Opera: What are you listening to now?

[Aladdin]

Pavarotti...

This will always remind me of my dad.
He loves it ... and over the years I've associated it with him.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'd love to see Pavarotti singing the queen of the night aria out of the magic flute

 

[Aladdin]

I'd love to see Pavarotti singing the queen of the night aria out of the magic flute

He would have made a fine job of it...with his range of four octaves.

 

[Pickman's model]

He would have made a fine job of it...with his range of four octaves.

Just the wrong octaves tho I suspect

 

[Aladdin]

Just the wrong octaves tho I suspect

He could have sung it in a comfortable key.

 

[Pickman's model]

He could have sung it in a comfortable key.

A flat minor perhaps

 

[pseudonarcissus]

I need to cheer up

 

[platinumsage]

I'm waiting for the ROH to put the current Peter Grimes on streaming, it's meant to be very good.

 

[Saunders]

Not all of it right now but I love this and bits of it crop up from time to time if I have my playlist on shuffle

 

[Siouxsie]

I started listening to this over the last couple of weeks....Like the God father, just when I think I'm out.....it pulls me back in

 

[Aladdin]

 

[Aladdin]

 

[ouirdeaux]

Hands up if you know anything about the opera, or indeed Alfredo Catalani, apart from this. Nope, me neither.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I need to cheer up

We played this version at my dad's funeral



He really liked dido's lament.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

As a young lad in the early to 90s we were asked to bring a cassette tape with our favourite songs to school.

Other normal people picked stuff like green day or ace of base.

I picked this...



Not this specific recording but I think it was Callas.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

We played this version at my dad's funeral



He really liked dido's lament.

Thoughts? I like it

 

[pseudonarcissus]

As a young lad in the early to 90s we were asked to bring a cassette tape with our favourite songs to school.

Other normal people picked stuff like green day or ace of base.

I picked this...



Not this specific recording but I think it was Callas.

First opera I saw was Carmen at the ENO. A neighbour got very cheap tickets, best seats in the house just before the performance…I think I was in the middle of row 4 in the stalls.
I’ve generally been in the gods since then

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Thoughts? I like it

I find it being in English a little strange. Not that I think the translation is bad. Just.... different.

Good sound though. A more modern vocal performance but it is a fine take on the subject matter.

Next time I get dumped by a Turkish bloke I'll stick this on.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

First opera I saw was Carmen at the ENO. A neighbour got very cheap tickets, best seats in the house just before the performance…I think I was in the middle of row 4 in the stalls.
I’ve generally been in the gods since then

The first full opera performance I watch was the pearl fishers. I was not that impressed.


I did love watching a performance of the marriage of figaro as a child. However that was the play not the opera. I think they used the opera as a score though but that might be a false memory.


I bet they at least used the overture though. Tune

 

[pseudonarcissus]

I find it being in English a little strange. Not that I think the translation is bad. Just.... different.

Good sound though. A more modern vocal performance but it is a fine take on the subject matter.

Next time I get dumped by a Turkish bloke I'll stick this on.

? Purcell wrote it in English ( or whoever did the libretto) it’s certainly different…I’d not heard Annie Lennox for ages and, I suppose, found it unexpected.
I wish you eternal happiness with the Turkish bloke of your choice

 

[ouirdeaux]

And who can forget this version?

 

[ouirdeaux]

? Purcell wrote it in English ( or whoever did the libretto)

Well, there's the famous Flagstad/Schwarzkopf take on it. Magnificent voices, and splendid accents without the slightest English.

 

[ouirdeaux]

Wagner could actually write quite well when he wasn't being interminable:

 

[ouirdeaux]

For Der Hölle Rache it has to be the incomparable Florence:

 

[r0bb0]

Bit of FSOL x

 

[Saunders]

I’m really not opera savvy but this is perfection to me and I have odd bits on various playlists.
This evening I’m listening to it in its entirety

 

[hash tag]

I'd love to see Pavarotti singing the queen of the night aria out of the magic flute

Saw magic flute again on Wednesday, beautiful.

A piece I knew but didn't know where it was from. It's now high on my list to go and see. I've just heard it on the radio and came to post this.

 

[Cloo]

I've just finished watching this, which I really recommend. It's Monteverdi's Orfeo, one of the oldest known operas, but in a new version that combines Indian music with the original, which works beautifully. It's slow, but but rather mesmerising and the overall effect is very moving, and it's a great production too. Put on captions and you'll see the translation.



Worth adding that it's on YouTube under OperaVision, an EU-funded scheme to full operas online for free, so there's a lot on there that's worth looking at. I think at some point I want to watch Birmingham Opera's Trump-family themed Rhinegold that's on there!

 

[Cloo]

Just bought tickets to see Philip Glass' 'Akhnaten' on 1 April with my 14 year old; 3 hours of opera in Akkadian, Egyptian and Ancient Hebrew with no surtitles. But that's kind of not the point, I gather it's mostly a sort of mesmerising experience. Will be quite odd as it's basically alternating performances with Korngold's 'The Dead City', which said teenager is appearing in the children's chorus of - which is super exciting. I think we'll be coming to see that a week before.

 

[codswallop]