Music recommended and/or mentioned by AURORA!
ABBA - Thank You For The Music
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Agnes Obel - Falling, Catching / Riverside / Dorian / The Curse (Robert Hampson Remix)
Air - Sexy Boy
Alice Phoebe Lou and Olmo - Devil's Sweetheart
Alt J - Fitzpleasure / Hunger of The Pine / Pulsher
Amanda Delara (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)
Amanda Tenfjord (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)
And Still I Rise - Wrecking Ball
Ane Brun - A Temporary Dive / All We Want is Love / Do You Remember
Anna of the North - Lovers
Annie Lennox - No More "I Love You's"
Antônio Carlos Jobim - Samba De Uma Nota Só
A Perfect Circle - The Outsiders / Weak And Powerless / Passive / Thirteen Steps (album)
Asbjørn - The Love You Have in You / Asbjørn
Askjell - The First Goodbye / L O S T M Y C O O L / Sofia
The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows / Revolver (album)
Beck - Blue Moon
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (Glenn Morrison’s version)
Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love
Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Sunset Village
Bjork - Army of Me / Homogenic (album) / Human Behaviour / Hyperballad / Joga / Unravel / Violently Happy / All Is Full Of Love (Howie's Version)
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
Blondie - Heart Of Glass
Bob Dylan - Emotionally Yours / Political World / Mr. Tambourine Man (live version) (mentioned as the first song she dug)
Cameron James Laing - The Way
Cats of Transistria - Good Night
Céline Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Titanic)
The Chemical Brothers - Another World / Galvanize / Escape 700 / Hanna's Theme
Cher - Believe
Childish Gambino - This Is America
Claude Debussy, Alexis Weissenberg - Claire de Lune (mentioned as a song that impacted her as a child)
Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
Coldplay - Fix You
College/Electric Youth - A Real Hero (mentioned as the song that got her through her teen angst)
The Cranberries - Dreams
Crystal Castles - Air War / Celestica / Sad Eyes / Untrust Us
Daft Punk - Digital Love
Damien Rice - Cannonball / Delicate / Volcano
Daughter - Youth
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust / Blackstar (album) / Life On Mars? / Let’s Dance
dePresno - Forever
Dido - Here with Me
Dina Ögon - Tombola 94
DNKL - Hunt
Dolores O'Riordan - When We Were Young
Ed Sheeran- No Diggity vs. Thrift Shop (& Passenger, Kygo Remix) / I See Fire (Kygo Remix)
Edith Piaf - La Vie en Rose (mentioned as a song which makes her cry)
Edvard Grieg - Morning Mood (Morgenstemning) / Solveig’s Song
Enya - Amarantine / May It Be / Storms In Africa / Ebudae / Boadicea / Watermark / The Memory of Trees (album)
Eric Whitacre - Lux Aurumque
EvighetenYoung (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)
Fever Ray - When I Grow Up
Fka Twigs - Water Me
Fleetwood Mac - Big Love / Landslide
Florence + The Machine - No Light, No Light / Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up)
Frankie Valli - Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
Gabrielle - 5 fine frøkner
Gaahls WYRD (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)
Gojira - Explosia / Mouth of Kala (mentioned as a song she loves that might surprise people)
Goldmund - Image-Autumn-Womb
Great News - Now And Them (album)
Grimes - Flesh Without Blood
HALIE (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)
Hans Zimmer - Cornfield Chase
Henry Mancini & His Orchestra And Chorus - Moon River
Howard Shore - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Main Theme (mentioned as a song that she wishes she had written)
Imogen Heap - Headlock / Hide And Seek
Iris - Romance is Dead / lavender and heaven (mentioned as the song she wants played at her wedding)
Japanese Breakfast - Paprika
Jenny Hval - Golden Locks / Mephisto in the Water
John Williams - Hedwig's Theme (mentioned as a song she wishes that she had made)
John Wizards - Tet Lek Schrempf
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Arrival (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) / Kangaru
Johnny Cash (mentioned as the artist she likes)
Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting / Babooshka
Khold - Myr
Kimbra - Top of the World
Kishi Bashi - I Am the Antichrist to You
Kvelertak (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)
Lana Del Rey - Young and Beautiful
Leif Vollebekk - Elegy
Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat (Live) / Suzanne (Live) / The Partisan (mentioned as an important song which her parents listened to) / You Want It Darker (album) / It Seemed the Better Way / Greatest Hits (album) / Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye
Lorde (mentioned as the artist she would like to collaborate with)
Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)
Madonna - Frozen / Drowned world/Substitute for Love
Madrugada - Majesty
Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love
Massive Attack - Daydreaming / Teardrop
Mastodon - The Hunter / High Road
Masterdon (mentioned as the artist she likes)
Matt Maltese - As the World Caves In
Max Richter - On the Nature of Daylight
Metteson - Under Your Shirt
Miki Matsubara - 真夜中のドア/ Stay With Me
Moby - Porcelain / A Seated Night
Moyka - Colder
Naaz (mentioned as the artist she likes)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ft. Kylie Minogue - Where The Wild Roses Grow
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Nicholas Hooper - When Ginny Kissed Harry
O. Martin - Nowhere Is Home
Paolo Nutini - Everywhere
Phoebe Bridgers - Smoke Signals
Poliça - Happy Be Fine
Prince - Sexuality
Put Your Hands Up for Neo-Tokyo - Get By
Queen - Under Pressure
Radiohead - No Surprises
RED MOON (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)
RHODES - Turning Back Around
Rockettothesky - Grizzly Man (mentioned as the first song discovered on her own)
Röyksopp & Robyn - Monument
Robot Koch - Nitesky (feat John LaMonica)
Rudimental - Waiting All Night ft. Ella Eyre
Rusted Root - Send Me on My Way
RY X - Berlin
Sarah Brightman - Eden
SEA CHANGE - Above
Secret Garden - Windancer / Windancer
Seigmen - Monument
Sei Selina - Only When You’re Asleep
Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-englar
Silja Dyngeland / Silja Sol - Stemning (DC#27) / Løgneren / Skrubbsår
Silvana Estrada - Lo Sagrado (album)
Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2U
Slayer (mentioned as an artist she likes)
Solå (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)Sondre Lerche - Why Would I Let You Go / Wrecking Ball (cover) / Palindromes / Sentimentalist / Lucifer / Bad Law / Patience/ I Love You Because It's True
Strange Hellos (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)
Stromae - L’enfer
Sufjan Stevens (mentioned as an artist she was excited to see at Panorama NYC festival 2016)
Susanne Sundf��r - Silencer / White Foxes
Sushi x Kobe (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)
System of a Down - Violent Pornography
Tame Impala - Let It Happen
The Prodigy - Voodoo People / Smack My Bitch Up
The Secret Sisters - Tomorrow Will Be Kinder
Thomas Newman - American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score
Tigran Hamasyan + Arve Henriksen + Eivind Aarset + Jan Bang - Hoy, Nazan / Holy
Tool - Aenema
Underworld (mentioned as an artist she’d collaborate with) - Born Slippy / Rez / To Heal / 1992-2012 (album she would put it at a rave party as a DJ) / Born Slippy (mentioned as the song that she listened to the most when she first started driving)
Vilde Tuv - Cellevevet / Det blåser ingen vinder inni huset
Wardruna - Yggdrasil (album) / Runaljod - Ragnarok (album) / Fehu / Algir-Tognatale
WDSTCK - Flowers
Wim Mertens - Iris
Wintergatan - Sommarfågel
Woodkid - Iron
Wolf Alice - How Can I Make It Ok?
The XX - Intro
Young Dreams (suggested as an artist she recommends listening)
And overall music without words like soundtracks, movie pieces or classical music
Sources (in no particular order and some might be missing as I’ve been working on that since February 2021):
“Aurora feirer Grieg” on NRK 2018, i-D interview “city guide: bergen with aurora”, INDIE mag interview “BLESSING OUR EARS WITH AURORA’S DEBUT ALBUM” 2016, Records In My Life (interview 2016), 2014 interview for GAFFA, Auto-Tune Interview for DIFFUS 2019, Aurora guest programs Rage 2019, NRK radio show “AURORA Up Close” 2017, “Like A Bird In The Night: Clash Meets Aurora” 2019 interview, Spotify Greenroom Wrapped 2021 With AURORA and Sub Urban, Mixtape with the songs for Kzradio, #TBT Mixtape for Billboard, 2016 Artist Survey: AURORA for Under the Radar, Records In My Life (2019 Interview), Nordic Playlist #83, Nine Songs: AURORA for The Line of Best Fit 2019, NPR’s Guest DJ: AURORA On Her Love Of Heavy Metal And Leonard Cohen 2016, IG story from March 2020, IG story from September 2021, Interview - Panorama NYC 2016, Tweet from 2016, Spotify's music & talk show 10 Songs That Made Me 2021, Playlist for Weibo 2022, Interview for NRK 2014, Interview with Jamie Taylor 2016, Playful Playlist for i-D 2022, Midnight Mixtape for Deezer 2021, Daydreaming playlist for HIGHJINKX 2021, ChillDaBeats #038 2021, AURORA’s official SoundCloud channel, NRK P3 - Plateprat (record talk) 2017
Special thanks to Amroth for the support and additional resources provided! 🖤
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The Top 40 Most Popular Operas, Part 4 (#31 through #40)
A quick guide for newcomers to the genre, with links to online video recordings of complete performances, with English subtitles whenever possible.
