#agnes baltsa

[widevibratobitch]

i am so normal about her

[hadescavedish]

You'll probably love this. Btw the Greek mezzosoprano Agnes Baltsa is one of best opera singers I've heard. (She's famous for doing Carmen but she is also particularly good at Rossini) She had a full Carmen recording through the label Deutsche Grammophon)

@gaytobymeres

[mrbacf]

Agnes Baltsa; "Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix"; SAMSON ET DALILA; Camille Sa...

[elfinaldelcamino]

Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)

Bellini es conocido por sus ópera románticas de hermosas melodías de largo desarrollo. Nacido en Catania (Sicilia), recibió altos reconocimientos por su obra belcantista pese a su corta vida. Títulos como La straniera (1828), I Capuleti e i Montecchi (1830), Norma (1831), La sonnambula (1831) y su canto del cisne I Puritani (1834) le convierten en uno de los compositores imprescindibles para el repertorio de todos los teatros de ópera occidental.

Retrato de Vincenzo Bellini

I Puritani (1835) es sin duda una de las ópera más exitosas de Bellini. Nos transporta a tiempos de la guerra civil inglesa y acerca a los corazones de dos enamorados pertenecientes a los bandos enfrentados en ella: realistas y puritanos. Arias maravillosas como A te o cara o Son vergin vezzosa o Cinta di fiori dibujan una trama dramática escrita por Carlo Pepoli y estrenada y producida en el Théâtre-Italien de París gracias a la complicidad de Gioacchino Rossini.

I Puritani se estrenó en el Théâtre la Comédie-Italienne, o Théatre-Italien (Paris XIVème).

[exile2nd]

영화 '시라노; 연애조작단' 삽입곡. 무언가 울적할 때, 찾아 듣게 되는 노래.

[joaquimblog]

IL TROVATORE 3/5: AZUCENA

IL TROVATORE 3/5: AZUCENA

Avui tenim 39 Azucenes, que no és poc i que suposen un repte emocionant perquè aquest és per mi i malgrat la popularitat del rol del tenor i la seva malaltissa cabaletta, el personatge cabdal d’Il Trovatore, tant pel que significa en la vocalitat verdiana, el primer gran rol per a mezzosoprano, i l’única mare rellevant per aquesta tipologia vocal, ja que l’altre seria l’Alice,però va estar escrit…

[girlscarpia]

I'm using radio 3 classica as background during my study session and I was patiently wait for this neverending expressionist music piece to end when they announced they were going to air some rossini opera feat. ruggero raimondi 💀

[princesssarisa]

Opera on YouTube

I've shared links to complete opera performances before, but I love to share them, so I thought I'd make a few masterposts.

These list are by no means the only complete filmed performances of these operas on YouTube, but I decided that ten links for each opera was enough for now.

By the way, some of the subtitles are just a part of the video, while others require you to click CC to see them.

Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

Hamburg Philharmonic State Opera, 1971 (Nicolai Gedda, Edith Mathis, William Workman, Christina Deutekom, Hans Sotin; conducted by Horst Stein; English subtitles)

Ingmar Bergman film, 1975 (Josef Köstlinger, Irma Urrila, Håkan Hagegård, Birgit Nordin, Ulrik Cold; conducted by Eric Ericson; sung in Swedish; English subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 1982 (Peter Schreier, Ileana Cotrubas, Christian Bösch, Edita Gruberova, Martti Talvela; conducted by James Levine; Japanese subtitles)

Bavarian State Opera, 1983 (Francisco Araiza, Lucia Popp, Wolfgang Brendel, Edita Gruberova, Kurt Moll; conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1991 (Francisco Araiza, Kathleen Battle, Manfred Hemm, Luciana Serra, Kurt Moll; conducted by James Levine; English subtitles)

Paris Opera, 2001 (Piotr Beczala, Dorothea Röschmann, Detlef Roth, Desirée Rancatore, Matti Salminen; conducted by Ivan Fischer; no subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2003 (Will Hartman, Dorothea Röschmann, Simon Keenlyside, Diana Damrau, Franz Josef Selig; conducted by Colin Davis; no subtitles) – Act I, Act II

La Monnaie, Brussels, 2005 (Topi Lehtipuu, Sophie Karthäuser, Stephan Loger, Ana Camelia Stefanescu, Harry Peeters; conducted by René Jacobs; French subtitles)

Kenneth Branagh film, 2006 (Joseph Kaiser, Amy Carson, Benjamin Jay Davis, Lyubov Petrova, René Pape; conducted by James Conlon; sung in English)

San Francisco Opera, 2010 (Piotr Beczala, Dina Kuznetsoca, Christopher Maltman, Erika Miklósa, Georg Zeppenfeld; conducted by Donald Runnicles; English subtitles)

