'Il Trovatore' at Virginia Opera (2008)

[KingdomSlayer]

Please someone tell me name of the very first song on this video o_O

I've beein after it since I saw that singing frog from the Looney Toons's cartoons

pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease

[birgitnilsson]

@KingdomSlayer it is the anvil chorus,ac tII, il TRovatore, Verdi

[KingdomSlayer]

@birgitnilsson

Thanks you, alot.

My workmates are not so pleased, though. xD

[birgitnilsson]

@KingdomSlayer Why not? I don´t understand.

[egyboy67]

Virginia Opera is based in Norfolk, VA. They also tour in Richmond and Fairfax (which is practically DC).

[RockytheWolf]

where is the virginia opera? like where in virginia?

[crimdell]

@RockytheWolf Norfolk and Richmond.

[rachelhana1990]

Jeniece Golbourne was the AMAZING mezzo. I have never heard Azucena performed as well as she did.

[egyboy67]

Ditto..... I got to be next to her on stage every night in that production. She is a force of nature.... and one hell of a nice person.

[rachelhana1990]

I performed with her when she did it in Eugene.

[lucasbarraco1986]

Does somebody know the name of the Bass?

[egyboy67]

Ashraf Sewailam

[19Manya41]

@lucasbarraco1986 A bassbariton:Nmon Ford

[lisalto]

Wonderful voice! Power and expressiveness both. Voices this great are few and far between. Congratulations to Virginia Opera for recognizing this and bringing him back!

[belcantoday]

What an incredible tenor! He has EVERYTHING! Well, it's the only Italian speaker in the cast. Nevermind, all of them are great, but HE is superb. The kind of voice and singing you don't hear often.

[organdude44]

Why is a regional company like the Virginia Opera(which I've heard) doing this opera in Italian with singers who neither speak the language or have good Italian diction? Oh, I forgot, We now go to the opera to read "super titles" which is supposed to make opera more "accessible" to the masses. Anybody ever hear of the English National Opera?

[7up4me]

The idea, I believe, is not to hear perfect Italian (and no, I do not speak the language) but to hear the opera the way the composer intended it be heard in the language in which it was written. I have also found that most operas done in English require super-titles as the words are so distorted due to vocal requirements that most are not really easily discernable.

[lucasbarraco1986]

Nicely answered up4me!

I wellcome anything that makes opera accessible to the masses, and for the record it's been done in Argentina too, even though spanish and italian are quite similar, or at least share a common root.

[egyboy67]

Yes, I heard of the English National Opera, which exists alongside The Royal Opera House Covent Garden where all performances are in the original language. English is a much more difficult language to sing in than Italian. Not only that, its intelligibility would be obliterated by the brutal vocal writing of Verdi.

And what's wrong with subtitles?

[elotello]

don't virgina opera have a better and younger lead tenor? htis tenor looks older than Pavarotti when he was alive.

[Pavarotti4eva]

the mezzo has such a beautiful, verdian quality to her voice!

[guappaione]

I like the mezzo. I wish they posted more clips of Leonora's gorgeous music. She sounds wobbly in this clip.

[explodingplant]

i saw this last night. it was great