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Hansel and Gretel-The Prayer; Opera Theater of Connecticut

An excerpt from Opera Theater of Connecticut's Silver Jubilee Season; 25 years of presenting affordable professional opera in an intimate setting. ...

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pagerbear said:

Does Hansel have a name?

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  Handel's Messiah "Comfort Ye" and "Every Valley Shall Be Exaulted"

  Live Performance with Ensemble Chouerisma 2010, Montreal

  Tenor Solo- Cody Growe

  8,379 views

  pagerbear said:

  I had no idea there were so many scholars of Baroque music and Handel on YouTube. I might not know any more than the most vocal of the lot, but I find this a charming performance, although a little slow. I myself would have added more ornamentation, which would have appalled the score literalis...

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  Ethel Merman Sings I Got Rhythm 1956

  I think this is my favorite tv version. Ethel looks so happy and relaxed and sounds fantastic. This is from a 1956 television show.

  I Got Rhythm

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  pagerbear said:

  The only thing I'm not digging is the bodice on that dress. Otherwise it's perfection!

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  Occupy Wall Street Sermon

  The Rev. Matthew Moretz preaches on the Gospel reading of Matthew 22:15-22, the "Render unto Caesar" passage. This sermon was preached at Christ's...

  1,987 views

  pagerbear said:

  Including Donizetti in this is really sexy, but that's just me.

  A general comment about how everyone--both sides of the aisle--thinks the OTHER is interpreting scripture to his/her own advantage, when EVERY age has interpreted scripture through its own cultural lens.

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  The Boofont Sisters Sing "Turkey Lurkey Time"

  The Boofont Sisters sing It's Turkey Lurkey Time from the musical Promises, Promises. Performed as part of their annual Holiday show "Jesus, Booze...

  4,247 views

  pagerbear said:

  This is absolutely the first time I understood all the words in the song!

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  Rolando Villazón singing "O Dieu! de quelle ivresse" from LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN

  Rolando Villazón singing "O Dieu! de quelle ivresse" from Jacques Offenbach's LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN, recorded live during the dress rehearsal at th...

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  He's back!

  Er ist zuruckgekommen!

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  Luciano Pavarotti, Idomeneo 1

  Luciano Pavarotti at the opera Idomeneo by Mozart, Frederica Stade as Idamante. A beautiful performance at the Metropolitan Opera, 1982

  8,219 views

  pagerbear said:

  Pavarotti almost always sounded glorious, but the role lies a little low for him. Pavarotti's real glory is his high voice. That's why you hear more dramatic tenors singing it (although John Mark Ainsley did an amazing job with the Munich production a few years ago).

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Netrebko and Meade sing "Coppia iniqua" Anna Bolena 2011

Angela Meade and Anna Netrebko sing "Coppia iniqua" from Donizetti's Anna Bolena. Metropolitan Opera. 2011.

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pagerbear said:

You really did record last night's performance with Angela Meade! I loved her performance. I was ready to kill the conductor for that final cadence!

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pagerbear commented 4 months ago

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Beverly Sills 3 years of Anna Bolena Coppia iniqua 1973,1974,1975

From Bubbles (1976), "Anna Bolena, my thrid and final Donizetti queen, went into the City Opera's repertoire in the fall of 1973. It almost did not...

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pagerbear said:

Thanks for this offering. I'm a big fan of yours and of Bubbles. And, in fact, of Anna Bolena. I hope you don't mind that I linked this video as my Golden Age Singer of the Week on my blog, Taminophile, giving you full credit.

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pagerbear commented 5 months ago

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Si Ritrovarla

Luciano Botelho singing Si ritrovarla io giuro form Rossini's La Cenerentola.

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Beautiful singing.

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  O Rest In The Lord

  Audrey Walstrom presents Mendelssohn's "O Rest InThe Lord" from Elijah at Hyde Park Community United Methodist Church in Cincinnati Ohio on 4-3-201...

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  pagerbear said:

  This is one of the better performances of this aria on YouTube. Very nice.

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pagerbear commented 6 months ago

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Roberto Devereux - 1990 Barcelona

Conductor Richard Bonynge - 1990

Orchestra - Gran Teatro del Liceo

Chorus - Gran Teatro del Liceo

Elisabetta - Edita Gruberova

Duca di Nottingham -...

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i can't get enough of this!

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pagerbear commented 8 months ago

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I Can Give You the Starlight

Song by Ivor Novello

March2006

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pagerbear said:

@geraldhaigh Thanks for your comment. This was a very informal shindig where I sang a few songs and some friends sang a few songs. I was actually singing to my partner, with whom I'd been together less than a year at the time. It still makes me misty to remember that.

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  The Disappointment of Growing Up

  Just a vent about the state of the world today.

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  pagerbear said:

  It breaks my heart to see someone as young and beautiful spiritually as you are go through this disillusionment, but it's totally normal. Some of these things will never make sense, but they're what's there. You are a very strong man and you can you can make a difference in our world. I really...

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