preferred a traditional staging but you quickly get past that such is the quality of the performance. A feast of wonderful music and the orchestra are in fine form. It's all appropriately seductive. www.roh.org.uk/news/watch-live-the-royal-operas-carmen-on-2-july-2019 |
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Post by MartinT on Jul 6, 2020 13:54:22 GMT
I always thought Julia Migenes was great in the Carmen I used to have on Laserdisc.
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 9, 2020 19:03:06 GMT
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 10, 2020 15:51:07 GMT
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Post by TheMooN on Jul 13, 2020 7:40:39 GMT
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 13, 2020 12:52:39 GMT
I have never dared before but I will give that a try tonight ...
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 14, 2020 15:46:15 GMT
Did you watch this Roger, and if so, how did you rate it? I got half way through Act 2 before bed. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would - not much in the way of staging of course, but the music and quality of performance seemed excellent. Found it highly melodramatic but that kind of kept my interest at the same time! |
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Post by TheMooN on Jul 14, 2020 16:14:23 GMT
I can appreciate your thoughts on this production Jules, a 5.5/10 at best.
I suspect the following production might be more to your taste.
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 16, 2020 12:32:35 GMT
Just a reminder that Sheku is streaming this evening at 7pm! |
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 16, 2020 20:39:05 GMT
Are there enough superlatives to describe the inspirational talent of SKM??
His performance here is exquisitely lyrical yet profoundly potent ... Dynamically charged with a deep passion and vitality - here is a man who lives the music; you can see it in his very pores. They really should release this recording commercially!
And he always conducts himself immaculately as a person. Just so, so impressive. What a role model for young musicians everywhere.
You've also got the added bonus of RVW's Fantasia on a Theme in this concert... A wonderful production as a whole where so much thought has gone into every detail in the staging, filming, lighting and audio. The Philharmonia are truly leading the way in how a digital production is done today and how to stay relevant in these troubled times. Others should look, and learn.
If you missed the show it's online for 30 days. I urge you to watch, and donate if possible.
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 17, 2020 17:33:56 GMT
Looks like a big production of Faust streaming at 7 tonight from the Royal Opera House.
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 18, 2020 10:50:20 GMT
Tonight at 7, Lisa Batiashvili and Daniel Lozakovich at the Virtual Verbier Festival.
Take a look at their schedule, lots of top names appearing.
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 21, 2020 15:41:02 GMT
This is about as close as most people are ever going to get to Bayreuth in their lifetime! You need to book virtual tickets. From DG Stage - www.dg-premium.com/dg-stage/< Deutsche Grammophon is proud to present a virtual Bayreuth Festival this summer. Created in partnership with the spiritual home to Richard Wagner’s music dramas, the festival will run on sixteen evenings between 25 July and 2 August as part of DG Stage. The four works scheduled for the 2020 Bayreuth Festival – Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin and Der Ring des Nibelungen – will be broadcast online in recent or landmark productions from the Bayreuth archives. Every production will be shown on the day and at the time it would have been performed during this year’s cancelled festival and subsequently repeated a second time. Additionally we show critically acclaimed festival stagings of Tristan und Isolde and Parsifal on free days in the 2020 Bayreuth calendar. To substitute for Bayreuth’s new production of the Ring, DG Stage is set to run Frank Castorf’s 2013 staging of Wagner’s tetralogy as well as Patrice Chéreau’s iconic production from 1976, the “Centenary Ring”. Each staging will remain available to view for 48 hours. > |
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