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Monday, January 15. 2018

Sublime

The Flower Duet is probably the only piece of the 1882 opera Lakme that any of us have ever heard. Netrebko and Garanca:



Posted by Bird Dog in Music at 16:49 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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The Hunger. You know what I'm talking about.......
#1 Eduardo on 2018-01-15 17:08 (Reply)
That's where I first heard this, too.
#1.1 Texan99 on 2018-01-16 15:05 (Reply)
Here is another version. The singer on the left a 13 year old Dutch girl. Beautiful voice. Amira Willighagen.
#2 Easy on 2018-01-15 18:13 (Reply)
Sorry did not manage the link. I'll try:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk1l84UW1pI
#3 Easy on 2018-01-15 18:26 (Reply)
Garanca's version of "Carmen" Is the best since Leotyne Price. Similar voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2snTkaD64U
#4 Mike K (Link) on 2018-01-16 08:10 (Reply)
I don't know, how about The Bell song. I first heard it in 1960. I always thought it was the opera's most famous aria.
#5 Capt. Craig (Link) on 2018-01-16 09:34 (Reply)
The opera is well-known to lovers of French opera, and contains not one, but several chestnuts that are regularly performed on the concert stage and well as the opera house. One of them being the treacherously difficult "Je crois entendre encore" for tenor.
#6 varados on 2018-01-16 16:24 (Reply)
"Je crois entendre encore" is both gorgeous and treacherous - but its from Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers" which of course also has that famous duet.

The Met did a super production of it recently (Live in HD) with Matthew Polenzani and Mariusz Kwiecien - see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgN8oPcTvOA
#6.1 John O'Connor on 2018-01-19 08:55 (Reply)

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