Your personal RECOMMENDATION: best DVD of Richard Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"?
I have the 1966 Bohm/Nilsson/Windgassen Bayreuth CD; but would like to purchase a DVD of equal quality.
What's your personal recommendation...
Your personal RECOMMENDATION: best DVD of Richard Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"?
I have the 1966 Bohm/Nilsson/Windgassen Bayreuth CD; but would like to purchase a DVD of equal quality.
What's your personal recommendation...
Your personal RECOMMENDATION: best DVD of Richard Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"?
I have the 1966 Bohm/Nilsson/Windgassen Bayreuth CD; but would like to purchase a DVD of equal quality.
What's your personal recommendation...
Your personal RECOMMENDATION: best DVD of Richard Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"?
I have the 1966 Bohm/Nilsson/Windgassen Bayreuth CD; but would like to purchase a DVD of equal quality.
What's your personal recommendation...
I've thought this through very carefully I think; and I'm pretty sure about the circumstances involved regarding the scenario of the Ring; but will admit I could be wrong - so please feel free to correct me, if this proves to be the case.
QUESTION: what one and only one character, is on...
For those of you who are not familiar with the Met.'s Opera Quiz: http://www.operainfo.org/int_submit.htm
Would you if you were me, submit the following question?
"Which composer whose age when he died, when added to the century year of his birth, equals that of his death?
To...
"Ilya Muromets"/"Procession of the Sardar"/"Ruslan and Lyudmila": do these titles
ring a bell with you? Whenever Russian composers are referenced on this forum, the composers of the above are rarely if ever mentioned.
And I feel that it's about time they were; especially for the benefit...
...funeral music nominees? His passing was not unexpected to say the least: had had numerous by-pass surgeries, and developed dementia upon his retirement: his significant other - both having children from previous marriages - had assumed his duties upon his retirement about 6 mos. ago...
"Mario Lanza": this once famous hollywood singer, could he have had a career...
...in opera? BIG TIME? I'm watching a documentary about him on PBS right now(Nevada 11:00 a.m. PST):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Lanza#Operatic_career
A You Tube clip of his "Nessun Dorma"...
Fast-paced, "galloping, rides, races,etc." depicted in classical music: how...
...many can you think of? Some fellow music lovers and I, have been discussing Saint-Saens tone poem, "Phaeton": a not well-known composition.
Phaeton, for those who are not familiar with this Greek...
"Good Morning" from Reno/Sparks, NV-USA: how are things where you live - "yukky"
weather, like we have here? I got up way to early: 6:00 a.m.; feel like I need at least another 4 hrs. sleep.
God, does this first cup of coffee taste wonderful; worth its weight in Gold. I think what...
"Victory at Sea": great WW II TV epic, by Richard Rogers(& R.R. Bennett);...
...familiar with it? If you, as a "classical" music lover, are not familiar with, heard/seen nor even "heard of" it, I would highly recommend it.
Although some may consider the score hackneyed, I for one, feel...