i just ordered the Kubelik Meistersinger.
cant wait to hear it?
cant wait to hear it?
Thanks Schigolch. The production looks rather unlikely. If there was ever an opera screaming out for straightforward spooky Hollywood style romanticism, it's this one.I know there was a project to launch a DVD of the Bologna's performances with John Osborne and Carmela Remigio. The production was signed by Pier Luigi Pizzi. Who knows?. Maybe it will finally appears someday.
It's easy to find the performance from the Mezzo TV competition in Szeged, though the production was not precisely exciting:
IMO, this opera screams for being forgotten at the first place. Or maybe it is somewhat valueable as reminder that romantic period wasn't all Byrons and Chopins and that there was something that we might call romantic exploitation art, works that made use of most cheap elements and themes popular at that time. Der Vampyr is almost like XIXth century Twilight.If there was ever an opera screaming out for straightforward spooky Hollywood style romanticism, it's this one.
Thank you for the plug Caballe is glorious and this is a glorious opera.The 1972 Guillaume Tell.
In the "what cd/dvd are you listening to/watching thread" Itullian extolled this opera, of which I've only listened to small segments of in the past, usually while watching the Lone Ranger (tv series not the damn movie) and A Clockwork Orange. Well, also asile hereditaire and the aria that sounds a bit like a riff off Lulli's bois epais: selva opaca (yes, the Italian version). But I've never been much of a Rossini follower, except for the Barber. I listen to the Callas/Gobbi/Alva version every twenty years or so. But that's it.
Well, since Itullian and I seem to like a lot of the same music, I've just ordered this one.
I need to develop more self-control. It's the internet. Caballe was the dealmaker for me.
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:tiphat:While I was at it shopping the previous opera online I finally also pulled the trigger on this dvd, which I've been meaning to get for some time now.
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They had to stand firmly so they wouldn't be blown away by that wind.View attachment 31997 Old fashioned stand and deliver sort of production