Classical Music

[bioniczeenger]

just finished watching anna netrebko's o mio babbino caro at you tube. galing na ganda pa. whewwww.

[manny a. quito]

Placido Domingo, Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón in their finale number --

Franz Lehár's Das Land des Lächelns: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz

 

Watch YouTube Clip

[snowflake]

almost had an orgasm after watching her sing hehehe. i also checked out sumi jo's version. finally i came!!!!

 

 

Sorry, now lang ako nakagamit ng pc na may speaker. Nag iiba ang quality ng voice ni Netrebko sa upper register...but what the heck! Ganda niya. Someone should get her in a bathtub commercial! Sigurado patok yun! Akala ko nga si Rachel Weisz na tumaba eh! LOL!

Edited May 11, 2008 by snowflake

[snowflake]

my favorite tenor jussi bjorling with the great renata tebaldi sing o soave fanciulla http://youtube.com/watch?v=EZJqR_8uE9s&feature=related

 

 

Bjoerling rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Patay na siya for more than 60 years, pero I have yet to hear someone comparable to this guy! Lashenggo lang! (Early member ng alcoholics anonymous LOL!)

 

Though he sounds like Christopher Cross, don't you agree Zeenger?

[snowflake]

Placido Domingo, Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón in their finale number --

Franz Lehár's Das Land des Lächelns: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz

 

Watch YouTube Clip

 

Manny,

 

Ganda ng concert venue! Naiingit ako, patok ang operatic concert dun. Here puro pala' tayo, dun talagang paying audience! Domingo's voice didn't change there, ganda ng aria.

Edited May 11, 2008 by snowflake

[manny a. quito]

The venue has a bit of historical notoriety.

 

The Waldbühne, or Forest Theatre, was built, as part of the complex used for the Hitler-era 1936 Summer Olympics, by incorporating the glacial river banks of the Berlin Urstromtal. It is a reproduction of the old 3rd century BC theater of Epidaurus and was then named "Dietrich-Eckart-Bühne" in homage to the Nazi ideologue Dietrich Eckart.

 

The Berlin Concert involving Domingo, Netrebko and Villazon was held in conjunction with the World Cup football tournament, following a modern tradition of capping a sports event with an operatic performance began by Pavarotti.

 

End of lecture... heh, heh.

[snowflake]

Still I loved the venue Manny. Sayang di nag click dito sa atin ang concert nila.

[manny a. quito]

Here's a bit of eye and ear candy for you. But this girl wields a mean Strad (yes, she really plays a 1727 Stradivarius) and will definitely be taken seriously in the league of Anne-Sophie Mutter, one day.

 

 

Track List:

 

1. Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64 - 1. Allegro molto appassionato

2. Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64 - 2. Andante

3. Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64 - 3. Allegro non troppo - Allegro molto vivace

4. Romance in F for Viola & Orchestra, Op.85

5. Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.26 - 1. Vorspiel (Allegro moderato)

6. Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.26 - 2. Adagio

7. Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.26 - 3. Finale (Allegro energico)

[manny a. quito]

A very rare clip of Dame Joan Sutherland and Huguette Tourangeau in 1976 Sydney Opera production of Delibes' Lakme

 

[manny a. quito]

This is Sumi Jo and Ah-Kyung Lee attempting the same duet:

 

 

Methinks, it needs a little more lyricism.

[manny a. quito]

You may never have heard of Spike Jones, but he was a musical celebrity of a different sort, way back when.

 

Here is his take on Bizet's Carmen. It's roughly a 3 mb download. Uncompress using WinRAR and you will get an MP3 file. This is only part one of four parts. The original came from a 45 rpm vinyl record (if any of you still know what that is).

 

 

Click here to download.

 

Tell me if you like it.

Edited May 12, 2008 by manny a. quito

[manny a. quito]

Mario Lanza (real name Alfredo Arnold Cocozza) as The Great Caruso

 

 

This DVD is most probably an inferior-quality transfer from VHS, not yet digitally remastered, but the only one available so far.

 

The soundtrack features the following:

 

01. Pagliacci: Vesti la Giubba (Ruggero Leoncavallo)

02. Magnificat (Johann Sebastian Bach)

03. 'A Vucchella (Paolo Tosti & Gabriele D'Annunzio)

04. La Danza (Gioacchino Rossini)

05. Consecration Scene /Voglio Avvertirlo Io Stessa [From Aida] (Giuseppe Verdi)

06. Donna E Mobile [From Rigoleto] (Giuseppe Verdi)

07. Numi Pietà [From Aida] (Giuseppe Verdi)

08. Celeste Aida [From Aida] (Giuseppe Verdi)

09. Torna a Surriento (Ernesto de Curtis)

10. O Terra, Addio [From Aida] (Giuseppe Verdi)

11. Che Gelida Manina [From La Bohème] (Giacomo Puccini)

12. Mattinata (Ruggero Leoncavallo)

13. Miserere/Trio/E Lucevan le Stelle/Brindisi [From Il Trovatore/Rigoletto/Tosca/Cavalleria Rusticana] ... (Giuseppe Verdi/Giacomo Puccini/Pietro Mascagni)

14. Sweethearts [From Sweet Hearts] (Victor Herbert & Harry B. Smith)

15. Recitativo/Vesti la Giubba [From Pagliacci] (Ruggero Leoncavallo)

16. Ave Maria (Johann Sebastian Bach & Charles Gounod)

17. Loveliest Night of the Year (Juventino Rosas)

18. Sesteto [From Lucia di Lammermoor] (Gaetano Donizetti)

19. Because (Guy D'Hardelot)

20. M'Appari [From Martha] (Friedrich von Flotow)

21. Finale [From Martha] (Friedrich von Flotow)

22. Mamma Mia, Che Vo' Sapè? (Emanuele Nutile)

23. Core 'Ngrato (Marcello da Capua)

24. O Paradiso (L'Africaine) [From Because You're Mine] (Giacomo Meyerbeer)

25. Che Gelida Manina [From La Bohème] (Giacomo Puccini)

26. Fleur Que Tu M'Avais Jetee [From Carmen] (Georges Bizet)

27. Libiamo, Libiamo, Ne' Lieti Calice [From La Traviata] (Giuseppe Verdi)

Edited May 13, 2008 by manny a. quito

[bioniczeenger]

Mario Lanza as The Great Caruso

 

 

This DVD is most probably an inferior-quality transfer from VHS, not yet digitally remastered, but the only one available so far.

yap i have a copy of this one na. bought it at metrowalk ok naman. i think the story was so embellished that they really twisted the facts.

[manny a. quito]

Hollywood has never shrank from embellishing a biopic when it deems the subject not dramatic enough to sell the picture. Though in the case of the sanitized Cary Grant starrer Night and Day about composer Cole Porter, they also did not shy away from covering up what was then scandalous behavior of the subject (i.e. drugs and homosexuality). Compare the recent Kevin Kline depiction in De-Lovely, which was rather frank.

 

This is The Student Prince DVD:

 

 

Edmund Purdom lip-synched to the singing voice of Mario Lanza (considered his finest performance in English).

The music was composed by the Hungarian composer Sigmund Romberg.

[snowflake]

Zeenger,

 

Do you have a copy of the opera Manon Lescaut (Puccini) as sung by Jussi Bjoerling and Licia Albanese?

 

Thanks for the reply

Edited May 13, 2008 by snowflake