#rossini semiramide

[tuttocenere]

Gaslighting myself into enjoying Semiramide

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Today a 140 years old original castlist from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Season 1884.

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THEY WERE FUCKING📢

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Gioacchino Rossini, Semiramide: Bel raggio lusinghier

Marcella Sembrich, Soprano Walter B. Rogers, Conductor 1908

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This is a recit-aria-aria singing scene of the breeches role Arsace (aka the role is a dude but it normally would be sung by a woman) in Rossini's opera Semiramide. This is just so hard to do. The damn piece is just so complicated. And she did it in a very... technically androgynous touch (which is rare to come by and also you should account the fact the breeches role may or may not have been a substitute for castrato role history wise)

I really enjoy Rossini's repertoire, they're very difficult to perform but they're generally enjoyable to listen when you feel down... Even in his tragedy (which is this show!)

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Joan Sutherland - Semiramide

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Remembering one of the creators of the Bel Canto school singing, the Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini (29 Feb 1792 - 13 Nov 1868).

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Here Joan gives life to the Queen of Babylonia - Semiramide.

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back on my Rossini kick

this is what happens when you let me sing coloratura again

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Tagged by @catilinas and @soldatrose to put my "on repeat" playlist on shuffle and post the first 10 songs that show up. Thank you for the tag.

I am not a spotify user, so I shuffled my main playlist. Feel free to do the same, or really anything that works for your situation (such as putting a portable music player on shuffle).

1. Che m'ami ti prega from Orlandini's Nerone, sung by Jakub Jósef Orlinski.

2. Risveglia lo sdegno from Vinci's Alessandro nell'Indie, sung by David Hansen.

3. De' folgori di Giove from Hasse's Il trionfo di Clelia, sung by Max Emanuel Cenčić.

4. In braccio a mille furie from Porpora's Semiramide, sung by Cecilia Bartoli.

5. Posso morir, ma vivere from Handel's Arminio, sung by Sophie Junker.

6. All'idea di quel metallo from Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, sung by Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres.

7. Ah che son fuor di me from Gassmann's L'amore artigiano, sung by Ania Vegry.

8. Se in campo armato from Vivaldi's Catone in Utica, sung by Simone Kermes.

9. Invan minacci e credi vincer from Jommelli's Vologeso, sung by Jörg Waschinski.

10. Coperta la frode from Handel's Ariodante, sung by Ewa Podleś.

Tagging @elden-opera, @orchatab, @lives-in-a-harpsichord, @tuttocenere, @baliisarda,

@girlruggiero , @dellevigne, @per4mancecheck - if you want to. And anyone who wants to do it.

[tuttocenere]

Rossini kisses

Corinna/Belfiore (Viaggio a Reims), Malcolm/Elena (la donna del lago), Dandini/Don Magnifico and Ramiro/Angelina (Cenerentola), Lindoro/Isabella (Italiana in Algeri), Almaviva/Rosina (Barbiere di Siviglia)

I went outside a lot this weekend but I also spent well over an hour making Rossini kisses with picrew.

Bonus: Le Comte Ory

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Augusto Valli (1867-1945), Semiramide morente sulla tomba di Nino (Semiramis dying on Nino's tomb), 1893

(based on the opera 'Semiramide' by Gioachino Rossini, libretto by Gaetano Rossi, first performed 1823)

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February 3. 1823 the Opera „Semiramide“ from Gioachino Rossini premiered in Teatro La Fenice with Isabella Colbran (1784-1845). Rossini write this Opera for her. She was the first wife from him. Take a closer look on the biography of this great spanish Soprano.

On this postcard we see her on a great painting.

[denispatritti]

Rossini: Semiramide - Bel raggio Lusinghier - June Anderson

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@gaytobymeres tagged me in a music ask listing 10 songs I've been enjoying recently. I've been delaying several music asks. Here we go:

1. Barcarolle No. 1 In A Minor, Op. 26 (1880) - Gabriel Faure

2. Il pirata: Act I Scene 9: Ah! partiamo, i miei tormenti (Imogene, Adele, Gualtiero, Ernesto, Itulbo, Solitario, Chorus) - Bellini

3. 3 Pieces, Op. 11: I. Prelude in B Minor - Anatoly Lyadov

4. Jig Of Life - Kate Bush

5. The Walk - Eurythmics

6. Who Is He and What Is He to You - Meshell Ndegeocello

7. Marigolds - Emily King

8. Dame Beso // Muévete - Kali Urchis

9. Symphony No. 5, Op. 50:Ia. Tempo giusto - Carl Nielsen

10. Semiramide / Act 2:Su ti scuoti - Rossini