#Mirella Freni

[princesssarisa]

Opera lovers are always fanatical about their favorite singers and ready to tear down anyone else who sings the same roles. But one of the stupidest trends is when they say "[insert singer here] is overrated. People only like them because they're good-looking."

Not that this can't be true, but I've seen that remark applied to singers I would never apply it to.

I've seen some people imply that Mirella Freni was only a star because she was pretty. Honestly?! Freni was cute, but hardly the most conventional beauty, and while of course it's valid to find other sopranos more interesting (e.g. those with less sweet but more "textured" voices and more incisive acting, like Maria Callas or Renata Scotto), who can deny that her voice was gorgeous?

Or how about people who say that Jonas Kaufmann is only popular because he's handsome?! I agree that he is handsome, but I think he would still be a thrilling performer if he were homelier, yet still had the same dramatic voice, passion, and stage presence!

People can like or dislike who they choose but the "people only like them for this or that reason" accusations always fall flat.

[operaqueen]

Julie Andrews visits Mirella Freni, Franco Corelli, and Birgit Nilsson - after a performance of Turandot - at the Metropolitan Opera. New york, late 1960’s.

[tenorissimi]

FRANCO CORELLI in:

Il Trovatore, VERDI

Romeo et Juliette, GOUNOD, con Mirella Freni.

Romeo et Juliette, GOUNOD, con Mirella Freni.

Romeo et Juliette, GOUNOD con Mirella Freni.

TURANDOT, PUCCINI, Con Nicolai Ghiaurov & Mirella Freni.

La Battaglia di Legnano (VERDI), con Antonietta Stella & Ettore Bastianini. Copyright ©️ Teatro alla Scala di Milano.

VERDI's *La Forza del Destino* as Don Alvaro.

VERDI's *La Forza del Destino* as Don Alvaro.

VERDI's *La Forza del Destino* as Don Alvaro.

VERDI's *La Forza del Destino" as Don Alvaro.

[vera-dauriac]

In case anyone was wondering what my favorite Eugene Onegin on Spotify is.

[4operalove]

RENATA SCOTTO with

Tito Gobbi

Ettore Bastianini

MARÍA CALLAS

MARÍA CALLAS

Jaume Aragall

Alfredo Kraus

Renata Tebaldi

Giulietta Simionato. Copyright ©️ L'Unita, Italia 🇮🇹.

Mirella Freni

Mirella Freni.

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

was today years old when i learned this existed and my life has greatly improved for it

[lucygold95]

[English sub)Great Mimìs(Puccini's Opera La Bohème: Tebaldi,Ángeles,Freni/+ Musical Rent: Rubin-Vega)' Act 1 Videos]

Playlist - Opera × Musical: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxVjmfb0YlsHe7t0qxqpLWyM1S5OYhpjP

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0:01 Pictures - Tebaldi as Mimì and Corelli(40:34) as Rodolfo

0:14 1.<Renata Tebaldi & Jussi Björling>, 1956(with English subtitles)

1:57 Che gelida manina(= What a frozen little hand/Jussi Björling)5:21

6:17 Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì(=Yes. They call me Mimì/Renata Tebaldi & Jussi Björling)8:58

11:29 O soave fanciulla(=O lovely girl/Renata Tebaldi & Jussi Björling)14:50 15:00

2.<Victoria de los Ángeles>(with English subtitles)

15:23 Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì(=Yes. They call me Mimì/Victoria de los Ángeles & Barry Morell(Act-Brian Sullivan)/Audio-1960, live/Video-1961)17:45

20:03 O soave fanciulla(=O lovely girl/Victoria de los Ángeles & Jussi Björling(Act-Brian Sullivan)/Audio-1956, studio/Video-1961)23:30 23:45

3.<Mirella Freni>(I didn't add English subtitles here)

24:08 Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì(=Yes. They call me Mimì/Mirella Freni & Gianni Raimondi, 1965, film)26:45

29:15 O soave fanciulla(=O lovely girl/Mirella Freni & Luciano Pavarotti, 1965)32:21 32:32

(Personally, I prefer Di Stefano, Gigli and Aragall more, but anyway Pavarotti was good Rodolfo too.)

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<Musical Rent>

32:54 One Song Glory(Adam Pascal(Original Broadway Roger), 1996)

35:38 Light My Candle(Adam Pascal & Daphne Rubin-Vega(Original(New York Theatre Workshop) Mimi and Original Broadway Mimi, 1996)

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39:45 Your Eyes(Adam Pascal)(Musetta's Waltz Melody+La Bohème Final Scene)

40:34 La Bohème Final Scene(Franco Corelli, 1965, live)

[Related Works of Art: La Dame aux Camélias, La Traviata, Leoncavallo's La bohème, Starlight Express, Moulin Rouge!...]

