While I am sharing impressions of opera performances that I can't easily recall, I will deal with the October performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni. I was really excited about seeing this opera. I had seen a very modernistic version in the past and was really curious about how the staging would be done especially with regard to the talking statute on the Commendatore's grave and with Don Giovanni being consumed by flames. I recall the opera as being well staged and more traditional. However, it seemed like Don Giovanni in the end just fell through a trap door on the stage. The music in this opera has grown on me over the years. The cast included Susan Graham as Donna Elvira and Isabel Leonard as Zerlina.
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09/24/2009
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- Tosca by Puccini. Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Tito Gobbi:
This 1953 recording conducted by Victor de Sabata at La Scala is likely the definitive recording of the opera. A 1964 video of the same cast at Covent Garden can be found on "You Tube."
The pants role that Susan Graham, the mezzo-soprano, plays is a feature of lots of comic operas (Marriage of Figaro, etc.). it usually is the occasion for cross dressing nonsense, as in Der Rosenkavalier. Strauss is especially famous for the orchestrations in all of his operas. i will see it today. Can't wait.
Posted by: Frank Samford | 01/09/2010 at 11:53 AM