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52 x 52 Week 2

If outdoor opera is magical, then outdoor operetta lakeside is utterly enchanting. Der Vogelhändler (Carl Zeller) at Mörbisch – a cast of thousands, a spectacle extraordinaire, lavish costumes, lavish scenery and a plot so complicated that I’m not even going…
Del
August 20, 2017
52 x 52BlogOpera

52 x 52 Week 1

Stone quarry, giant chandelier, stage-set, mostly red. Verdi’s Rigoletto. Breath-taking. There’s something magical about opera al fresco – unless, of course, it’s raining. Red symbolises “passionate love, seduction, violence, danger, anger, and adventure” (colormatters.com). And Rigoletto has it all. But…
Del
August 13, 2017
BlogOpera

Oh bat, oh bat

Today’s choice is a rather obvious one, for which I make no apology, as we need to finish the year on a high. For the ultimate New Year jollity, there is nothing to beat Strauss’s Die Fledermaus. As my one…
Del
December 31, 2016
BlogOpera

I want to live in the dream that thrills me

A notable omission from the opera play-list, so far, is Gounod, but that’s being rectified as we speak with the addition of Maria Callas singing Je veux vivre dans ce rêvre qui m’enivre. The aria is from Romeo et Juliette.…
Del
December 30, 2016
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At the back of the holy temple

Or at the side of the holy church, as temples didn’t feature on our morning perambulation, whereas a church is easy to find as you’re never far away from one in Vienna. Today’s choices are two magnificent pieces from La…
Del
December 29, 2016
BlogOpera

This ball is unusual

Today we’re off to the underworld, which means we can add four tracks to the playlist thus filling in some of those gaps. Jacopo Peri (1581 – 1633) was an Italian, who wrote the first opera ever, so he definitely…
Del
December 28, 2016