emma · @emmaaum
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Ludovic Tezier's voice 💖 💖


The plot is absolutely one I shouldn't get on with, and if Puccini wrote it I'd likely flee from it as fast as I do his Scarpia. (No shade, Puccini just wrote evil *too* well for me.) But it's Verdi and the music is magnificent so I just ride the excitement from one glorious bit to another.

Plus Ludovic Tezier.

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001n966

#iltrovatore #opera #operaon3

Last updated 2 years ago

emma · @emmaaum
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i've made it through an hour of modern opera Everest and i think i've had enough. stuff of nightmares and my brain isn't clever enough to appreciate the soundscape approach to music. don't need to hear them die either.

#operaon3

Last updated 2 years ago

emma · @emmaaum
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Eric Owens jazz-opera "aria" was my favourite bit of Champion. it will be on BBC Sounds for a 4 weeks now. based on a real life boxer who was black and gay. Stephanie Blythe too showing her versitility, and Ryan Speedo Green.

#operaon3 #BlackMastodon

Last updated 2 years ago

emma · @emmaaum
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Idomeneo this week's , which I've only heard maybe twice before. Don't know if I'd be able to name it as without knowing, cause my brain is declining that way, but I can hear the Mozart in it so I guess that's progress.

PS Wear your masks, long covid could do this to you.

#operaon3 #mozart #opera #mecfs #fibromyalgia

Last updated 2 years ago

emma · @emmaaum
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Lise Davidsen as the Marschallin 💖 💖
BBC Radio 3 now (also via their website)

#opera #metopera #operaon3 #derrosenkavalier

Last updated 2 years ago

emma · @emmaaum
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Bellini's Norma is thoroughly tremendous but I still prefer my alternative ending in which Norma and Adalgisa ditch the scummy cheating Roman tenor and live lesbianly ever after.



#letthesopranolive #opera #norma #Bellini #operaon3 #metopera

Last updated 2 years ago

emma · @emmaaum
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Piotr Beczała has perhaps at last persuaded me to Lohengrin.
Mind you, it could still be edited down a couple of hours.


#opera #metopera #operaon3 #piotrbeczala

Last updated 2 years ago

emma · @emmaaum
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i know i'm a bit emotional these days but Angel Blue's voice in near the end of Violetta's Il Dio duet with Germont brought tears.
so much emotion in her voice 💔

@opera

#latraviata #metopera #operaon3 #angelblue #opera #verdi

Last updated 2 years ago

emma · @emmaaum
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i think tonight's (BBC) is with Nina Stemme. was looking forward to it, not sure i'm up to the weight of it now.

#operaon3 #jenufa #opera #janacek

Last updated 3 years ago

emma · @emmaaum
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's L'elisir d'amore with Javier Camarena and Golda Schultz is especially delightful 💖

on BBC Sounds for a couple more weeks

#metopera #operaon3 #opera #donizetti #javiercamarena #goldaschultz #lelisirdamore

Last updated 3 years ago

emma · @emmaaum
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@patrickscheng @michaelboothroyd @classicalmusic
will get to hear it on BBC Radio 3 next Saturday, looking forward to it :) so great you were able to be there in person

#operaon3

Last updated 3 years ago

emma · @emmaaum
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Matthew Polenzani on Jason in Medea - "I don't think of him as a complete tool" 😂 😂

Opera isn't elitist. It's underappreciated 💖

@opera

#opera #metopera #Medea #operaon3

Last updated 3 years ago

emma · @emmaaum
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anyone listening to Armida (Dvořák) on Radio 3? first act gives the bass quite a work out :)
i know i don't have the most sophisticated ears but musically the score feels a bit kitchen sink, a bit of everything thrown in. great musicians are pulling it off well.

#dvorak #armida #operaon3 #opera

Last updated 3 years ago