[sunset-supergirl]

Happy birthday Mirella Freni

[perfettamentechic]

9 febbraio … ricordiamo …

9 febbraio … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2022: André Wilms, attore francese. Nel 1989 partecipò al film L’insolito caso di Mr. Hire. Apparve anche in film tedeschi, tra cui Europa Europa, e finlandesi, tra cui alcuni lungometraggi; per uno di questi, Vita da bohème, ottenne il Premio per miglior attore non protagonista agli European Film Awards del 1992. Nel 2017 affiancò Charlotte Rampling nel film Hannah. (n.1947) 2020: Mirella Freni,…

[lesser-known-composers]

Riccardo Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini / Act 3 - "Paolo, datemi pace!" ·

Mirella Freni · Orchestra Del Gran Teatro La Fenice · Roberto Abbado

[tenorissimi]

FRANCO CORELLI

Gorgeous color photo. Copyright ©️ EMI Angel Records.

Young CORELLI. Source: Franco Corelli Info.

With the Great Tenor GIUSEPPE di STEFANO.

With MIRELLA FRENI, after recording GOUNOD's *Romeo et Juliette*Copyright ©️ EMI Angel Records.

With Teresa Syllis+Gara.

With RENATA TEBALDI in VERDI'S La Forza del Destino.

As Dick Johnson RAMERREZ in PUCCINI'S La Fanciulla del West.

As ANDREA CHENIER.

As Enzo Grimaldo in PONCHIELLI's La Gioconda.

As Canio in LEONCAVALLO's I Pagliacci. Collage and edition by Luz Butron Soprano.

[princesssarisa]

Opera on YouTube, Part 2

Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1973 (Knut Skram, Ileana Cotrubas, Kiri Te Kanawa, Benjamin Luxon; conducted by John Pritchard; English subtitles)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1976 (Hermann Prey, Mirella Freni, Kiri Te Kanawa, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; conducted by Karl Böhm; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Tokyo National Theatre, 1980 (Hermann Prey, Lucia Popp, Gundula Janowitz, Bernd Weikl; conducted by Karl Böhm; Japanese subtitles)

Théâtre du Châtelet, 1993 (Bryn Terfel, Alison Hagley, Hillevi Martinpelto, Rodney Gilfry; conducted by John Eliot Gardiner; Italian subtitles)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1994 (Gerald Finley, Alison Hagley, Renée Fleming, Andreas Schmidt; conducted by Bernard Haitink; English subtitles)

Zürich Opera House, 1996 (Carlos Chaussón, Isabel Rey, Eva Mei, Rodney Gilfry; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; English subtitles)

Berlin State Opera, 2005 (Lauri Vasar, Anna Prohaska, Dorothea Röschmann, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo; conducted by Gustavo Dudamel; French subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2006 (Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Anna Netrebko, Dorothea Röschmann, Bo Skovhus; conducted by Nikolas Harnoncourt; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Teatro all Scala, 2006 (Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Diana Damrau, Marcella Orasatti Talamanca, Pietro Spagnoli; conducted by Gérard Korsten; English and Italian subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2015 (Adam Plachetka, Martina Janková, Anett Fritsch, Luca Pisaroni; conducted by Dan Ettinger; no subtitles)

Tosca

Carmine Gallone studio film, 1956 (Franca Duval dubbed by Maria Caniglia, Franco Corelli, Afro Poli dubbed by Giangiacomo Guelfi; conducted by Oliviero de Fabritiis; no subtitles)

Gianfranco de Bosio film, 1976 (Raina Kabaivanska, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes; conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1978 (Shirley Verrett, Luciano Pavarotti, Cornell MacNeil; conducted by James Conlon; no subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 1984 (Eva Marton, Jaume Aragall, Ingvar Wixell; conducted by Daniel Oren; no subtitles)

Teatro Real de Madrid, 2004 (Daniela Dessí, Fabio Armiliato, Ruggero Raimondi; conducted by Maurizio Benini; English subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2011 (Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel; conducted by Antonio Pappano; English subtitles)

