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How could I have forgotten Marian Anderson? The great African-American contralto from the thirties and forties of the twentieth century?

Check out the samples on this CD:

The Lady from Philadelphia

And this site has pictures and a biography:

afrovoices.com

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Have just got a wonderful CD that might appeal to the people here:

Vangelis: Mythodea

Not really opera, but some of the most beautiful and powerful choral/soprano music I've ever heard. I haven't even listened to all of it, but the 4th movement is worth the cost of a new CD by itself - just stunning.

And I got it for just $4, what a bargain. :D

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I love Verdi's operas best, but Puccini's no slouch. Most choral music makes me swoon.

When I was in high school (back in the stone age), I had the opportunity to sing with Robert Shaw since he directed the All-State Chorus that year. He was amazing, unlike any other conductor I've ever experienced. I can't remember everything we sang that year, but I'm pretty sure one was the Verdi "Stabat Mater."

When I was even younger (pre-stone age), my little brother declared that he wanted to be a counter-tenor after hearing a Deller recording. Changed his mind when he found out about castrati. He has a fine bass voice, though.

I used to put a Pavarotti recording in my car and play "Nessun Dorma" over and over and over. :D

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I just heard some Florence Foster Jenkins singing some Mozart on radio.
She was really cute, you should give her a try.
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Well I can't say that I'm a huge opera fan but I do enjoy it in small doses.

I've been to see Phantom here in TO a couple times and last fall I went to see Sarah Brightman. Her voice has improved and matured in recent years and she was quite a delight to listen to. :)


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Er, Phantom doesn't count as opera ;)

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I was looking up one of my favorite soprano's on amazon.com and came across this recording of "Don Giovanni".

It has higher reviews than the others I linked you to, and Joan Sutherland is one of my favorite soprano's. Anyway, don't know if you've already bought a copy, but if you haven't, you might want to consider this one.

There's also a recording with Renee Flemming and Bryn Terfel - Linky - but the reviews aren't as positive for it as they are for the Sutherland or the Te Kanawa recordings.


Otherwise I've heard that there is a supposedly brilliant recording of the opera coming out next year with Sumi Jo. I can't confirm it, however, and can't find mention of it on any official website, so I'm not sure. If it is true, however, that would be incredible, as she is an amazing singer.

Anyway - if you go to amazon.com and search by "album title", you'll get about 94 results. Most of the results, you can listen to 20 second samples of each song to see what you think of it.

Wampuscat wrote:
When I was in high school (back in the stone age), I had the opportunity to sing with Robert Shaw since he directed the All-State Chorus that year. He was amazing, unlike any other conductor I've ever experienced. I can't remember everything we sang that year, but I'm pretty sure one was the Verdi "Stabat Mater."
:Q :Q :Q :Q :Q :Q :Q You have no idea how jealous I am. I love Robert Shaw and would've done anything to be able to sing with him. Am sooooooooo jealous :help: :blackeye:




Iavas - I've been listening to the CD - thank you sooooooo much!!! I didn't even realize how much I missed it until I played it.



TWT - Phantom is, indeed, not an opera :P


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I've been listening to the CD - thank you sooooooo much!!! I didn't even realize how much I missed it until I played it.
Great! :D It's funny, I was just today thinking of asking you whether you'd been listening to it, then came here and saw your comment. :)

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Well, parts of it are undeniably operatic.

Any one here a fan of Cecilia Bartoly?


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Another one... ;)

She is definately the mezzo soprano of an age. I never cared much for the voice of Marelyn Horne (sp?), a strange quiver in her voice...


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Estel wrote:
:Q :Q :Q :Q :Q :Q :Q You have no idea how jealous I am. I love Robert Shaw and would've done anything to be able to sing with him. Am sooooooooo jealous :help: :blackeye:
I wish you could've been there, Estel!

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Another Cecilia Bartoli fan :love: :love::love:

A singer with great heart as well as a great voice. I thought she and Bryn Terfel made a glorious Figaro and Susanna, in a television production I saw of The Marriage of Figaro years ago. I think Renee Fleming played the Countess in this as well. (But I’m not sure, I know I’ve also seen Te Kanawa in the role.) I just wish they would come here and sing, so that I wouldn’t have to rely on CDs and DVDs!


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I haven't seen her live but I have some friends who have seen her multiple times.

Of all sopranos I've never seen anyone look so expressive while singing. She has a real talent.


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I'm not too certain where this observation belongs but perhaps it is appropriate here. Jon Snow is a well respected journalist, broadcaster and news presenter in the UK. He has a cultured, pleasant slightly clipped voice in the British upper class manner. He is on the radio at the moment discussing the music in his life. He was at Winchester school as a boy, one of the great and old public schools (which means private). For a perfectly good reason they are called Wykehamists but that is a digression. He described being a chorister in the college choir and said how the large spaces made the choristers ennunciate and articulate clearly. He believed that the care needed in singing carried over into his ordinary speech.
With such a long boy's choral tradition in England in cathedral and school and university choirs it made me wonder if that tradition had an influence on the clipped British upper class accent.

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Estel :love: :love:

I'm sorry if I never answered your post here...

Life is blowing me a storm lately, and music helps a lot.

Thank you, Stella (which means star.... what you are)

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Bump again.

Since I'm going to see Fleming in July...

I'm ashamed to say that I don't know La traviata that well, and I'd rather learn about it from a discussion with you guys than just looking it up on wikipedia or something ;)


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