La Traviata

Mario Lanfrachi studio film, 1968 (Anna Moffo, Franco Bonisolli, Gino Bechi; conducted by Giuseppe Patané; English subtitles)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1987 (Marie McLaughlin, Walter MacNeil, Brent Ellis; conducted by Bernard Haitink; Italian and Portuguese subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 1992 (Tiziana Fabbricini, Roberto Alagna, Paolo Coni; conducted by Riccardo Muti; English subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1994 (Angela Gheorghiu, Frank Lopardo, Leo Nucci; conducted by Georg Solti; Spanish subtitles)

Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, 2003 (Stefania Bonfadelli, Scott Piper, Renato Bruson; conducted by Plácido Domingo; Spanish subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2005 (Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón, Thomas Hampson; conducted by Carlo Rizzi; no subtitles)

Los Angeles Opera, 2006 (Renée Fleming, Rolando Villazón, Renato Bruson; conducted by James Conlon; English subtitles)

Opera Festival St. Margarethen, 2008 (Kristiane Kaiser, Jean-Francois Borras, Georg Tichy; conducted by Ernst Märzendorfer; English subtitles)

Teatro Real di Madrid, 2015 (Ermonela Jaho, Francesco Demuro, Juan Jesús Rodríguez; conducted by Renato Palumbo; English subtitles)

Teatro Massimo, 2023 (Nino Machiadze, Saimir Pirgu, Roberto Frontali; conducted by Carlo Goldstein; no subtitles)

Carmen

Herbert von Karajan studio film, 1967 (Grace Bumbry, Jon Vickers; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; English subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 1978 (Elena Obraztsova, Plácido Domingo; conducted by Carlos Kleiber; English Subtitles)

Francisco Rosi film, 1982 (Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo; conducted by Lorin Maazel; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1987 (Agnes Baltsa, José Carreras; conducted by James Levine; English subtitles)

London Earls Court Arena, 1989 (Maria Ewing, Jacque Trussel; conducted by Jaques Delacote; English subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1991 (Maria Ewing, Luis Lima; conducted by Zubin Mehta; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Arena di Verona, 2003 (Marina Domashenko, Marco Berti; conducted by Alain Lombard; Italian subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2006 (Anna Caterina Antonacci, Jonas Kaufmann; conducted by Antonio Pappano; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Metropolitan Opera, 2010 (Elina Garanca, Roberto Alagna; conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Opéra-Comique, 2023 (Gaëlle Arquez, Frédéric Antoun; conducted by Louis Langrée; English subtitles)

La Bohéme

Franco Zeffirelli studio film, 1965 (Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1977 (Renata Scotto, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by James Levine; no subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 1979 (Ileana Cotrubas, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by Carlos Kleiber; no subtitles)

Opera Australia, 1993 (Cheryl Barker, David Hobson; conducted by Julian Smith; Brazilian Portuguese subtitles)

Teatro Regio di Torino, 1996 (Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by Daniel Oren; Italian subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 2003 (Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Marcelo Alvarez; conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; Spanish subtitles)

Zürich Opera House, 2005 (Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Marcello Giordani; conducted by Franz Welser-Möst; no subtitles)

Robert Dornhelm film, 2009 (Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón; conducted by Bertrand de Billy; no subtitles)

Opera Australia, 2011 (Takesha Meshé Kizart, Ji-Min Park; Shao-Chia Lü; no subtitles)

Sigulda Opera Festival, 2022 (Maija Kovalevska, Mihail Mihaylov; conducted by Vladimir Kiradjiev; English subtitles)

[bumblingest-bee]

i just like how completely unimpressed agnes baltsa's carmen is by escamillo

[respectablecapers]

tagged by @nablah

10 songs i've listened to recently

1. thespis (bruce montgomery version) [the whole thing but mainly the chorus parts]

2. l'elisir d'amore - udite udite o rustici (enzo dara)

3. samson et dalila - printemps qui commence (marie delna)

4. the rake's progress - no word from tom ... i go to him (diana damrau)

5. carmen - c'est toi c'est moi (agnes baltsa/jose carreras)

6. il barbiere di siviglia - a un dottor della mia sorte (fernando corena)

7. il campanello - la povera anastasia (sesto bruscantini/renato capecchi)

8. bedknobs and broomsticks - eglantine, eglantine ... don't let me down (angela lansbury/david tomlinson)

9. the wizard of oz - munchkinland musical sequence rehearsal demo

10. il trovatore [the whole thing]

[maryissinging]

Favorite Singers List

Soprano: Monsterrat Caballé Virginia Zeani Maria Callas Renata Tebaldi Rosa Ponselle Rosanna Carteri Ileana Cotrubaş Mezzo:

Agnes Baltsa Tenor: Jerry Hadley Lauritz Melchior Mario Del Monaco Giuseppe di Stefano Jon Vickers

Baritone: Robert Merrill

Bass:

