Women’s Soccer, July 2022: A SeriesThis is the seventh post in a series devoted to the 117 games of international women’s football played in July 2022, covering the second round of the Euros. If you’d like to start from the beginning (or to pick and choose your competitions), you can do so from my opening post. Next up is quarterfinals of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations.
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Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1973 (Knut Skram, Ileana Cotrubas, Kiri Te Kanawa, Benjamin Luxon; conducted by John Pritchard; English subtitles)
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1976 (Hermann Prey, Mirella Freni, Kiri Te Kanawa, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; conducted by Karl Böhm; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV
Tokyo National Theatre, 1980 (Hermann Prey, Lucia Popp, Gundula Janowitz, Bernd Weikl; conducted by Karl Böhm; Japanese subtitles)
Théâtre du Châtelet, 1993 (Bryn Terfel, Alison Hagley, Hillevi Martinpelto, Rodney Gilfry; conducted by John Eliot Gardiner; Italian subtitles)
Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1994 (Gerald Finley, Alison Hagley, Renée Fleming, Andreas Schmidt; conducted by Bernard Haitink; English subtitles)
Zürich Opera House, 1996 (Carlos Chaussón, Isabel Rey, Eva Mei, Rodney Gilfry; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; English subtitles)
Berlin State Opera, 2005 (Lauri Vasar, Anna Prohaska, Dorothea Röschmann, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo; conducted by Gustavo Dudamel; French subtitles)
Salzburg Festival, 2006 (Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Anna Netrebko, Dorothea Röschmann, Bo Skovhus; conducted by Nikolas Harnoncourt; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV
Teatro all Scala, 2006 (Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Diana Damrau, Marcella Orasatti Talamanca, Pietro Spagnoli; conducted by Gérard Korsten; English and Italian subtitles)
Salzburg Festival, 2015 (Adam Plachetka, Martina Janková, Anett Fritsch, Luca Pisaroni; conducted by Dan Ettinger; no subtitles)
Tosca
Carmine Gallone studio film, 1956 (Franca Duval dubbed by Maria Caniglia, Franco Corelli, Afro Poli dubbed by Giangiacomo Guelfi; conducted by Oliviero de Fabritiis; no subtitles)
Gianfranco de Bosio film, 1976 (Raina Kabaivanska, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes; conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; English subtitles)
Metropolitan Opera, 1978 (Shirley Verrett, Luciano Pavarotti, Cornell MacNeil; conducted by James Conlon; no subtitles)
Arena di Verona, 1984 (Eva Marton, Jaume Aragall, Ingvar Wixell; conducted by Daniel Oren; no subtitles)
Teatro Real de Madrid, 2004 (Daniela Dessí, Fabio Armiliato, Ruggero Raimondi; conducted by Maurizio Benini; English subtitles)
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2011 (Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel; conducted by Antonio Pappano; English subtitles)
Finnish National Opera, 2018 (Ausrinė Stundytė, Andrea Carè, Tuomas Pursio; conducted by Patrick Fournillier; English subtitles)
Teatro alla Scala 2019 (Anna Netrebko, Francesco Meli, Luca Salsi; conducted by Riccardo Chailly; Hungarian subtitles)
Vienna State Opera, 2019 (Sondra Radvanovsky, Piotr Beczala, Thomas Hampson; conducted by Marco Armiliato; English subtitles)
Ópera de las Palmas, 2024 (Erika Grimaldi, Piotr Beczala, George Gagnidze; conducted by Ramón Tebar; no subtitles)
Don Giovanni
Salzburg Festival, 1954 (Cesare Siepi, Otto Edelmann, Elisabeth Grümmer, Lisa della Casa; conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler; English subtitles)
Giacomo Vaccari studio film, 1960 (Mario Petri, Sesto Bruscantini, Teresa Stich-Randall, Leyla Gencer; conducted by Francesco Molinari-Pradelli; no subtitles)
