Toscanini conducts Meyerbeer "Dinorah" Overture (1/2)

[SleepyTheAbbedd]

The chorus is that of the Metropolitan Opera

[meyerbeer13]

You know Kent Nagano said he'd consent to be a conductor of the Lyon Opera if he didn't have to conduct Meyerbeer. Maybe Toscanini knew something Kent didn't? The late comic operas of Meyerbeer (Dinorah and Etoile du Nord) are usually disregarded but they are certainly very rewarding and in some ways his most mature works. Meyerbeer never wrote overtures after 1831 but this is unique also in the use of the chorus -- the opera came out the same year as Faust and Tristan.

[meyerbeer13]

You know Kent Nagano said he'd consent to be a conductor of the Lyon Opera if he didn't have to conduct Meyerbeer. Maybe Toscanini knew something Kent didn't? The late comic operas of Meyerbeer (Dinorah and Etoile du Nord) are usually disregarded but they are certainly very rewarding and in some ways his most mature works.

[NnFfBb]

Every time I listen to an Opera by Meyerbeer, whether it Grande or etc., I can not help but pity him. The nerve of the Nazis and Wagner... He deserves just as much, and if not, even more recognition and fame than that of Richard Wagner. Thank you greatly for the Overture.

[7845lptape]

Thank you.

[marcussalieri]

tres joli d habitude cest fade vive tiscanini et meyerbeer

[ApsisApocynthion]

Thank you, this is very nice and I never listen to Meyerbeer.

[Sinfoniette]

Trivia:Since you like Wagner, I think you already know, but Wagner despised Meyerbeer because of Meyerbeer's great success (and also because he was a Jewish person.) I think you'll like his operas! Why not listen to one of them?

P.S. Is your name Gabriel?

[ApsisApocynthion]

I know, the war of the romantics right? Mostly thought of as Brahms V. Wagner, but really just a clash of ideologies between the many composers of the time.

Uh, yeah I'm curious.

Yes, my name is Gabriel.