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2022-01-13 15:00:57
Are you there, God? It’s me, Margared
Trove Thursday offers a nearly forgotten 19th century opera with a most marvelous name: Le Roi d’Ys by Éduoard Lalo featuring a superb French cast led by Alain Vanzo, Andrea Guiot, Jane Rhodes and Robert Massard.
2020-07-15 16:20:00
Secrets of the Sahara - Le Désert and L'Atlantide
[…] L'Atlantide employs cyclic narrative. A Frenchman (Lt Saint-Avit) is found wandering in the desert, maddened by thirst and bizarre visions. Only towards the end do we realise he's telling his tale back to front. Back to the beginning : he's invalided back to France under a cloud. suspected of being involved with the mystery disappearance of his friend and mentor, Captain Morhange. Two years previously, a French expedition had been massacred and the leader Lieutenant Massard had been captured. Morhange and Saint-Avit approached the desolate mountains of Tidefest, taking shelter in a cave at the approach of sandstorm. Inside, they found insciptions in early Greek with the name "Antinea". Danger lurks. Their faithful guide is poisoned and they turn to a Tarqui from Haggar, Cegheir ben Cheik who suddenly appears, to lead them deeper into the caves below the mountains. Cegheir ben Cheik intoxicates them with hashish. He's smoking Lt. […]
2019-12-10 22:00:00
GOUNOD: FAUST GEDDA - HARPER - GHIAUROV - GAVAZZENI - TEATRO COLON 1971
Charles Gounod (1818-1893) Faust Grand Opera in five acts Libretto: Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite Premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique, Boulevard du Temple in Paris,19 March 1859 Nicolai Gedda Heather Harper Nicolai Ghiaurov René Massard Africa de RetesJorge AlcortaLuisa Bartoletti Coro y Orquesta Estables del Teatro Colón,Buenos Aires Gianandrea Gavazzeni Recorded live, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 30, 1971 Memoria Sonora del Teatro Colón No. 13 CdsPublished 2007 (Out of print. This is not even in the freedb data base)Manually taggedflac, cue, logs & full scans Fifteen years had elapsed since the last Faust at the Teatro Colon. On that ocasion (1954) Gianni Poggi, Boris Christoff and Nilda Hoffmann (alternating with Irma Gónzalez) where in charge of the main roles. But the history of Faust at the Teatro Colon was a rich and […]
2017-08-15 19:46:49
Peace with your cries of useless lament!
Born on this day in 1933 soprano Rita Hunter. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lh_Y2rcsso Born on this day in 1771 novelist Walter Scott. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpMWJVPWOTQ Born on this day in 1872 composer Harold Fraser-Simson. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn5LGlXJEv4 Born on this day in 1875 composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkqaSqwHlsw Born on this day in 1890 composer Jacques Ibert. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCU9aSYAkjM Born on this day in 1895 tenor Ettore Parmeggiani. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=cslvGVpz8Ho Born on this day in 1922 composer Lukas Foss. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttLNvsN_BCg Born on this day in 1924 soprano Elsie Morison. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYb6P26edck Happy 92nd birthday baritone Robert Massard. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaEtyWjXyDg Born on this day in 1936 soprano Rita Shane. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzYqnQ7-J9Y Happy 74th birthday mezzo-soprano Hanna Schwarz. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WDbCTrnSM8 Happy 61st birthday tenor Bruce Ford. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx4HUnVW14E
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