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Horne aplenty
Recent discussion about the merits of Le Prophète has prompted Chris’s Cache to unearth a pirate recording of Meyerbeer’s opera with Marilyn Horne, Rita Shane and Guy Chauvet led by Charles Mackerras, along with an earlier collaboration of the mezzo and conductor: Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice in which Horne goes to hell to get back Adriana Maliponte with the help of Judith Blegen.
2020-09-16 17:07:16
Gemma di Vergy
With the lovely, largely now forgotten Adriana Maliponte in the title role.
2017-07-27 19:11:06
Woman on the Vergy
To correct the relative dearth of serious bel canto here “Trove Thursday” offers the 92nd of Donizetti’s 137* operas, Gemma di Vergy, from Bergamo the composer’s birthplace with the lovely, largely now forgotten Adriana Maliponte in the title role. Gae and I go way back: when I was Opera Pre-Teen one of my favorite tv shows was The Wild Wild West (gee, I wonder why?). I was intrigued by the episode where Patrice Munsel guest starred as a temperamental (of course!) Italian diva who sang about a minute of the Lucia di Lammermoor Mad Scene. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO_kQxUJoMI Maybe that’s why the next year Lucia became the first opera I attended—I was 12 and went by myself clad in my sports jacket and clip-on tie on a $2 student ticket. Apparently I was not impressed as neither the opera nor its prima donna (Roberta Peters) became favorites. More recently I’ve OD’d […]
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