Monthly Archives: July 2010
do you remember the ring?
Courtesy the great Anna Russell, here’s pretty much everything you need to know about today’s opera at Bayreuth, Siegfried. (For the record, Siegfried is my favorite part of the Ring, but I’ll admit that it’s not an easy work to love.)
nur eine waffe taugt
To mark the opening of the Ring Cycle at Bayreuth this week, I posted three recordings of Wotan’s Farewell yesterday. Today’s offering on the Green Hill is Parsifal, so I thought we might listen to a few different approaches to … Continue reading
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leb’ wohl
The 2010 Bayreuth Festival Ring Cycle opens this week, and I can’t think of a better excuse for posting sound clips of great Wagner singers of the past than that. In honor of today’s opera, Die Walküre, here are three versions … Continue reading
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super scene
One of my favorite moments in the season premiere of Mad Men last night was this little exchange between the now-divorced Don Draper and his dinner date, a young woman named Bethany, at Jimmy’s La Grange: DON: So, what do … Continue reading
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conducting mahler
I shared this recently on Facebook, but it deserves a posting here as well. Bernard Haitink’s reaction at the very end of the clip is priceless.
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solemn, slight or beautiful
Thanks to a relatively small but still impressive discography, we tend to associate Dame Janet Baker with a specific body of solo and operatic repertoire by such European-born composers such as Elgar, Britten, Mahler, Berlioz, Schubert, Handel, and Mozart. It … Continue reading
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round two
I’m baaaaack! Did you miss me? Five month ago today, I published what I thought was going to be my final blog entry. After working on it for almost a year and half, I decided to pull the plug and move on … Continue reading
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