Salzburg Festival, 1987 (Samuel Ramey, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Julia Varady; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; no subtitles)
Teatro alla Scala, 1987 (Thomas Allen, Claudio Desderi, Edita Gruberova, Ann Murray; conducted by Riccardo Muti; English subtitles)
Peter Sellars studio film, 1990 (Eugene Perry, Herbert Perry, Dominique Labelle, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson; conducted by Craig Smith; English subtitles)
Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, 1997 (Simon Keenlyside, Bryn Terfel, Carmela Remigio, Anna Caterina Antonacci; conducted by Claudio Abbado; no subtitles) – Act I, Act II
Zürich Opera, 2000 (Rodney Gilfry, László Polgár, Isabel Rey, Cecilia Bartoli; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; English subtitles)
Festival Aix-en-Provence, 2002 (Peter Mattei, Gilles Cachemaille, Alexandra Deshorties, Mirielle Delunsch; conducted by Daniel Harding; no subtitles)
Teatro Real de Madrid, 2006 (Carlos Álvarez, Lorenzo Regazzo, Maria Bayo, Sonia Ganassi; conducted by Victor Pablo Pérez; English subtitles)
Festival Aix-en-Provence, 2017 (Philippe Sly, Nahuel de Pierro, Eleonora Burratto, Isabel Leonard; conducted by Jérémie Rohrer; English subtitles)
Madama Butterfly
Mario Lanfranchi studio film, 1956 (Anna Moffo, Renato Cioni; conducted by Oliviero de Fabritiis; no subtitles)
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1974 (Mirella Freni, Plácido Domingo; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; English subtitles)
New York City Opera, 1982 (Judith Haddon, Jerry Hadley; conducted by Christopher Keene; English subtitles)
Frédéric Mitterand film, 1995 (Ying Huang, Richard Troxell; conducted by James Conlon; English subtitles)
Arena di Verona, 2004 (Fiorenza Cedolins, Marcello Giordani; conducted by Daniel Oren; Spanish subtitles)
Sferisterio Opera Festival, 2009 (Raffaela Angeletti, Massimiliano Pisapia; conducted by Daniele Callegari; no subtitles)
Vienna State Opera, 2017 (Maria José Siri, Murat Karahan; conducted by Jonathan Darlington; no subtitles)
Wichita Grand Opera, 2017 (Yunnie Park, Kirk Dougherty; conducted by Martin Mazik; English subtitles)
Teatro San Carlo, 2019 (Evgenia Muraveva, Saimir Pirgu; conducted by Gabriele Ferro; no subtitles)
Rennes Opera House, 2022 (Karah Son, Angelo Villari; conducted by Rudolf Piehlmayer; French subtitles)
How is it to grow up with a professor/ex-auror (he would probably say there's no such thing as an ex-auror) for a father?
T: *gasp!* "He's an ex-Auror?! You don't say! Did he ever mention anything to you?"
M: "I really had no idea, Theo, I don't think he ever said-"
E: "said anything about this fact in the past 24 hours."
*chuckling*
N: "No, he actually doesn't mention it that often, but he tells us some of the stories from his time as one. Mainly to teach us some sort of lesson, something that he only learned later in life, but wished he'd known sooner.
M: "He knows a lot of people from the Ministry still. When I was little, we got a pet kneazle. It normally takes some time to get the proper permits and such, it can apparently take even months! Well, dad sent Diana to someone he knew with a letter one day, and the next day Aunt Poppy came around with the proper permit and a kneazle kitten! Of course we named her Popps!"
E: "Not to mention he's on first name basis with all of the professors, including the deputy headmistress."
T: "That can be both a blessing and a curse. Every time someone has a birthday, we have a little celebration in Hogsmeade on the weekend. Dad Floos Professor Weasley, and suddenly first and second years are allowed to go to Hogsmeade! However, every time someone gets into detention for something, the parents are going to know right away. Though that's usually Sebastian owling mum. Eh, Professor Sallow, that is."
