Opera Music

La Cieca is away, but the regular Saturday chat goes on uninterrupted: this week with archival podcasts of I puritani from 1972 starring Luciano Pavarotti and birthday girl Beverly Sills.

... that smile... This photo, taken during yesterday's interview on Antena 3, qualified directly to the gallery of THE photos. Don't know about you, but I can't take my eyes off of it Angela GheorghiuPhoto @official Facebook fanpage Have an amazing, sunny and musical weekend!

After a day of what I can loosely describe as "administrative" I will be on the go again tomorrow - to Norwich where the venerable Norfolk and Norwich Festival wraps up this weekend with a performance of Verdi's Requiem on Sunday evening. These days the festival covers a wide range of activity - and I will be seeing just the one classical music event, the Verdi.  But there is much other intriguing stuff which I look forward to telling you about.  I have no idea what this will be - watch this space...........

COMMANDOpera has been known to influence the direction of the wind in the art form of Opera from time to time… Russian soprano Anna Netrebko has been invited to open the Metropolitan season once again, however Eugene Onegin as the vehicle is something of a yawn. This outing is slightly along the lines of Miss [...]

I came across this whilst browsing on tumblr. Have a listen and see what you think … ~~ This young player from Kanagawa, Japan plays all the instruments heard on his overdubbed recordings and has worked on many arrangements of popular tunes from video games. I find all his videos skilful, amusing and refreshingly original. Check out his channel ~~ Filed under: Music

One might wonder how an essentially "lyric coluratura" could pull this off, and it was one of the great deats of singing/acting in our experience.

Not just the voice..but the LOVE of the vocal line!!!!!!!!! Bless her memory!

May 15, 1929 is the birthday of this 'kid" who surely made so many opera lovers out of people,owing to her infectuous personality and he great voice and stage presence.

G's last day of school... Until next year. ? @ Crenshaw Athletic Club

photo source On 22 May, Bayreuth Festspielhaus hosted a 200th birthday concert for Richard Wagner. Conducted by Christian Thielemann, the Festival orchestra were allowed out the pit for a rare onstage appearance. Soloists Eva-Maria Westbroek, Johan Botha and Kwangchul Youn performed the first act of Die Walküre, which was followed by extracts from Rienzi, Götterdämmerung and Die Meistersinger. Afterwards, various Wagners and Wagnerphiles gathered for dinner and a brief recital from Klaus Florian Vogt. If Arte works in your country, you can watch their broadcast. If not, take a look below: