The Met Saturday Morning Broadcasts are back.....

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Itullian

Discussion Starter · 6 mo ago

Starting this Saturday at 10 pst, 1:00 est
Opening broadcast.....

December 10, 2022
Kevin Puts’ The Hours
New Production/Met Premiere
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Renée Fleming (Clarissa Vaughan), Kelli O’Hara (Laura Brown), Joyce DiDonato (Virginia Woolf), Kathleen Kim (Barbara / Mrs. Latch), Sylvia D’Eramo (Kitty / Vanessa), Denyce Graves (Sally), John Holiday (Man Under the Arch / Hotel Clerk), William Burden (Louis), Sean Panikkar (Leonard Woolf), Kyle Ketelsen (Richard), Brandon Cedel (Dan Brown)

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Woodduck

· #41 · 5 mo ago

Sonya Yoncheva is 41 years old. Is she considered one of our "stars"? She is wobbling badly.

Itullian

Discussion Starter · #42 · 5 mo ago

Sounds that way to me too

nina foresti

· #43 · 5 mo ago

I see this Wednesday at my HD theater so I just listened to the opera on my local radio station.
I am trepidacious about Beczala's voice. There is a beginning of wobbles on the highs and I actually thought perhaps he was getting tired near the end and summoned up all of his courage to pull through -- and he did so sucessfully. Perhaps this role is not right for him. At least I hope that's the reason. He's got so much to offer.
I am looking forward to seeing Yoncheva because her voice has deepened considerably since I last saw her and now she's got one fine deep chest tone. But wobbles are starting with her as well. (menopause?)
After writing Andrea Chenier I find this one to be a letdown by Giordano.

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Itullian

Discussion Starter · #44 · 5 mo ago

nina foresti said:
I see this Wednesday at my HD theater so I just listened to the opera on my local radio station.
I am trepidacious about Beczala's voice. There is a beginning of wobbles on the highs and I actually thought perhaps he was getting tired near the end and summoned up all of his courage to pull through -- and he did so sucessfully. Perhaps this role is not right for him. At least I hope that's the reason. He's got so much to offer.
I am looking forward to seeing Yoncheva because her voice has deepened considerably since I last saw her and now she's got one fine deep chest tone. But wobbles are starting with her as well. (menopause?)
After writing Andrea Chenier I find this one to be a letdown by Giordano.

Enjoy it in HD!!!!!!!!

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Woodduck

· #45 · 5 mo ago

I had to miss the final act as an elderly neighbor fell, hurt her shoulder, and called me to drive her to the emergency room. I've heard Fedora once before, years ago, with Olivero. It has some nice stuff in it but but needs star power. Yoncheva and Beczala aren't Bellincioni and Caruso. Some unattractive high notes today: Beczala is aging, Yoncheva is aging prematurely. The production looks nice in photos, and audiences are apparently enjoying it. Probably best both seen and heard.

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AlexD

· #46 · 5 mo ago

I saw Fedora in sunny Bracknell (not sunny).

I enjoyed it a lot. It looked pretty, the orchestra was good and the music, singing and acting worked well together. The plot was melodramatic and a little silly.

A "chocolate box" opera - an evening's entertainment and not much more. Kind of like what going to the movies is about.

Not every opera has to change the world.

Glad I saw it, but don't feel the need to see it again in a hurry.

Tsaraslondon

· #47 · 5 mo ago

Woodduck said:
I had to miss the final act as an elderly neighbor fell, hurt her shoulder, and called me to drive her to the emergency room. I've heard Fedora once before, years ago, with Olivero. It has some nice stuff in it but but needs star power. Yoncheva and Beczala aren't Bellincioni and Caruso. Some unattractive high notes today: Beczala is aging, Yoncheva is aging prematurely. The production looks nice in photos, and audiences are apparently enjoying it. Probably best both seen and heard.

I've seen Fedora once on stage at Covent Garden, with an aging Freni and Carreras. The production looked fabulous but I thought the opera instantly forgettable. In fact I'd almost forgotten I'd ever seen it. I've never owned a recording and the only piece I know is the tenor's oft performed short aria Amor ti vieta. It always surprises me that Callas bothered with it (photos of the La Scala production with her and Corelli would suggest that the production was visually sumptuous), especially when you consider it replaced a projected new production of Parsifal with her as Kundry!