Finnish National Opera, 2018 (Ausrinė Stundytė, Andrea Carè, Tuomas Pursio; conducted by Patrick Fournillier; English subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala 2019 (Anna Netrebko, Francesco Meli, Luca Salsi; conducted by Riccardo Chailly; Hungarian subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2019 (Sondra Radvanovsky, Piotr Beczala, Thomas Hampson; conducted by Marco Armiliato; English subtitles)

Ópera de las Palmas, 2024 (Erika Grimaldi, Piotr Beczala, George Gagnidze; conducted by Ramón Tebar; no subtitles)

Don Giovanni

Salzburg Festival, 1954 (Cesare Siepi, Otto Edelmann, Elisabeth Grümmer, Lisa della Casa; conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler; English subtitles)

Giacomo Vaccari studio film, 1960 (Mario Petri, Sesto Bruscantini, Teresa Stich-Randall, Leyla Gencer; conducted by Francesco Molinari-Pradelli; no subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 1987 (Samuel Ramey, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Julia Varady; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; no subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 1987 (Thomas Allen, Claudio Desderi, Edita Gruberova, Ann Murray; conducted by Riccardo Muti; English subtitles)

Peter Sellars studio film, 1990 (Eugene Perry, Herbert Perry, Dominique Labelle, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson; conducted by Craig Smith; English subtitles)

Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, 1997 (Simon Keenlyside, Bryn Terfel, Carmela Remigio, Anna Caterina Antonacci; conducted by Claudio Abbado; no subtitles) – Act I, Act II

Zürich Opera, 2000 (Rodney Gilfry, László Polgár, Isabel Rey, Cecilia Bartoli; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; English subtitles)

Festival Aix-en-Provence, 2002 (Peter Mattei, Gilles Cachemaille, Alexandra Deshorties, Mirielle Delunsch; conducted by Daniel Harding; no subtitles)

Teatro Real de Madrid, 2006 (Carlos Álvarez, Lorenzo Regazzo, Maria Bayo, Sonia Ganassi; conducted by Victor Pablo Pérez; English subtitles)

Festival Aix-en-Provence, 2017 (Philippe Sly, Nahuel de Pierro, Eleonora Burratto, Isabel Leonard; conducted by Jérémie Rohrer; English subtitles)

Madama Butterfly

Mario Lanfranchi studio film, 1956 (Anna Moffo, Renato Cioni; conducted by Oliviero de Fabritiis; no subtitles)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1974 (Mirella Freni, Plácido Domingo; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; English subtitles)

New York City Opera, 1982 (Judith Haddon, Jerry Hadley; conducted by Christopher Keene; English subtitles)

Frédéric Mitterand film, 1995 (Ying Huang, Richard Troxell; conducted by James Conlon; English subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 2004 (Fiorenza Cedolins, Marcello Giordani; conducted by Daniel Oren; Spanish subtitles)

Sferisterio Opera Festival, 2009 (Raffaela Angeletti, Massimiliano Pisapia; conducted by Daniele Callegari; no subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2017 (Maria José Siri, Murat Karahan; conducted by Jonathan Darlington; no subtitles)

Wichita Grand Opera, 2017 (Yunnie Park, Kirk Dougherty; conducted by Martin Mazik; English subtitles)

Teatro San Carlo, 2019 (Evgenia Muraveva, Saimir Pirgu; conducted by Gabriele Ferro; no subtitles)

Rennes Opera House, 2022 (Karah Son, Angelo Villari; conducted by Rudolf Piehlmayer; French subtitles)

[4operalove]

CESARE SIEPI as Don GIOVANNI, title role in MOZART'S opera Masterpiece with Leontyne Price, Elizabeth Schwartzkopf & Mirella Freni.

[randomestfandoms-ocs]

New OUAT OCs

this is all @the-witching-ash's fault for encouraging me to make a new oc to ship with Graham and now instead I have 10...

Angel Dearly | Anita Dumas in Long Live: Anita Radcliffe in the Enchanted Forest but has not married Roger so keeps her maiden name, Dumas. In Storybrooke she's a waitress at Granny's Diner who dreams of moving away and becoming a fashion designer. Shipped with @the-witching-ash's Roman Taylor | Roger Radcliffe and is Anastasia Dearly | Adelaide Dumas' granddaughter*

Named Angel for its similarities to Anita; Dearly for Anita's last name in the live action movie, and Dumas for Alexandre Dumas the French author/playwright

*this is specifically in Long Live/the crossover, theoretically she has a solo verse shipped with Graham but I only care about the crossover

Alissa Thorn | Priscilla Page in Dear Reader: Priscilla Page (from the Fables comics) in the Enchanted Forest, in Storybrooke she is the middle child between her sisters, her job is still TBD

