On Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 2:26:08 PM UTC+11, gggg gggg wrote:
https://forty-five.com/papers/operas-ethics-and-elektra-a-return-to-the-recordings-of-john-culshaw
Especially if it's a videorecording, on disc or streaming, giving us the theatrical dimension, and with subtitles, so we can understand what's going on.
Then there's the historical aspect. I've just watched "The Barber" from the Met 30 years ago, with Enzo Dara and Kathleen Battle. Would Rosina be asked to sing so many embellishments - some more appropriate for Bellini and Donizetti - as Ms Battle sings
here?
Andrew Clarke
Canberra
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