N: "Let's not forget that not all of us like to frequent detention, Theo. Dad basically always says not to burn any bridges and always leave on good terms, be it a profession or a relationship, and it clearly works."
E: "One thing I noticed is that him being a teacher taught him how to know how some people learn best. What works best with them, essentially. For me, I do best with clear instructions, while Maggie needs to see in order to understand."
N: "And Theo learns by trial and error!"
T: "Haha, I suppose that's right. He's a, well, he's definetely older than he was when he was an Auror, but it seems that age has no effect on him. He's still able to move around without making a single sound, his reflexes are lightning fast, and lying to him is absolutely pointless. Not only he knows when someone is lying, he also absolutely hates dishonesty. Nothing gets past him. He's a heavy sleeper - in summer when we're all home, we could all be stomping like erumpents, and talk really loudly downstairs, and dad would be happily sleeping on. However, every time I've attempted to sneak out at night to go outside for a bit, he caught me before I even climbed down the stairs. It's a little infuriating, to be honest."
N: "He was obviously very good in his job. But it sems some of his Auror 'aura' got brought into his professor years as well. Uncle Amit once told me that while he always looked up to Dad, he found him rather intimidating as well. On one hand, I understand. I mean, Dad can appear intimidating, he's tall and strong, he can be strict and his scar can put some people off. But at the same time, well, he's Dad! And he always has so much patience with us, it's difficult to imagine him being in any way different than to when he was still teaching, but apparently he was quite hard on his students."
E: "Which is understandable! Potions can be incredibly dangerous, so of course he had to be strict and hard! I think that when you have a a large number of students, which he had, you can't individually appeal to everyone's learning styles, the lesson is only so long."
M: "You'd think than him being a former potions teacher would mean all of us automatically get good marks, that he makes sure our essays are up to par and such. Well, no. He does help us, he answers questions, gives pointers, but won't proofread our work as in his mind that crosses the line into cheating, as he knows how the essays are graded from the teacher’s point of view. We do get good marks, but we do so through our own hard work. Dad would rather have any of us get an A through our work, than an O through cheating."
T: "Overall, he's a good dad. Great one actually... The best one. He's honestly my greatest role model and always will be. Both him and Mum."
E: "I agree."
M: "Ditto."
N: "A lot of our friends have problems with their parents, they're either butting heads too much, or the parents have ridiculous expectations, or they are overbearing or instead don't care that much about their kid. While our dad and mum tend to be slightly overbearing sometimes, I wouldn't change a single thing about either of them. We are lucky to be the Sharps."
E: "Anyway, thank you for the owl! I think I'll go hug Dad now, maybe he'll even let me assist him in the shop!"
M: "And then we could all go to the Three Broomsticks after he's done working. I'll see if Mum's up for an evening out. Bye for now!"
16. At what point in the process do you come up with titles?
This can happen at any time (or not at all lol)! Sometimes I have the title in mind before I start writing, sometimes I get the idea in the middle of writing a paragraph, and sometimes I sit there ready to publish and think "F U C K" because I realise I still need a title and I can't come up with anything good.
That's how titles like Gourd Intentions and 47 Shades of Burnwood happened. I am very sorry about that.
25. Have you ever upset yourself with your own writing?
Yes, haha. When I Would Lose Myself in (Every Single One of) You and its sequels made me really, really sad because I couldn't stop thinking about the cruel situation Edwards I put Diana and 47 in. :(
29. Share a bit from a fic you’ll never post OR from a scene that was cut from an already posted fic.
This one is from an AU I started two-ish years ago and then abandoned because the whole idea felt stupid. I don't think I'll ever finish it, buuut... we'll see. There's always April 1st and my Crack Treated Seriously tradition, I guess.
