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| Il Trovatore | |
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| Topic Started: Dec 9 2013, 03:32 AM (192 Views) | |
| Alli | Dec 9 2013, 03:32 AM Post #1 |
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Mistress, House of Cats
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Trotsky and any others who enjoy Opera Here is the full Il Travatore recorded at The Metropolitan Opera 2011 I do like this version, there is a new one that opened in Berlin last night I have a couple photos It was made more in line with almost cartoonish characters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WYW557pROM IL TROVATORE / GIUSEPPE VERDI Sondra Radvanovsky (Leonora) Marcelo Álvarez (Manrico) Dolora Zajick (Azucena) Dtrimi Hvorostovsky (Il Conte di Luna) Here is a video rehearsing the production that opened last night with Placido Domingo and Anna Netrebko wh's voice IMO improves with each performance of her career. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dvJfwccGD4 Posted Image There is such a distinct difference of the 2 Anvil Choir songs The old version begins at around 32:00 minutes I am not crazy for the new version. But I do love Dolora Zajick who plays Azucena her voice is amazing!! Edited by Alli, Dec 9 2013, 03:37 AM.
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| Trotsky | Dec 9 2013, 07:30 AM Post #2 |
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Big City Boy
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Try as we might I have yet to see the Met's Trovatore, or ANYONE'S. "Di Quella Pira" always melts me into a puddle. Maybe this season if they are doing it. Netrebko is wonderful. We saw her in the startlingly good LUCIA, at the Met...like 2009??? It was a free noon performance and Chase Bank provided LUNCH, can you believe. She was only outdone by the 4 story staircase she fell from in a VERY convincing suicide. She was, in a word, BREATHTAKING. Her Lucia was as good as our other shot at it...JOAN SUTHERLAND sometime in the 1970's. Oops, I forgot Sills...also marvelous. Edited by Trotsky, Dec 10 2013, 06:17 AM.
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| Alli | Dec 17 2013, 01:35 PM Post #3 |
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Mistress, House of Cats
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a18l9qGhV4 I love this rendition with Jonas Kaufman.. Here are the Travatore photos from the Berlin opera....This was last Thursday...... I am just not sure if I can get past all these comic costumes They seem to be doing more and more operas in non traditional settings. Boheme at the Met will be in todays era . The only one that I did like modernized is Manon Lescaut with Anna Netrebko http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDWwQDujeLA Posted Image Edited by Alli, Dec 17 2013, 01:39 PM.
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| Trotsky | Dec 18 2013, 02:21 AM Post #4 |
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Big City Boy
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The picture looks like Sylvano Magnao circa 1960 that might have been called AMORE, ROMA. Remember the term "sundress?" I can hear Netrebko's agent negotiating: "She'll only do it if she can show off her legs."<They surprised me. Picture Sutherland and Pavarotti in that bed scene.> There's gotta be a voice-over going on. She was clearly singing while French kissing the tenor. NOBODY is that good.
Do you think they might do it to cut costs? (Director: "We're doing MARIA STUARDA in jeans and tight T-shirts laugh123 laugh123. The ripped young tenor, however, will be in a loincloth.") I think we will go to the MET only once this coming season for a new production of LA CENERENTOLA (Cinderella) because we adore Rossini and the Prince will be sung by our favorite living tenor, Don Diego Flores...Geez, I hope I can slide into the glass slipper with my size 12's. The Met has a last minute call-in for orchestra tickets at $20 instead of the normal $3,000,000 price. The seats are always terrific. They also do $25 standing room in advance but my back can no longer bear standing for 3 hours in one place...been there, done that. So we will play the phone-internet tag game to try for the seats...more often than not we are successful. A bit sad about the NEW YORK CITY OPERA going belly up. Ever since Sills retired they couldn't draw the crowds. But I guess even in a City as large as New York, two major opera houses are one two many. Seniors used to be able to get the first three rows of the house every Saturday matinee. Sometime too close to take in the whole spectacle but WOW, you never missed a note. Edited by Trotsky, Dec 18 2013, 02:57 AM.
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