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nadine sierra in lucia di lammermoor at the metropolitan opera (2022, dir. simon stone, images 1 & 3) and the royal opera house (2024, dir. katie mitchell, images 2 & 4)
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nadine sierra in lucia di lammermoor at the metropolitan opera (2022, dir. simon stone, images 1 & 3) and the royal opera house (2024, dir. katie mitchell, images 2 & 4)
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the best bel canto comedies are really just…the best
Beverly Sills, Roberto Devereux. New York City Opera, 1971.
For those of you who'd like to try an opera, for free, legally, with English subtitles, I just stumbled across this beautiful performance of Donizetti's gentle romantic comedy, "The Elixir of Love!" It's the story of a simple but honest peasant who just wishes the love of his life returned his affections. When he overhears her relating the plot of an Arthurian legend that includes a love potion, he wonders if such a thing might really exist. Unfortunately for everyone, he starts wondering this on the very day that snake oil salesman "Doctor" Dulcamara arrives in town!
This is a fun starter opera, written in the bel canto style, which most listeners find enjoyable to get into. I haven't seen this specific production through (so, take this with a caveat, and let me know if any of the stage business isn't appropriate,) but from what I've seen so far, it's just lovely!
Hallowtide Opera Streams 👻
Two eerie tragedies set in windswept Scotland, featuring ghosts, murder and a famous mad scene. (Also, very hard to remove blood stains.)
Friday 31st October: Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti)
Time: 8pm UK time (check your local time)
Where: kosmi
Production: 2011 Met
Language: Italian (English subs)
Duration: 2h 20min
Cast: Dessay (Lucia), Calleja (Edgardo), Tezier (Enrico)
About: A gothic tale based on Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor. Lucia has fallen in love with Edgardo, a member of a rival family. However, her brother Enrico has already promised Lucia in marriage to another man, and he tricks her into believing Edgardo doesn't love her – with disastrous consequences.
Sunday 2nd November: Macbeth (Verdi)
Time: 7pm UK time (check your local time)
Where: kosmi
Production: 1987 film (dir. Claude d'Anna)
Language: Italian (English subs)
Duration: 2h 13min
Cast: Nucci (Macbeth), Verrett (Lady)
About: Well, you know the story. Opera film featuring the lady Macbeth, Shirley Verrett, who had already sung this role at La Scala with Cappuccilli some years prior.
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Opera Streams: Mid-Late October 2025
16th: Strauss's Die schweigsame Frau from Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Featuring Brenda Rae, Peter Rose, and Siyabonga Maqungo. Free (may require a VPN)!
17th: Beskorovainyi, Humaniuk & Reshitilov's Tiger Hunters from Kyiv National Academic Operetta Theatre. Featuring Oleksii Kyryllov, Valentyn Kotenko, Kateryna Yasenchuk. Free!
25th: Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro from Daegu Opera House. Featuring Eugenio Maria Degiacomi, Heekyung Park, and Anastasia Antropova. Free!
25th: Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore from Garsington Opera. Featuring Madison Leonard, Oleksiy Palchykov, and Carles Pachón. Free!
26th: Verdi's Nabucco from Teatro Comunale Modena. Featuring Fabian Veloz, Marta Torbidoni, and Matteo Desole. Free!
26th: The Operalia Finals live from Sofia, Bulgaria. Featuring emerging opera singers with finalists to be determined. Free (with login)!
Not opera but still music-with-narrative: Jacquelyn Stucker performs the song cycle "let me tell you" with the Finnish Radio Symphony orchestra on the 24th. The cycle is from the perspective of Ophelia, telling her own story. The concert also features work by Ravel and Schumann. Free!
You all have me obsessing about Lucia now, and I haven't listened to this particular recording in a while. (I really feel like this might be GDS's best Edgardo. And Scotto is surprisingly good. I mean, I like her, but I was skeptical of her singing Lucia, but she's actually quite good. Bastianini is, well, Bastianini.)
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