On her desk she keeps an oil lamp and a coffee mug, empty and clean, and to his surprise, an old photo of him. He blushes as he reaches out for it, touching it with shivering fingers. He’s been at headquarters that day, visiting her in her office. 47 remembers how she laughed when she took that photo, proof that he existed, and how they shared a lunch of salty snacks and Dr Popp from the vending machine. Another time, long gone. She has kept that photo, decided to take it with her when she had to leave so much behind. It flatters him.
help im turning into my dad... anyways i found a new opera to focus on but i'll do my best to save it for myself as a treat for tomorrow
also my top 5 in no particular order are: Diana Damrau, Lucia Popp, Natalie Dessay, Edda Moser, and Susanne Elmark, with an honorary mention of Erika Miklosa for actually holding the prop knife. altho i rated them holistically w costuming/setting in mind as well lol. wild to see how even the cream-of-the-crop pros have trouble with not rushing, altho its 10000% understandable - i cant even scream that high
I know it's not important, but I need (as in, I have an irrepressible yearning) to have a top-5 list of favorite recordings of Strauss Vier letzte Lieder, and, much as I love her, I can't put Diana Damrau's version, unfortunately, on that list.
(Don't get me wrong; she sounds amazing as always. These poems require a vulnerability and wisdom that simply enunciating the text in perfect Hochdeutsch does not address; nor is their expression to be found in alternate plunging and soaring -- Frau Damrau's calling card, for which I will clap like a fool every time she does it.)
Lucia Popp's performances of this cycle are (to my ear at least) the rod by which the ongoing tradition of these four songs are to be measured. I know that I am biased because the one linked directly above is a recording of my late friend, but it's also very good without that bit of information. This is no doubt because Mz. Wall was what is often called a Mozart-Strauss soprano, so the fit is proper, and the song cycle that this piece is from (to my ear at least) is the pinnacle of Orchesterlieder. (For whatever reason, I really have no ear for the Fleming voice.) It is not a competition, but excellence encourages excellence.
Contrariwise, Barbara Bonney's performance is glorious, precisely because she takes Lieder seriously. Her recording of the set uses the piano transcription (something most sopranos who sing this cycle wouldn't do for the risk of not being taken seriously). She, too, was a soprano whose voice caught the light of Strauss like a crystal. But hers was too light a voice for the orchestrations such as they are. Still, it would not be right if we did not have a record of her reading of the poems.
Caravana EveryGirl la Liceul ”Voltaire” din Craiova
Caravana EveryGirl la Liceul ”Voltaire” din Craiova
Dinamica din domeniul tehnologiei ne arată că tot ceea ce pare astăzi imposibil va deveni mâine o realitate, pentru că fiecare zi oferă posibilitatea de a învăța ceva nou. Tehnologia este un spațiu care evoluează continuu, iar oportunitatea de a face ceva ce schimbă din temelii cursul lumii este mai la îndemână ca oricând.
De la medicină la arte și de la științele sociale la științele economice,…
Another thing I've been thinking about - or how singing is accidentally really spiritual and how this might work in Motherland Fort Salem.
So in my last post I talked about face shapes.
Another thing that really influences the colour of the sounds one can produce, as well as the intensity, is age. And this makes me a little excited in relation to MFS because Alder has the power to vary her age.
Disclaimer: you might have already noticed in my previous post that the perspective that I'm using in regards to singing is a classical one. That's what I was trained in and I think that there are a lot of merits to looking at singing from that vantage point. I would argue that classical singing is at the same time the most technically challenging kind of singing - it has to be; classical singing is supposed to reliably fill concert halls just with your voice without ruining your health after a week, no microphones - and the way of singing where you need to understand your voice so well that you can then, using this knowledge, protect it better from overuse.
Also - and this is the way it was for me but I think this happens generally in the classical approach - classical singing allows you to go to your lesson and then you and your teacher try to figure out what your voice is like exactly, what your weaknesses and strengths are and then how to allow all your different potential to shine. We think a lot about face shapes, voice projection and breath support - and age.
