Opera: What are you listening to now?

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An opera I don't know and am keen to know. The opera is based on something really grim and dark yet It includes this aria which many will recognise, a thing of beauty as well. Check out this staging though

 

[ElizabethofYork]

 

[Cloo]

Going to see Handel's 'Agrippina' next week as put on by the opera group my dad's chair of. Apparently this one is set in Silicon Valley and, given the timing, they are billing it as 'The coronation that goes wrong'



hash tag - Gianni Schicchi is a black comedy about grasping relatives, very funny when done right. It's often done as the conclusion what's known as 'Il Trittico' , 3 one-act Puccini operas where it appears after 'Il Tabarro' (The Cloak), 'Suor Angelica' (Sister Angelica, and shameless but effective tear jerker). I've sung in an amateur production of Suor Angelica which was, unusually, presented alongside Walton's 'The Bear' and Gilbert & Sullivan's 'Trial by Jury'

 

[Cloo]

ElizabethofYork - I once sang Casta Diva at a cabaret event with my mate doing a striptease A bit different from original intent.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

ElizabethofYork - I once sang Casta Diva at a cabaret event with my mate doing a striptease A bit different from original intent.

Did you manage to hit the high notes?!

 

[Cloo]

I can generally make an A on a good day - it's the little notes that are the killer in that one

 

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SER=60982]hash tag[/USER] - Gianni Schicchi is a black comedy about grasping relatives, very funny when done right. It's often done as the conclusion what's known as 'Il Trittico' , 3 one-act Puccini operas where it appears after 'Il Tabarro' (The Cloak), 'Suor Angelica' (Sister Angelica, and shameless but effective tear jerker). I've sung in an amateur production of Suor Angelica which was, unusually, presented alongside Walton's 'The Bear' and Gilbert & Sullivan's 'Trial by Jury'

Drawn to it because of its connection to Dante.
I suspect my next so called opera will be Iolanthe. Who knows.

 

[Cloo]

I do recommend the ENO Iolanthe, very funny indeed.

I saw Agrippina last night, it was excellent, still a couple more performances left, highly recommended

 

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I do recommend the ENO Iolanthe, very funny indeed.

I saw Agrippina last night, it was excellent, still a couple more performances left, highly recommended

Yes, it's on in September when family are here. It's a bit thin, but hey

 

[ouirdeaux]

I once sang Casta Diva at a cabaret event with my mate doing a striptease

Some sentences should really be the first lines of novels.

 

[codswallop]

 

[pseudonarcissus]

the Trocs..

 

[pseudonarcissus]

 

[codswallop]

 

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Just started watching Antonio Pappano's greatest aria's on BBC 4. I could happily sit and listen to him all night ( Mrs tag has just said she would, but she would be behind me in the queue ).

BBC iPlayer - Watch BBC Four live

Watch BBC Four live on BBC iPlayer.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Winot]

Saw Das Rheingold last night at ROH (conducted by Pappano). Very good production; I’ve only seen it once before (earlier this year at ENO) and much preferred this.

Running finishes 29 September. There are still tickets left but not ‘cheap’ ones unfortunately. Cheapest is £64 on 17th matinee.

 

[Sasaferrato]

I was listening to



Next up was



Perhaps the oddest juxtaposition ever.

 

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Have recently been to see Amadeus on stage recently we have been listening to quite a lot of Mozart. Have just booked to go and see the magic flute again.

 

[Cloo]

Have recently been to see Amadeus on stage recently we have been listening to quite a lot of Mozart. Have just booked to go and see the magic flute again.

Is that the ENO one next spring?