Topic: THE SOPRANO, THE BASSO PROFUNDO, AND THE TESSIE TURA (Read 4578 times)

bk · « **on:** December 11, 2020, 12:11:06 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were sung by a soprano, a basso profundo, and had a Tessie Tura, and now it is time for you to post until the profundo cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** December 11, 2020, 12:13:17 AM »

And the word of the day is: ELUCIDATE!

bk · « **Reply #2 on:** December 11, 2020, 12:13:46 AM »

And now - Dino at the piano.

bk · « **Reply #3 on:** December 11, 2020, 12:13:58 AM »

And now a spinto.

bk · « **Reply #4 on:** December 11, 2020, 12:14:06 AM »

And now the bel canto.

George · « **Reply #5 on:** December 11, 2020, 12:24:47 AM »

A Very Happy Birthday to DR Ginny!!

George · « **Reply #6 on:** December 11, 2020, 12:29:23 AM »

If anyone's interested, the Stratford Festival is streaming (for 36 hours only!) their production of George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, ft. Christopher Plummer and Nikki M. James.

bk · « **Reply #7 on:** December 11, 2020, 12:30:05 AM »

Must say, I'm finding Lenny over the top in Der Rosenkavalier and his humming is most annoying. He's just relentless. von Karajan is not like this at all.

George · « **Reply #8 on:** December 11, 2020, 01:07:31 AM »

Well, this is pretty cool...Time Magazine's 2020 Person of the Year is (are) Joe Biden and Kamala Harris!

George · « **Reply #9 on:** December 11, 2020, 01:07:57 AM »

elmore3003 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 11, 2020, 03:59:10 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #11 on:** December 11, 2020, 04:04:56 AM »

I turned off the lights at 8:30 and slept very solidly until 2:00. Then it was fitful sleep aggravated by Stella's comings and goings. I had a horrible nightmare: I was working on a production with Rob Berman, and it was a revival of a 20s or 30s show in which the producer had brought in songwriters to add to the score. We had just listened to a new song and I said something along the lines of "those last bars sound nothing like the actual songs in the show" when I noticed flames outside the window. We were working in a building next to the theatre where we were opening.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 11, 2020, 04:08:58 AM »

It turns out there was a serious fire on the floor below us, and we had to evacuate. I couldn't find Annabelle, Thatch, or Stella, so I was panicking. We couldn't take the stairs so we had to take the elevator, and the ride was endless. Inside the building we appeared to be somewhere above the fifth floor of a building, but when I was outside the building in the dream, it was only a 3-storey building. Inside the building, there were more than three floors.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #13 on:** December 11, 2020, 04:14:08 AM »

I was checking out the damage and hoping that the cats had made it out. Annabelle turned up in fine fettle; Stella was alive, but most of her tail was burned off; and I found Thatch in the debris of our office. He had lost an eye, and he might have been blind in the one remaining, and his coat was burned. When I picked him up, he fought me, and that's when I woke.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 11, 2020, 04:17:23 AM »

I had originally planned to do laundry today, but I lent my laundry card to Ann and Jen, who have misplaced theirs. There was nothing urgent, so it can wait.

singdaw · « **Reply #15 on:** December 11, 2020, 04:21:48 AM »

OK - several DRs have mentioned watching A Carol Christmas. How and where does one do that?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #16 on:** December 11, 2020, 04:26:19 AM »

BK, that Karajan recording of Der Rosenkavalier is my favorite, but it does have cuts, as I discopvered when I tried to follow it with my vocal score. The Solti recording is complete, and it has the late great Regine Crespin as The Marschallin, who is almost as good as Schwarzkopf on the EMI. It's better than Bernstein.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #17 on:** December 11, 2020, 04:29:22 AM »

To continue my harping, BK, I think you will love Weinberger's Schwanda the Bagpiper, which swept the world until the Nazis shut it down and Weinberger excaped to the USA. This SONY recording is wonderful, with three perfect leads.

singdaw · « **Reply #18 on:** December 11, 2020, 04:33:14 AM »

DR Ginny - wishing you many happy returns of the day!

singdaw · « **Reply #19 on:** December 11, 2020, 04:34:49 AM »

That is one disturbing dream, DR elmore3003.

Hope you are up and about and feeling much more rested today.

vixmom · « **Reply #20 on:** December 11, 2020, 04:36:13 AM »

Last night Singdaw posted

“Watching an interesting documentary on Amazon Prime called "Gatsby in Connecticut." It's sort of a literary sleuthing story positing that the setting of Gatsby was actually inspired by Westport, CT (my old stomping ground) rather than Long Island”

I refuse to believe it! I also demand that “Jaws” is really based on Long Island.

In fact all stories everywhere are really based on Long Island

Ah haz spoke!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #21 on:** December 11, 2020, 04:38:38 AM »

Falstaff is my favorite Verdi opera and the tunes fly fast and furious. Bernstein's recording was my first, and it remains my favorite. I also like the Karajan-EMI with Schwarzkopf and Moffo and Solti's first with Robert Merrill and Mirella Freni.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #22 on:** December 11, 2020, 04:51:10 AM »

And I have three favorite videos of live performances of Falstaff and the movie version, conducted by Solti. It's a comic opera that does a brilliant job of condensing Shakespeare's sprawling Merry Wives of Windsor.

The German film is the same team that produced a wonderful Hansel and Gretel you might enjoy.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #23 on:** December 11, 2020, 04:56:56 AM »

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Happy Birthday to My Dear Friend Ginny !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

singdaw · « **Reply #24 on:** December 11, 2020, 05:02:36 AM »

Quote from: vixmom on December 11, 2020, 04:36:13 AM

In fact all stories everywhere are really based on Long Island

Ah haz spoke!

No doubt you are right, DR vixmom!

singdaw · « **Reply #25 on:** December 11, 2020, 05:02:58 AM »

I am really loving all this opera talk.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #26 on:** December 11, 2020, 05:37:57 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #27 on:** December 11, 2020, 05:38:56 AM »

A very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our DR GINNY!

Freddie · « **Reply #28 on:** December 11, 2020, 05:43:52 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on December 11, 2020, 04:34:49 AM

That is one disturbing dream, DR elmore3003.

Hope you are up and about and feeling much more rested today.

It is scary.

But good to know it can't possibly ever happen because of the different number of stories inside and outside the building.

Freddie · « **Reply #29 on:** December 11, 2020, 05:44:45 AM »

Unless it's that one extra staircase leading nowhere just for show (from Fiddler).

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