The colour of your voice changes naturally as you age, and I'm not speaking of the voice change in puberty, I'm speaking of the maturation of your voice in your 40s.
For sopranos in the classical world (I'm a soprano so this is what I know) this change is quite important, very, very generally one can say:
- children: naturally have a lot of higher frequencies in their voices, they can be very light and aethereal and bright. They usually don't have a lot of natural vibrato, so their sound is slimmer, sometimes flute-like. I'm thinking of a young Jean-Baptiste Maunier:
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He starts singing at around 1.25.
-young sopranos (ca. 14/5 to 35) - (usually) lyrical sopranos: retain much of the brightness and lightness of the child voice but - see voice change - they have a lot more natural vibrato and their voice is a little darker than a child's voice. A really nice example of the kind of sound I'm talking about here is this recording by Lucia Popp:
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She sounds like a bell, it's quite extraordinary.
- older sopranos (ca. from late 30s on) - lyrical sopranos can become dramatic sopranos: some lyrical sopranos gain sufficient dark colours and weight in their voice to be able to sing what is called "dramatic repertoire", i.e. pieces that we usually associate with 'operatic divas'. These older sopranos are able to sing pieces that require both more vibrato as well as more volume and fullness of sound - you can't sing Wagner satisfactorily, you might not even make it through his operas, if you are not a dramatic soprano. Funnily enough, the recording by Lucia Popp that I've just mentioned is actually a miscasting - the Queen of the Night is a dramatic soprano, her arias are intense, passionate and somewhat violent, you need a dramatic soprano for this. (Lucia Popp's recording is very beautiful but aesthetically, and for this role in the opera, it's not right).
A fitting Queen of the Night would be someone like Diana Damrau:
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Now what has that got to do with Motherland Fort Salem.
The witches are not classically trained (and frankly, the workings don't make sense mechanically, sound production does not work the way it's envisioned there) but that aside they do use their voices and the development I've described for classical singers happens to everyone - if you sing or not, classical singers are just really attuned to noticing and using this changing of the voice.
Age-wise, Alder would be in the age bracket for a dramatic soprano; which is interesting to me because Alder is depicted as being able to wield powerful, momentous kinds of magic; and in the classical singing world this power to raise a storm and make the sea boil is very much dramatic soprano. Not saying that a lyrical soprano couldn't do it but it wouldn't have the same energy and power.
I think this might be quite a nice counterweight to 'witches must be young and sexy' (which we thankfully don't have in MFS). If it's about singing and power, the middle-aged witches are MOST definitely the most powerful hands down. They'll need to have taken care of their voices in their youths and trained properly but if they have; well, dramatic sopranos are terrifying.
So, if this was applied to MFS the shape of the face would not be the only thing the trainees would be paying attention to. They would also be very invested in taking care of themselves and in making the best out of their already existing vocal talent. To be fair, having only dramatic soprano types would be a little boring (I'm actually more of a sucker for warm, lyrical sopranos), but then again, I suppose workings don't actually have to only be about war, violence and destruction (and sorry dramatic sopranos but this is you).
Also (caution: bad joke): you do need to be a certain age to fully understand the weight of your actions (hence, for weightier actions, older age and weightier voice is more effective). To wreak destruction, you must understand it. This is the burden, pain, and wisdom of age. (Cue Alder being really powerful, no surprise.)
If I were Alder, I would let my age vary depending on what kind of working she has to perform - for all the powerful, aggressive stuff, her age is perfect. But for more subtle workings, or more serene and peaceful workings, her voice would sound better younger. And now isn't it interesting that Khalida, head of the Tarim, a pacifist witch clan, seems really old but is in a child's body with a child's voice.
I like to imagine two things:
- child Alder - because sometimes you need other kinds of workings, too - walking around Fort Salem, her biddies in tow, and giving dubiously looking recruits or recruits who dare squat down and ask her if she is lost an absolute death glare.
