in memoriam

nizza & armiliato's 'mia gelosa'

act-4 duet from trovatore: fleming & hvorostovsky

the met's doing trovatore, tomorrow afternoon -- can be heard, live, on radio stations

old blue eyes singing mozart, w/grayson -- domingo, freni & graham

i just learned, in opera news magazine's new backgrounder feature (operapedia -- this month, on 'don giovanni'), that frank sinatra sang that lovely love duet (?) -- seduction scene -- that the don sings with zerlina (right after she got married) -- old blue eyes sang it with kathryn grayson, in the 1947 movie 'it happened in brooklyn' -- i had to see it

i wonder who that masetto is -- i just looked on imdb, to find out -- what a cast -- durante, gloria grahame, peter lawford -- maybe it's bobby long

i then went on, as one is wont to do on youtube -- a couple of charming ones -- magnificent -- placido with mirella freni, then with susan graham -- look at her -- she's barely out of her teens

behind the scenes of baden-baden concert

great documentary, behind the scenes of the spectacular concert in baden-baden, in 2007

there's a part seven, which doesn't have a number...after the title

can't include it here -- here's a link to the video

turns out, the director of this documentary, robert dornhelm, is the person who directed the boheme movie starring netrebko and villazon

what i didn't understand, was what they were reviewing, in the studio -- was it, a post-mortem