Donizetti's Don Pasquale
Another comedy of manners with a melodic bel canto score.
Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, 2003 (Alessandro Corbelli, Eva Mei, Antonino Siragusa, Roberto de Candia; conducted by Gérard Korsrten)
Verdi's Macbeth
The first of Verdi's great Shakespearean operas.
Zürich Opera, 2001 (Thomas Hampson, Paoletta Marrocu, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Luis Lima; conducted by Franz Welser-Möst)
Beethoven's Fidelio
Beethoven's only opera, a drama of love, courage, and idealism in the face of political corruption.
Vienna State Opera, 1979 (Gundula Janowitz, René Kollo, Hans Sotin, Manfred Jungwirth, Lucia Popp; conducted by Leonard Bernstein)
Gounod's Faust
One of the most wildly popular operas in the 19th and early 20th centuries: a melodic French interpretation of the Faust legend.
Vienna State Opera, 1985 (Francisco Araiza, Gabriela Benacková, Ruggero Raimondi; conducted by Erich Binder)
Richard Strauss's Salome
Strauss's one-act operatic translation Oscar Wilde's erotic and powerful Biblically-inspired play.
Teatro Comunale di Bologna, 2010 (Erika Sunnegårdh, Mark S. Doss, Robert Brubaker, Dalia Schaechter, Mark Milhofer; conducted by Nicola Luisotti)
Puccini's Gianni Schicchi
Puccini's only comic opera, a rollicking one-act farce inspired by a passage from Dante's Divine Comedy.
Teatro alla Scala, 2008 (Leo Nucci, Nino Machiadze, Vittorio Grigolo, Cinzia De Mola; conducted by Riccardo Chailly)
Verdi's Don Carlo
A grand, tragic historical drama of politics, love vs. duty, intergenerational conflict, friendship (of the vaguely homoerotic variety), and abuse of power.
Metropolitan Opera, 1983 (Plácido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Louis Quilico, Grace Bumbry, Ferruccio Furlanetto; conducted by James Levine)
Bellini's Norma
A great bel canto soprano vehicle, depicting a tragic love triangle amid the Roman conquest of Gaul.
Sydney Opera House, 1978 (Joan Sutherland, Margareta Elkins, Ron Stevens, Clifford Grant; conducted by Richard Bonynge)
Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos
A unique "opera within an opera" that explores the themes of comedy vs. drama and "low art" vs. "high art."
Salzburg Festival, 1965 (Hildegard Hillebrecht, Sena Jurinac, Reri Grist, Jess Thomas; conducted by Karl Böhm)
Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice)
A groundbreaking early Classical interpretation of the Orpheus myth, replacing the pageantry of Baroque opera with "noble simplicity."
Feature film, 2014 (Bejun Mehta, Eva Liebau, Regula Mühlemann; conducted by Vaclav Luks) (no subtitles; read the libretto in English translation here)
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Birthdays 4.29
Beer Birthdays
Matthew Vassar (1792)
Robert Cain (1826)
Phillip Jacob Ebling Jr. (1861)
Tim Hampson (1953)
Pat McIllhenney (1954)
Tom Riley (1963)
Five Favorite Birthdays
Duke Ellington; jazz composer (1899)
Tommy James; pop singer (1947)
Rafael Sabatini; writer (1875)
Jerry Seinfeld; comedian (1955)
John Waters; film director (1946)
Famous Birthdays
Andre Agassi; tennis player (1970)
Luis Aparicio; Chicago White Sox SS (1934)
John Arbuthnot; Scottish scientist, mathematician (1667)
Thomas Beechum; orchestra conductor (1897)
Philippe Brun; jazz trumpeter (1908)
Daniel Day-Lewis; actor (1958)
Lonnie Donegan; folk singer (1931)
Nora Dunn; actor, comedian (1952)
Dale Earnhardt; automobile racer (1951)
Oliver Ellsworth; Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1745)
Daisy Fellowes; socialite (1890)
William Randolph Hearst; newspaper magnate (1951)
Celeste Holm; actor (1917)
David Icke; writer, conspiracy theorist (1952)
Irvin Kershner; film director (1923)
Rod McKuen; folk singer (1933)
Zubin Mehta; orchestra conductor (1936)
Donald Mills; singer, "Mills Brothers" (1915)
Kate Mulgrew; actor (1955)
Tommy Noonan; actor (1922)
Michelle Pfeiffer; actor (1958)
Eve Plumb; actor (1958)
Henri Poincare; French mathematician (1854)
Malcolm Sargent; orchestra conductor (1879)
Toots Thielmans; jazz musician (1922)
Uma Thurman; actor (1970)
Klaus Voorman; rock bassist (1942)
Rachel Williams; model (1967)
Carnie Wilson; pop singer (1968)
Fred Zinnemann; film director (1907)
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