Posted by platinumbride on September 1, 2005, at 9:33:59
In reply to Re: questions about opera for platinumbride! » platinumbride, posted by JenStar on August 31, 2005, at 12:21:47
You know, you have good taste :-)
I perfer the retired or dead singers for the most part, but Rene Flemming is a beautiful soprano - especially in Mozart. I'm not a huge Wagner fan either, unless Placido Domingo is singing it.
There is a tenor who I actually worked with in Pittsburgh, named Rolando Villazon. He opened at the Met, last year I think, with Rene Flemming in Traviata. He released his first CD last year. If you watched the PBS updated Boheme a few years ago, he was the Rodolfo. I think that he may be destined for greatness.
I think that my favorite operas and singers vary by mood...(gee, that's a surprise from a person with a mood disorder ha ha). Maybe my all-time general fave soprano is Renata Tebaldi - especially her early recordings. I love Leontyne Price, Renata Scotto, Callas and Caballe too... There are just too many tenors for me to mention - Franco Corelli, Domingo, Pavarotti, Bergonzi...
I keep trying to find a voice teacher, but something always gets in the way these days. It's kind of weird. Hard enough for me to muster up the courage to open my mouth and sing. Oh well....I don't know what I am going to do about this...it's a lousy business and not for the feint of heart. But, truth be told, there aer thousands of singers like me in New York...there was just never anything else we wanted to do, but it didnt' work out.I'm not even in NYC anymore...mental breakdowns have a way of making you lose your apartment and ability to work, etc.
Care to tell me a bit about you? I always like to know what prompts a person to love an art form that is not mainstream. Do you just respond to the beauty of voice or the music or the whole thing put together?
Take care,
Diane
> hi Diane,
> I've never listed to Anna Bolena...I'll have to find it and see.
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> My favorites include Don Giovanni (of course!), L'Elisir d'Amour, Die Fledermaus, Le Nozze de Figaro, Tosca, Pagliacci. I have never much cared for Wagner's operas as a whole, although I enjoy bits and pieces of them. And I love certain arias or duets from other operas like Pearl Fishers, Martha, La Wally, and the rest of Mozart.
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> Who do you think are the best new 'up and coming' tenors these days? Do you have any favorites? How about sopranos/etc?
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> thanks!
> take care,
> JenStar
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> I'll have to listen to Lucia again!
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