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#opera

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Georgiana Brummell

I think it's fair to say that I adore tenors, particularly the tenori di grazia. My favourites in clude Tito Schipa, Cesare Valletti, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Leopold Simoneau, and Dino Borgioli. ButOnly Valletti and Tagliavini (the latter when young), could almost equal Schipa. The former was his student, which says a lot. Anyway, today, I decided to give the other voice types a try. So I asked Perplexity about basses and baritones. From the list it gave me, after trying them all, I liked Giulio Crimi, Mattia Battistini, Mariano Stabile, Mario Ancona, Riccardo Stracciari, Pasquale Amato, and Ezio Pinza. But I like the first four the best, and yes, one is another tenor. I love light voices that rely on elegance, diction, breath control, agility, etc. rather than sheer power, loudness, and so on. The heavy voices are why I avoided opera for most of my life. That said, I completely misjudged Beniamino Gigli, and I realise that now. Previously, I only heard him sing in a powerful, dramatic tenor voice. But I recently found two videos that made me completely reassess him, and another that reaffirmed my new findings. He could and did often sing that way, and it suited his voice well. But he could also sing with extreme softness and was an absolute master of dynamics, to the point that I could barely recognise him! So I had to add him to my list of singers that I like and also find amazing. If anyone has any suggestions of other singers I may enjoy, please let me know. I tend to stay with ones who began their careers prior to the 1950's.

#baritones#basses#opera
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Ben! (Boo!)

Well it looks like my relationship with #Opera is over after a couple years, suddenly today they have started putting an Aria ( their #AI bullshit) widget in every single text box I open including social media posts, despite having every Aria option turned off in the settings.

Does anybody have suggestions for alternative #browser which isn't Brave or Firefox?

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Project Gutenberg

#OTD in 1925.

Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortilèges (written from 1917 to 1925), to a libretto by Colette, is premiered at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.

After being offered the opportunity to write a musical work, Colette wrote the text in eight days. Several composers had proposed to Colette that she write to music, but she was only excited by the prospect of Ravel.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27enfa

L'enfant et les sortilèges at the IMSLP:
imslp.org/wiki/L%27enfant_et_l

Cover of the piano reduction, illustrated by André Hellé, 1925. André Hellé - Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris - département Musique Hellé’s playful and expressive artwork reflects the opera’s imaginative spirit, drawing viewers into a surreal realm where furniture dances, teacups sing, and a garden comes alive. The charming visual design is both a reflection of the child’s imagination and an artistic complement to Ravel’s rich, colorful music.
#music#opera
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Nearly Normal Norm

If you want to know how powerful and influential the arts are consider the efforts to ban, cancel, influence and manipulate them made by current and past extremist governments.

The Emporer Augustus, Hitler and Stalin (to mention just a few) all had a real fear of the potency of the arts and how they affect hearts and minds.

And now it's Trump's turn.

Don't imagine that Dutton and his band of ignorant little Philistines would be any different.

Bereft as they are of creativity they will not recognise the value of it in others.

#art
#poetry
#theatre
#opera
#literature

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Bruce MacDonald

I was listening to the Met Opera's broadcast of Fidelio Saturday when out of the blue came that short musical phrase that Radio Deutsche Welle used to plink out on the celesta.

The familiar tune was used as its interval signal on shortwave to assist listeners tuning in.

I never knew where that little tune came from! Why, it's Beethoven, of course.

And now it's been stuck in my head all weekend.

The German national broadcaster has a nice write-up on the evolution of the DW signature tune. H/T The SWLing Post.

"DW has long since evolved from a radio broadcaster to a multimedia provider.

"Its signature tunes have also been produced for television and online programs and formats.

"With each new production, the basic tune has evolved and by now contains only fragments of the original yet maintains its spirit."
dw.com/en/beethoven-on-the-air

Deutschland Komponist Ludwig van Beethoven
Deutsche Welle · Evolution of the DW signature tuneBy Rick Fulker
#shortwave#opera#Beethoven
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