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2023-09-18 11:45:35
Diapason reports the death of Suzanne Sarroca, a... The post France mourns dramatic soprano, 96 first appeared on Slippedisc. The post France mourns dramatic soprano, 96 appeared first on Slippedisc.
2017-04-21 15:52:05
Just a little touch of war quality
Happy 68th birthday Broadway diva Patti LuPone. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mQZhWZbNTQ Born on this day in 1899 composer Randall Thompson. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAhPD9zAImI Born on this day in 1911 baritone Leonard Warren. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WM8A87dHlY Born on this day in 1920 conductor and composer Bruno Maderna. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=orS1pzhoAwk Happy 90th birthday soprano Suzanne Sarroca. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6mBtcwjyMY Born on this day in 1931 bass-baritone Bengt Rundgren. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXJRbZi-IVs Happy 65th birthday soprano Jill Feldman. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgOS2wNY6E0
2016-04-21 14:00:36
Only a day away
On this day in 1977 the Strouse and Charnin musical Annie opened at the Alvin Theater, to run for 2,377 performances. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdpbUX0CTkQ Born on this day in 1899 composer Randall Thompson. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAhPD9zAImI Born on this day in 1911 baritone Leonard Warren. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WM8A87dHlY Born on this day in 1920 conductor and composer Bruno Maderna. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=orS1pzhoAwk Happy 89th birthday soprano Suzanne Sarroca. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYsV07mMPTs Born on this day in 1931 bass-baritone Bengt Rundgren. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXJRbZi-IVs Happy 64th birthday soprano Jill Feldman. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgOS2wNY6E0 Happy 37th birthday to parterre critic Alex Baker. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWRWI4zDmnc
2015-10-01 16:00:21
Beauty in its highest lustre
Just sixteen years after Joseph Fielding’s riotous novel The history of Tom Jones, a foundling was published in England, François-André Danican Philidor’s musical setting premiered in Paris at the Comédie-Italienne. Although it falls into the 18th century opera-comique tradition, Tom Jones is actually a comédie mêlée d’ariettes, a comedy mixed with brief arias. This 1979 live performance from Paris’s Salle Favart features an all-French cast, the best known names being Jean-Philippe Lafont and Suzanne Sarroca as Squire Western and his sister, characters memorably portrayed in Tony Richardson’s delicious 1963 film by Hugh Griffiths and Dame Edith Evans. Lafont’s hunting scene in the first act is a particular highlight of this recording. Christiane Eda-Pierre’s delicious LP of opera-comique arias first introduced me to the music of Philidor and the Belgian André Grétry. It’s been recently reissued on an import double-CD set dedicated to Eda-Pierre and well worth hunting down, as […]
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