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[ScotOp69]

Hello. First time on here. I sing with Scottish Opera Chorus but no one is remotely interested in talking about Music. Looking for similar Muso Nerds in the Glasgow area. Cheers Raymie

[french frank]

Hello. First time on here. I sing with Scottish Opera Chorus but no one is remotely interested in talking about Music. Looking for similar Muso Nerds in the Glasgow area. Cheers Raymie

Welcome to you, ScotOp69. I spent many years in Aberdeen where the visits by Scottish Opera were the regular highlights of the cultural scene, along with the SNO and Scottish Theatre Ballet (as they were then).

[ScotOp69]

Cheers French Frank! We are due in Aberdeen in May for two perfs of La Traviata. A warhorse. But it's great!

[french frank]

Cheers French Frank! We are due in Aberdeen in May for two perfs of La Traviata. A warhorse. But it's great!

Yes, almost certain I saw that (too many years ago to remember - my most vivid memory is still Janet Baker's Dorabella, must have been some time in the 70s )

[Dave2002]

Hello. First time on here. I sing with Scottish Opera Chorus but no one is remotely interested in talking about Music. Looking for similar Muso Nerds in the Glasgow area. Cheers Raymie

Sorry to hear that others don't want to talk. I know some people from Scottish Opera, and some of them are really quite talkative - but perhaps they don't want to talk all the time about music - their day [or night] jobs.

Did you sing in Marx in London?

[ScotOp69]

Yes Dave we just finished Marx in London which I hated. Music wise it was just plagiarising John Adams. I don't know how Dove gets away with it. But everyone thinks he's wonderful. Of course the Chorus are friendly and great to work with, but it was the same when I studied at the RCM. Absolutely no interest in repertoire or even talking about Music in general. It's extraordinary.

[ScotOp69]

Yes French Frank there were some big names singing wiith the Company in the 70s. I have the Phillips recording of Così with Janet Baker. But from hearing it I thought her voice was taxed in that role. Maybe just a tad too much for her?

[french frank]

I have the Phillips recording of Così with Janet Baker. But from hearing it I thought her voice was taxed in that role. Maybe just a tad too much for her?

Possibly, so long ago I have no clear memory. I recall her delicious, lightly flirtatious: "I will choose the handsome dark one, If it's all the same to you."

[ScotOp69]

So Così waa performed in English by Scot Op?

[french frank]

So Così waa performed in English by Scot Op?

It was on that occasion. I was in Aberdeen from 1966 until 1979 and that's the nearest I can date it. Post 1972 probably. Should add that that was when I first started going to the opera.

[ScotOp69]

We did a socially distanced production of Così a few years ago when coming out of the Pandemic. There was no audience & us Chorus were dotted throughout the Upper Circle of the Theatre Royal. The thing was filmed & recorded for the Scottish Opera website. There's hardly any Chorus in Così but what there is, is gold.

[french frank]

We did a socially distanced production of Così a few years ago when coming out of the Pandemic. There was no audience & us Chorus were dotted throughout the Upper Circle of the Theatre Royal. The thing was filmed & recorded for the Scottish Opera website. There's hardly any Chorus in Così but what there is, is gold.

And here it is (now playing):

https://www.scottishopera.org.uk/shows/cosi-fan-tutte/

I guess I saw the 1975 production, which had the translation by Ruth and Thomas Martin. In the earlier 1972 tour John Shirley-Quirk was Don Alfonso and I didn't see him in the role.