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AlexD

· #48 · 5 mo ago

I thought the "dule" between De Sriiex & Lady Olga in the 2nd act was funny.

Here we have 2 characters in opera indulging in the equivalent of a "rap battle" or "dis tracks".

What we think is shiny and new, has in fact been done before (and operatically to boot).

I'm imagining gangs of youths challenging each other to operatic did duels on windy street corners.

Woodduck

· #49 · 5 mo ago

Tsaraslondon said:
I've seen Fedora once on stage at Covent Garden, with an aging Freni and Carreras. The production looked fabulous but I thought the opera instantly forgettable. In fact I'd almost forgotten I'd ever seen it. I've never owned a recording and the only piece I know is the tenor's oft performed short aria Amor ti vieta. It always surprises me that Callas bothered with it (photos of the La Scala production with her and Corelli would suggest that the production was visually sumptuous), especially when you consider it replaced a projected new production of Parsifal with her as Kundry!

Hard to imagine anyone looking forward to the scheduled opera appreciating that particular substitution. Still, Callas and Corelli might have given Fedora a needed shot of adrenalin. Too bad there are no pirated recordings of it.

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nina foresti

· #50 · 5 mo ago

Was it Carreras or Corelli? I am puzzled.
PS. Woody: How is your neighbor?

Woodduck

· #51 · 5 mo ago

nina foresti said:
Was it Carreras or Corelli? I am puzzled.
PS. Woody: How is your neighbor?

Corelli.

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The Great Maria Callas

A role for the imagination 'Fedora' by Umberto Giordano is one of the roles sung by Maria Callas at La Scala in 1956 where we have to use our imagination with regard to how she sang and performed it....

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zh-cn.facebook.com

My neighbor broke her arm. Doctors are recommending some time in rehab.

nina foresti

· #52 · 5 mo ago

Woodduck said:
Corelli.

The Great Maria Callas

A role for the imagination 'Fedora' by Umberto Giordano is one of the roles sung by Maria Callas at La Scala in 1956 where we have to use our imagination with regard to how she sang and performed it....

zh-cn.facebook.com

My neighbor broke her arm. Doctors are recommending some time in rehab.

Too bad. That is my biggest worry in my dotage. I am so careful I look like a Nazi soldier when I walk.

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Woodduck

· #53 · 5 mo ago

ninaforesti said:
Too bad. That is my biggest worry in my dotage. I am so careful I look like a Nazi soldier when I walk.

Dotage rule #1: Do Not Fall. My 96-year-old mother has fallen at least 4 times in the last 15 years, and, remarkably, has never broken anything.

Tsaraslondon

· #54 · 5 mo ago

Woodduck said:
Corelli.

The Great Maria Callas

A role for the imagination 'Fedora' by Umberto Giordano is one of the roles sung by Maria Callas at La Scala in 1956 where we have to use our imagination with regard to how she sang and performed it....

zh-cn.facebook.com

My neighbor broke her arm. Doctors are recommending some time in rehab.

There is an error in the story on the link you posted. The conductor who was due to conduct Parsifal with Callas at La Scala in 1956 was Erich Kleiber, not Victor De Sabata, though De Sabata was involved in another substitution when he fell ill as rehearsals for Medea were due to start in 1953. Bernstein, who just happened to be completeing an Italian tour at the time, stepped into the breach at the last moment.

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Itullian

Discussion Starter · #55 · 4 mo ago

Next up............
January 21, 2023
Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore
Michele Gamba; Javier Camarena (Nemorino), Golda Schultz (Adina), Davide Luciano (Belcore), Ambrogio Maestri (Dulcamara)

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Itullian

Discussion Starter · #56 · 4 mo ago

30 minutes to curtain..........

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RMinNJ

· #57 · 4 mo ago

Itullian said:
Next up............
January 21, 2023
Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore
Michele Gamba; Javier Camarena (Nemorino), Golda Schultz (Adina), Davide Luciano (Belcore), Ambrogio Maestri (Dulcamara)

That's a great (and fun) one! I just heard it last month. Will def tune in and glad I saw this just in the nick of time!!

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Monsalvat

· #58 · 4 mo ago

I'll be listening too!

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RMinNJ

· #59 · 4 mo ago

This is so good -- wish I could be seeing it in person! Can't wait for that final aria for Nemorino, it's really wonderful.

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Itullian

Discussion Starter · #60 · 4 mo ago

A delightful , feel good opera

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