Private Passions

[kernelbogey]

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 ...

I haven't read Dibdin - but I found the tv series with actors playing Italians, walking about in Italy speaking English, absurd and, for me, unwatchable.

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.

Likewise 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)

I hope you took porky provisions for the intervals, Cali

[Nick Armstrong]

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.

Likewise 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)

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

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 ...

[jean]

If your penchant is for Italian detectives, I don't think she's nearly as good as Michael Dibdin.

(Nor Inspector Montalbano, obviously, though he's not Venetian.)

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

must say that ms Leon writes a very passable thriller!

[Nick Armstrong]

which 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 !!

so it was Filippa Giordano singing Casta diva
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNwnZVTv8SU

The truly awful thing is that people still swallow this tripe.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B00002DDXF/ref=cm_rdp_hist_hdr_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

[Bax-of-Delights]

That 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

I stand corrected.

Time's arrow would appear to be gaining speed...

[gurnemanz]

That 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

I also hadn't notice that it was repeat, although in the Radio Times it has an (R) next to it.

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 ).

[french frank]

It does look as if Donna Leon was the guest in 2000 (scroll down)

http://www.classicarts.co.uk/passions-archive.asp

[ed]. Ah…. the link is to their homepage. I typed in Handel in the composer box.

That 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

[jean]

Could this be what you were looking for? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7MpF...3ED624&index=4

No. That wasn't bad at all.

[mercia]

so it was Filippa Giordano singing Casta diva

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNwnZVTv8SU

[doversoul1]

It does look as if Donna Leon was the guest in 2000 (scroll down)

http://www.classicarts.co.uk/passions-archive.asp

[ed]. Ah…. the link is to their homepage. I typed in Handel in the composer box.