Mykola Kondratyuk

[widevibratobitch]

what/who is your fav don giovanni. mine is muti with shimell. but no one beats siepi in acting. kwicien maybe

ohhhhhhh bless you for asking me this <3333 under the cut so as not to spam

i gotta say, I have a soft spot for Mariusz Kwiecień (he was my very first Don Giovanni, actually - that Met 2011 production was the very thing that got me into opera in the first place!), he's definitely THE best 21st century Don Giovanni to me. Acting-wise he's absolutely breathtaking and even if he cannot compare vocally with the old giants like Siepi I'd say he was pretty decent (i'm so weak for him singing that one ✨andiam✨ in La ci darem la mano in falsetto - he always does it and my legs always turn to jelly in that moment). Saw him perform it live only once and that was the moment i truly understood what the word katharsis meant. fucking CHILLS.

I really, really love Samuel Ramey (especially when paired up with young Furlanetto!). That hair, the little earring, that insane stage presence and energy. Also I don't think I've ever heard another rendition of Fin ch'han dal vino that would be as precise as his. It's a devilishly difficult aria, especially when done in the proper tempo, there is quite literally no space to breathe, it's insane - god knows I'm not an easy listener and bitching about opera singers is my personal hobby; but in the case of this one aria I am very forgiving and I usually just expect the singer to fuck it up with no hard feelings from me - but Ramey doesn't miss a single note!

And of course, of course - Cesare Siepi. I think he's the most legendary Don Giovanni and no wonder really. He's amazing, simple as that.

There are many good Giovannis out there, but those free are my personal favourites - though bonus points for... Bryn Terfel. I'm not a huge fan of his singing but that dude can act. Not to be a mean bitch lol but he obviously wouldn't be anyone's first choice (definitely not mine) for a character like Don Giovanni appearance-wise. AND YET - he somehow makes it work... chapeau bas (talking about that Met DG under Levine - say what you want about Levine, I hate that bitch as much as the next person, but he's one of my favourite conductors for both Mozart and Verdi... yikes).

if we're talking specific recordings... I don't have a perfect one, I'll always find something that I'd change, whether it be tempo or a singer. But yeah, I'm also really fond of that Muti recording! The tempi are insane sometimes, some are even faster than what I'd set myself and that's honestly impressive, brave and so so sexy of Muti fr. I think if I had to choose just one recording, that would be it. The cast is also good, especially the ladies. Vaness as Elvira (she's absolutely stunning, also as Anna with the amazing Jerry Hadley in that one Met Recording - also with Ramey and Furlanetto - she's THE soprano for all Mozart roles for me, her Fiordiligi and Vitellia are also legendary), Studer as Anna and I really like the Zerlina, I'm so tired of squeaky meowing Zerlinas like Battle and the whole gang...

Another two I like, though perhaps more for the singers than the conducting itself, are the one with Ramey as Giovanni, Furlanetto as Leporello, Agnes Baltsa as Elvira and Gösta Winbergh as Ottavio under Karajan and one with Sherrill Milnes as Giovanni, Walter Berry as Leporello and Żylis-Gara as Elvira under Böhm. I generally tend to concentrate on the singers more and only really notice the conducting when it's so awful that I just can't look past it lol

wow, that was long, weird, who would have thought that you'd get a long answer from me to a Don Giovanni related question huh

[hadescavedish]

I was tagged by @basil-touche to list the 5 songs I listened to recently. Thank you for the tagging!

Rossini, La donna del lago (The Lady of the Lake), Act II: Tanti affetti in un momento - Agnes Baltsa

Gluck, Che farò senza Euridice: Orfeo ed Euridice - Agnes Baltsa

Bellini, Ah ! Non credea mirarti: La Sonnambula - Maria Callas

Donizetti, Linda di Chamounix: Act 1 - Ah! tardai troppo - Joan Sutherland

Bizet, Carmen: Près des remparts de Séville - Agnes Baltsa

[mrbacf]

AGNES BALTSA live ROSSINI concert, Ghent 1989

[thesarahfiles]

On August 18, 1985, Sarah performed at the "Opera for Africa" charity gala at the Arena of Verona, Italy. She sang "Pie Jesu" with Paul Miles-Kingston while Andrew Lloyd Webber conducted the orchestra. At the end of the show, the three of them joined the stellar ensemble to sing Verdi's "Va, pensiero" from "Nabucco". José Carreras, Montserrat Caballé, Plácido Domingo, Gwyneth Jones, Agnes Baltsa, Simon Estes, and Rosalind Plowright were some of the gala's most notable performers, accompanied by the Polish Katowice State Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Carlo Franci. "Opera for Africa" was a José Carreras initiative, a charity LP was released as well, all supporting the UN Emergency Trust Fund for Africa. 

[smallpoxlarry]

the idea was to redraw different carmens with artstyles that corresponded to their relevant decades but i got lazy lel (in order: grace bumbry 1969, agnes baltsa 1983, and belen amparan w/ franco corelli 1956)