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Music and Media => The Audio Circle Opera House => Topic started by: FullRangeMan on 30 Apr 2020, 12:40 am
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From the NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/arts/music/classical-music-opera.html?action=click&module=moreIn&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer&action=click&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer&contentCollection=Pop%20Culture
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Excellent music.
I will add my own choice.
Two friends falling in love with the same girl promising to remain BFFL. Au fond du Temple Saint (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz5FuWoTvU8)
I chose this one because it has English subtitle and they are good. The version I like the best is this one with Jussi Björling & Robert Merrill (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDSLLZph-Yc). The incomparable Caruso recording (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGvU2hfni8A) is good too but you have to account for the technical difficulty of a 1907 recording. There are so many others.
I have been listening to a lot of Opera -- not just my own (considerable) record collection but also Met video service that I subscribe to. The visual does add a lot to the experience. With that in mind here is the first Act of a production. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpYOdRMt8j4) It gives you a context of what they are singing about in the duet.
What's yours?
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I found that my appreciation for opera went up quite a bit when I got speakers that had excellent midrange to tweeter integration. Speakers with less than perfect integration tend to make opera voice sound irritating to me. All this time I thought I didn't like opera, and it turned out it was just a technical limitation on my old speakers.
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My wife and I really enjoy live Opera !!
We went to 3 operas last season . They were all wonderful!!!
We are getting tickets for less than $20 a seat .
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Too bad there is no good recordings of Callas, so I will suggest Julia Varady & Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau also in a no great recording, fortunately the performance are great inclusive Maazel:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zemlinsky-Lyric-Symphony-Julia-Varady/dp/B00000E3FR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COuCiDT_PCY