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The right kind of voice! We're lucky to have a record of Puccini's own Mimi, C. Ferrani, a pure lyric, and Sayao's just the same. Also, this "live" track shows Sayao's imaginative way with the music, both in her musicianship and in a strikingly subtle control of theatrical tension. With such m...

@recorderson Indeed, a perfect voice for this, as is confirmed when we hear a record of Puccini's own choice for the world premiere, C. Ferrani, a pure lyric, as is Sayao. Lovely as heavier Mimis like Tebaldi are, Sayao seems a veritable ideal, both in her lyric vocal weight and in her lovely an...

@kraftwerkian Amazingly, when she sang this at the Met on the 3rd of February only a week or so back, the whole instrument was even more luscious and at the same time clearer & untiring at the top. She even lingered up there! In this video, for instance, she (and/or the conductor) tightens the ...

That said, I do think that Gheorghiu may be finer in this role than Tebaldi, even though Tebaldi's was arguably the more striking talent in general. Georghiu helps remind us that Mimi is a really lyrical role, and when we hear records of its creator Cesira Ferrani, we are reminded of that all ov...

@musoph21 & dermotafan, I well understand anyone who admires Caballe's or Scotto's or Cotrubas's "D'onde lieta usci". Each one has certain amazing qualities special to them. Once one is talking about "best", though, that changes things. One is then talking about something half objective and ha...

@iamnotavailableduh Waiting for someone to say this. Thanks! I'd guess the general conditions there are grim. So, many "mourners" there pretend to lament KJI but really take full advantage of the moment to cry out their sense of violation at what they endure every day. It's a lament and also ...

The governor's apology is not a real apology. He has the gall to say his staff over-reacted, and that's why he's "apologizing"......

W H A T ??????

Either announce that you're firing the staff member WHO BROKE THE LAW in bullying that principal, or man up and apologize for what YOU did yoursel...

@Corvastus He occasionally uses his wide dynamic range a bit like Corelli -- and I saw Corelli regularly from 1965 to '74. Others he sometimes reminds me of are John Alexander (check out "sogno" here on "sogno mio"), whom I also saw, and Ramon Vinay, who had already retired by the time I started...

@OJB42 For sheer appearance frequency in the originals, "There are last which shall be first" & "Lose your life to others to save it" are the most cited. So maybe Jesus stressed those most. Clearly, the golden rule became the most important in later generations. The research I've done definitely ...

@TurandotFanatic Wrong, this one is not 1961. It's the Opening Night Turandot at La Scala, from December 7, 1964, under Gianandrea Gavazzeni. I found another upload of it at /watch?v=MQUrH9QL7Ro , where the clip is given full identification, and when I listened to it, it was absolutely identical...

@Iisdabest889 One of the few really pertinent quotes from either of you is this one from an extant diary of an intimate Hitler associate --

In the 1941 diary of Nazi General Gerhart Engel, Hitler says "I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so."

This is a remark where we have the...

Delightful. Please, I'd love to have a translation of these lyrics, if it's out there! Many thanks.

Well! I've heard many a so-so transfer of this unsurpassed Gencer reading of this supremely difficult Verdi scena. But this one is a handsome dubbing job. Whatever the source, it's finer than any other I've yet heard.

Please, is the whole Palermo performance with her and Taddei and Gui at the...

@changingmyself "They also talk about Buddha's uncles and the rest of his family" -- showing that both Siddhartha and Jesus are both quite real and equally human.

@grig035 Thanks to "Saltburner", I've now heard a new discovery: an unpublished "tesoro" of Tauber's, over a decade earlier than the generally available 39 one, a reading with just as precise agility as McCormack's (/watch?v=iNvs-dm5A28)! No, the breath span is still not as broad as McC, but the...

@saltburner2 I recall some while back when our own TauberFanLehar2 indicated in an e-mail that that Don G. was a "possible", but his online Tauber discography later listed only the Covent Garden Zauberfloete of '38 as a "possible" with no mention of the '39 Don G. From this, I've reluctantly con...

@tomfroekjaer And maybe now others can follow in my footsteps and hear it there too! :-) As with Caruso's '04 "lucevan", I view Caruso's '05 "Cielo" as being in a select group of supreme readings of that aria ......... I'd probably nominate Bjoerling's early "Cielo", Corelli's in-house "Cielo" f...

@tomfroekjaer You're right. That may be the most "present" transfer of all -- /watch?v=oAkGtoV5grM. Well done. As for younger versus later Caruso, I used to prefer later Caruso to a significant degree. I still feel the instrument's more golden and striking later on. But as I've explained on-...