Ludovic Tezier's voice 💖 💖

#IlTrovatore #Opera #OperaOn3
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.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001n966

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

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

Idomeneo this week's #OperaOn3, which I've only heard maybe twice before. Don't know if I'd be able to name it as #Mozart without knowing, cause my brain is declining that way, but I can hear the Mozart in it so I guess that's progress.

#Opera #MECFS #fibromyalgia

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

Lise Davidsen as the Marschallin 💖 💖
BBC Radio 3 now (also via their website)
#opera #MetOpera #OperaOn3
#DerRosenkavalier

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

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
#PiotrBeczała

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

#MetOpera #OperaOn3 #AngelBlue #Opera #Verdi @opera

i think tonight's #OperaOn3 (BBC) is #Jenůfa with Nina Stemme. was looking forward to it, not sure i'm up to the weight of it now.
#opera #Janáček

#MetOpera's L'elisir d'amore with Javier Camarena and Golda Schultz is especially delightful 💖

on BBC Sounds for a couple more weeks
#OperaOn3 #opéra #Donizetti #JavierCamarena #GoldaSchultz #LelisirDAmore

@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

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

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.
#Opera #Operaon3 #Armida #Dvořák