- and child Alder and her biddies standing in a field, under a sky full of stars and singing long lost seeds of her family. And any nosy recruits who whisper: what is she doing there? - are shushed. "She is capturing the light of the stars, ephemeral and bright."
I can’t find the original post, but at some point I wrote about 47 buying lots of gifts for Diana under the guise of ‘blending in’, and @diana-fortyseven challenged me to write a fic about it. Finally liberated it from the drafts folder! 🎁✨🌃
Needed to blend in and I didn’t want these to go to waste.
Diana folded the note and slipped it into her pocket, then turned her attention to the cardboard box that had appeared on her desk that afternoon. The contents glinted in the soft light: a filigree lamp crafted from coppery metal and amber-coloured glass, tiny jars of red and gold powder, a wooden box filled with dried fruit and nuts, a beautiful silver vessel filled with perfume. She pulled out a soft bundle wrapped in tissue paper and opened it to reveal a blood-red cashmere scarf.
She wrapped the fabric around her. It was soft and warm and smelled faintly of the market in Marrakech; of spices and shisha and fragrant oils. The scarf was same colour as 47’s favourite tie. She imagined his hands, long pale fingers, running idly over these treasures as he eavesdropped on their targets.
“I knew it would suit you.”
She jumped, and turned to find him hovering in the doorway. The corridors of the ICA building were dark behind him.
“You’re still here”, she said. A pointless observation.
He nodded.
“Leaving presents in my office now, 47? People will talk…” she joked.
He shrugged. “No more than usual.”
She huffed a nervous laugh.
He stiffened. “I’m sorry. I thought-“
She took a few steps towards him, reaching out to place reassuring hands on his shoulders.
“Thank you”, she whispered as she leaned up to kiss him on the cheek. His face was pink when she pulled away.
He stared at her for a moment, seemingly lost in thought, then cleared his throat and looked at his watch. “It’s late. Have you eaten?”
“No.”
“May I- take you to dinner?” He said without looking at her.
“It’s past midnight, everywhere is closed.”
“Right, of course. Another time, then.”
He looked dejected for a second, before arranging his features back into that impassive mask she was so familiar with. He was beautiful in the half-shadow: skin so pale he could have been carved from marble.
“Goodnight”, he said, before turning away from her.
“47”, she caught his hand in hers, “there’s a vending machine on the second floor. How do you feel about a midnight snack?”
***
47 disabled the alarm on the fire escape, and they made their way up to the roof with their bounty. He spread his jacket out on the concrete, and they sat shoulder to shoulder, eating crisps and chocolate bars and watching the lights of the city glitter below them.
“Cheers”, Diana said, clunking her can of Dr Popp against his.
She started shivering after an hour or so, and he suggested they head back inside.
“A little longer”, she protested, pulling the red scarf around her shoulders, “it’s so peaceful up here.”
When she rested her head on his shoulder, he placed a tentative arm around her. They must have fallen asleep like that - backs against the rusty air conditioning unit - because next thing they knew the sun was coming up.
“Diana”, 47 said softy, gently sweeping a piece of hair from her face, “it’s 4am.”
Dc Comic Character Themes! Songs and Characters below the cut!
Also, Carter is 80s superboy, Conner is the yj cartoon/tshirt suberboy, and Lane is jonathan lane kent superboy, while jon is Jonathan Samuel Kent the current superman.
Bruce -- Life On The Moon - David Cook
Alfred -- This Is Your Life - Switchfoot
Gordon -- Deadman - SAINT PHNX
Bullock -- Is Anyone Out There? - Delta Rae
Kate -- Cookie Cutter - Ivory Lane
Luke -- Courage - Clay Finnesand
Barbara -- Survior -- 2WEI & Edda Hayes
Dick -- Eyes Warm, Eyes Wide - Lilli Furfaro
Jason -- Burning Alive - 8 Graves
Tim -- Haze - Tessa Violet
Cassandra -- Will I Find My Home? - Juniper Vale & Vian Izak
Stephanie -- Masterpiece - Summer Luk
Damian -- Bones - Emily Finchum
Duke -- Infinite (Unsung Hereos) - Built By Titans
M.A.C. Cosmetics - Canadian Original - What an incredible two days of working with the supremely talented Gemma Warren to capture such stirring motion and stills for M.A.C. Cosmetics for their Canadian Originals campaign. Featuring the incomparable Tessa Virtue and a host of incredible talent from all walks of life, this project was a highlight of my year. This campaign was as eye-catching as it was eye-opening!