Named Alissa as it means Wanderer, and Priscilla's place of power is the open road

Corrina Mills | Persephone in Rite Of Spring: Regina & Zelena's younger half sister, named after her mother Cora. She is Persephone in the Enchanted Forest and in Storybrooke she's Corrina Mills, Regina's younger sister and the only person who can leave Storybrooke without any issue but she either always finds herself returning without meaning to or she forgets about Storybrooke when she's out of the bubble and forgets about the "real world" when she's in Storybrooke. Her father is Rumplestiltskin, and she is most likely going to be shipped with Graham

Named Corrina both for her mother, Cora, and because it's a variation of Kore, which is another name for Persephone

Dove Thorn | Robin Page in Dear Reader: The youngest of the Page/Thorn sisters. In the Enchanted Forest she is Robin Page (from the Fables comics), and in Storybrooke she is Dove Thorn, Alissa & Evelyn's younger sister who works somewhere in the Sheriff's Department.

Named Dove as it is a type of bird, like Robin

Eilwony in Rabbit Heart: Eilwony from the Black Cauldron. She was a captive to Regina in the Enchanted Forest and is still captive through the curse. Because of being in Regina's castle, she was not affected by the curse and has kept all of her memories, but she can't escape or do anything with that knowledge until Henry Mills finds her and helps to rescue her. Daughter of a magic user, but I haven't decided which one yet.

(name does not change as she does not have a Storybrooke version of herself)

Evelyn Thorn | Hillary Page in Dear Reader: The oldest Thorn sister, she's Hillary Page (from the Fables comics) in the Enchanted Forest. In Storybrooke she's Evelyn Thorn, who "recently" took over her mother's job as the elementary school librarian.

Named Evelyn after the most iconic librarian around, Evelyn O'Connell from The Mummy

Mirella Gold | Christine Daae in Once Upon A Song: Christine Daae (Phantom Of The Opera) in the Enchanted Forest, Rumplestiltskin takes on the role of her phantom in many ways. In Storybrooke she is Mirella Gold, who works as a personal assistant (tbd to who) but dreams of becoming a songwriter. She is raised by Mr Gold, but I haven't decided yet if she knows that she's adopted or believes that he's her father. Might be shipped with Graham.

Named Mirella after Mirella Freni, considered one of the best opera singers of all time

(in my heart, @the-witching-ash's Adelaide | Anastasia is her music teacher 🥺 )

Nieva in Eatnamen Vuelie: Nieva is Elsa's daughter, who Elsa does not know exists, and sadly that's all that I know so far!

Named Nieva as it means Snow, her name does not change as she does not have a Storybrooke version of herself

Paige Thorn | Prose Page in Dear Reader: Prose Page (from the Fables comics) in the Enchanted Forest. In Storybrooke she is Paige Thorn, English teacher turned school librarian who "recently" quit her job to open her own bookstore, leaving her eldest daughter to become the new librarian.

Named Paige as a pun on Prose Page's last name

Sadie “Sugar” Monroe | Charlotte LaBouff in Sweet Nothing: Charlotte LaBouff in the Enchanted Forest. In Storybrooke she is Sadie Monroe (but everyone calls her Sugar), a pageant princess rich girl with a heart of gold. She is an event planner and organizes plenty of town events and fundraisers, and will be shipped with either Graham or David.

Named Sadie as it is a common Southern girl name and nicknamed Sugar because it is a common nickname in the South (both chosen as a nod to Charlotte LaBouff being a Southern Belle), last name Monroe as Lottie's design was inspired by Marilyn Monroe

(ps thank you @ginevrastilinski-ocs for the help is naming Nieva and Sugar!)

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

tagged by @kerfluffel to shuffle my spotify “on repeat” playlist and post the first 10 songs.

so. here’s the Official Spotify-Made On Repeat Selection

1. verdi’s don carlo: “nei giardin del bello” sung by shirley verrett

2. the oh hellos: “on the mountain tall”

3. sufjan stevens: “so you are tired”

4. beethoven’s incidental music for “the ruins of athens”: turkish march

5. delibes’ “les filles de cadix”, sung by victoria de los angeles

6. the chordettes: mr. sandman

7. verdi’s otello: “una vela! una vela!” from the recording with jon vickers and mirella freni

8. mon rovîa: “to watch the world spin without you”

9. mary poppins: “i love to laugh”

10. woodkid: “run boy run—instrumental”

tagging uh. anyone interested!