THE RACISM IN OPERA AND CLASSICAL MUSIC IS STILL HORRIFYING. AT LEAST GET RID OF THE REVOLTING BLACK FACE. Great voice and beautiful woman, but it doesn't justify the racism of today's nor the time.
Una bellísima ópera que para nada merece el segundo plano en el que ha quedado en relación con la obra homónima de Puccini. La versión me ha parecido visual y musicalmente excelente.
@CaoDEC0313 3 years ago 0:00 FRANZ SCHUBERT "An die Musik" 3:48 C.W.GLUK "Einem Bach der Fliesst" 6:38 W.A.MOZART "Warnung" 9:22 W.A.MOZART "Meine Wüsche" 12:55 FRANZ SCHUBERT "Seligkeit" 15:09 FRANZ SCHUBERT "An Sylvia" 18:46 ROBERT SCHUMANN "Der Nussbaum" 22:58 JOHANNES BRAHMS "Vergebliches Ständchen" 24:55 JOHANNES BRAHMS "Da unten im Tale" 28:06 GUSTAV MAHLER "Lob des hohen Verstands" 31:33 HUGO WOLF "Das verlassene Magdlein" 35:09 HUGO WOLF "In dem Schatten meiner Locken" 37:48 RICHARD STRAUSS "Morgen" 41:48 RICHARD STRAUSS "Hat gesagt bleibt's nicht dabei" 43:45 Old Song "Drink to me only with thine eyes"
Is there more than one version of the line retro for this opera/oratorio? I ask this because the video does not match an LP recording I have from the mid-late 1970s nor does it match the synopsis of the work in Wikipedia. (My Lp matches the Wikipedia synopsis.)
In a documentary Stravinsky said that he asked the librettist to write a banal libretto and that he, Stravinsky, didn't like the first two librettos he wrote and he the librettist wrote 2 more to satisfy Stravinsky because he liked him. I have absolutely no idea if the prior two librettos (which should be in French?? i think?) are out there though.
"Un vecchio come lei non può far nulla": così dice Despina al poco più che adolescente don Alfonso... è la solita messinscena o messinscema ultracoformista, insulsa e sconcia, che travisa, strania e rende impossibile guardare un'opera, senza un travaso di bile. Com'è cominciato questo andazzo? Non sono parole mie: "se a uno stupido viene in mente una mostruosità, subito un centinaio di altri stupidi la innalzano a precetto e la copiano": ecco nata la contemporanea regìa d'opera.