Gemma and the whole Popp Rok team were kinetic, energetic and so fun to work with. Such a great time.
I've shared links to complete opera performances before, but I love to share them, so I thought I'd make a few masterposts.
These list are by no means the only complete filmed performances of these operas on YouTube, but I decided that ten links for each opera was enough for now.
By the way, some of the subtitles are just a part of the video, while others require you to click CC to see them.
Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
Hamburg Philharmonic State Opera, 1971 (Nicolai Gedda, Edith Mathis, William Workman, Christina Deutekom, Hans Sotin; conducted by Horst Stein; English subtitles)
Ingmar Bergman film, 1975 (Josef Köstlinger, Irma Urrila, Håkan Hagegård, Birgit Nordin, Ulrik Cold; conducted by Eric Ericson; sung in Swedish; English subtitles)
Salzburg Festival, 1982 (Peter Schreier, Ileana Cotrubas, Christian Bösch, Edita Gruberova, Martti Talvela; conducted by James Levine; Japanese subtitles)
Bavarian State Opera, 1983 (Francisco Araiza, Lucia Popp, Wolfgang Brendel, Edita Gruberova, Kurt Moll; conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch; English subtitles)
Metropolitan Opera, 1991 (Francisco Araiza, Kathleen Battle, Manfred Hemm, Luciana Serra, Kurt Moll; conducted by James Levine; English subtitles)
Paris Opera, 2001 (Piotr Beczala, Dorothea Röschmann, Detlef Roth, Desirée Rancatore, Matti Salminen; conducted by Ivan Fischer; no subtitles)
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2003 (Will Hartman, Dorothea Röschmann, Simon Keenlyside, Diana Damrau, Franz Josef Selig; conducted by Colin Davis; no subtitles) – Act I, Act II
La Monnaie, Brussels, 2005 (Topi Lehtipuu, Sophie Karthäuser, Stephan Loger, Ana Camelia Stefanescu, Harry Peeters; conducted by René Jacobs; French subtitles)
Kenneth Branagh film, 2006 (Joseph Kaiser, Amy Carson, Benjamin Jay Davis, Lyubov Petrova, René Pape; conducted by James Conlon; sung in English)
San Francisco Opera, 2010 (Piotr Beczala, Dina Kuznetsoca, Christopher Maltman, Erika Miklósa, Georg Zeppenfeld; conducted by Donald Runnicles; English subtitles)
La Traviata
Mario Lanfrachi studio film, 1968 (Anna Moffo, Franco Bonisolli, Gino Bechi; conducted by Giuseppe Patané; English subtitles)
Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1987 (Marie McLaughlin, Walter MacNeil, Brent Ellis; conducted by Bernard Haitink; Italian and Portuguese subtitles)
Teatro alla Scala, 1992 (Tiziana Fabbricini, Roberto Alagna, Paolo Coni; conducted by Riccardo Muti; English subtitles)
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1994 (Angela Gheorghiu, Frank Lopardo, Leo Nucci; conducted by Georg Solti; Spanish subtitles)
Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, 2003 (Stefania Bonfadelli, Scott Piper, Renato Bruson; conducted by Plácido Domingo; Spanish subtitles)
Salzburg Festival, 2005 (Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón, Thomas Hampson; conducted by Carlo Rizzi; no subtitles)
Los Angeles Opera, 2006 (Renée Fleming, Rolando Villazón, Renato Bruson; conducted by James Conlon; English subtitles)
Opera Festival St. Margarethen, 2008 (Kristiane Kaiser, Jean-Francois Borras, Georg Tichy; conducted by Ernst Märzendorfer; English subtitles)
Teatro Real di Madrid, 2015 (Ermonela Jaho, Francesco Demuro, Juan Jesús Rodríguez; conducted by Renato Palumbo; English subtitles)
Teatro Massimo, 2023 (Nino Machiadze, Saimir Pirgu, Roberto Frontali; conducted by Carlo Goldstein; no subtitles)
Carmen
Herbert von Karajan studio film, 1967 (Grace Bumbry, Jon Vickers; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; English subtitles)
Vienna State Opera, 1978 (Elena Obraztsova, Plácido Domingo; conducted by Carlos Kleiber; English Subtitles)
