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Originally posted by doversoul View PostIt does look as if Donna Leon was the guest in 2000 (scroll down)
[ed]. Ah…. the link is to their homepage. I typed in Handel in the composer box.
Ed: With belated acknowledgements to Caliban, whose post I hadn't readIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Richard Tarleton
Highly entertaining. I didn't hear it first time round. I share her experience of Kiri - I saw her sublime Countess in '72, and lament...this sort of thing. I agree with MB about opera singers singing musicals and vice versa.
I think she was a bit confused as to which funeral pyre Manrico was singing about, but she did say she hadn't listened to it for some time....(it was the one about to be lit under his mother by Luna, not the earlier one into which Azucena flung the wrong baby ).
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Originally posted by french frank View PostThat link gives the search page but the Radio 3 page (show more) says it was first broadcast in May 2000 - precisely, it was 6 May according to the CA archive.
Ed: With belated acknowledgements to Caliban, whose post I hadn't read
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Originally posted by french frank View PostThat link gives the search page but the Radio 3 page (show more) says it was first broadcast in May 2000 - precisely, it was 6 May according to the CA archive.
Ed: With belated acknowledgements to Caliban, whose post I hadn't read
Time's arrow would appear to be gaining speed...O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!
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Stephen Whitaker
Originally posted by mercia View Postso it was Filippa Giordano singing Casta diva
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNwnZVTv8SU
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Postwhich funeral pyre ....(it was the one about to be lit under his mother by Luna, not the earlier one into which Azucena flung the wrong baby ).
Opera is so ... wholesome !!
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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must say that ms Leon writes a very passable thriller!According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.
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no one is as good as Michael Dibdin .. i have read the entire Zen sequence and you have reminded me that i could happily read it again .... alas the BBC only forked out for the first three novels [great casting]
i have not read Montalbano - it appears to be a punishment judging by the TV version ...According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostHighly entertaining. I didn't hear it first time round. I share her experience of Kiri - I saw her sublime Countess in '72, and lament...this sort of thing. I agree with MB about opera singers singing musicals and vice versa.
(The recording that came out subsequently - and from which an extract was played - wasn't a patch on the live experience)
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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amateur51
Originally posted by Caliban View PostLikewise Richard... and in addition I shared her experience of Renée Fleming in Handel - I also went to the production of 'Alcina' in Paris that Donna Leon went to, and it was one of the most enthralling and affecting evenings ever.
(The recording that came out subsequently - and from which an extract was played - wasn't a patch on the live experience)
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Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Postno one is as good as Michael Dibdin .. i have read the entire Zen sequence and you have reminded me that i could happily read it again .... alas the BBC only forked out for the first three novels [great casting]
i have not read Montalbano - it appears to be a punishment judging by the TV version ...
The clue here may be in the disjuncture between a film and the novel on which it's based.
I enjoy the Montalbano tv series, but the books, skilfully and wittily translated by Steven Zacharelli, are even more delightful and enjoyable.
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Cornet IV
Originally posted by mercia View Postso it was Filippa Giordano singing Casta diva
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNwnZVTv8SU
I sometimes was discomfited by the Three Tenors who in, presumably, seeking to promote the operatic genre, in my view achieved little more than vulgarising it but at least Messrs Domingo, Carreras and Pavarotti were able to sing; a fundamental requirement yet to be achieved by Ms Giordano. It was at my wife's insistence that I have pursued this worthless matter - I'm glad I can now move on to aspects of life possessed of consequence. Car's due for MOT . . . .
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