Francisco Rosi film, 1982 (Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo; conducted by Lorin Maazel; English subtitles)
Metropolitan Opera, 1987 (Agnes Baltsa, José Carreras; conducted by James Levine; English subtitles)
London Earls Court Arena, 1989 (Maria Ewing, Jacque Trussel; conducted by Jaques Delacote; English subtitles)
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1991 (Maria Ewing, Luis Lima; conducted by Zubin Mehta; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV
Arena di Verona, 2003 (Marina Domashenko, Marco Berti; conducted by Alain Lombard; Italian subtitles)
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2006 (Anna Caterina Antonacci, Jonas Kaufmann; conducted by Antonio Pappano; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV
Metropolitan Opera, 2010 (Elina Garanca, Roberto Alagna; conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV
Opéra-Comique, 2023 (Gaëlle Arquez, Frédéric Antoun; conducted by Louis Langrée; English subtitles)
La Bohéme
Franco Zeffirelli studio film, 1965 (Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; English subtitles)
Metropolitan Opera, 1977 (Renata Scotto, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by James Levine; no subtitles)
Teatro alla Scala, 1979 (Ileana Cotrubas, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by Carlos Kleiber; no subtitles)
Opera Australia, 1993 (Cheryl Barker, David Hobson; conducted by Julian Smith; Brazilian Portuguese subtitles)
Teatro Regio di Torino, 1996 (Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by Daniel Oren; Italian subtitles)
Teatro alla Scala, 2003 (Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Marcelo Alvarez; conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; Spanish subtitles)
Zürich Opera House, 2005 (Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Marcello Giordani; conducted by Franz Welser-Möst; no subtitles)
Robert Dornhelm film, 2009 (Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón; conducted by Bertrand de Billy; no subtitles)
Opera Australia, 2011 (Takesha Meshé Kizart, Ji-Min Park; Shao-Chia Lü; no subtitles)
Sigulda Opera Festival, 2022 (Maija Kovalevska, Mihail Mihaylov; conducted by Vladimir Kiradjiev; English subtitles)
Jackson, Tenn (June 21, 2017) – The Office of Admissions and Records at Jackson State Community College released the honor roll for the Spring 2017 semester. On the honor roll, there were 307 full-time students who achieved a quality point average over 3.00. There were 381 students who made the dean’s list by achieving a quality point average of 3.50 or better.
Honor Roll is reserved for students who are enrolled for twelve (12) or more hours of college-level work (Learning Support excluded) and who complete a semester’s work with a quality point average between 3.00 and 3.49.
Dean’s List is reserved for students who are enrolled for twelve (12) or more hours of college-level work and who complete a semester’s work with a quality point average between 3.50 and 4.00.
Diana Damrau - Queen of the Night (The Magic Flute)
Full Song Title: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Aria (Queen of night)
Here is another one of my favorite Mozart pieces,it's from the Opera Die Zauberflöte K. 620 (The Magic Flute). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of my absolute favorite composers and I can't get enough of him :-) .
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty.
At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his death. The circumstances of his early death have been much mythologized. He was survived by his wife Constanze and two sons.
He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence on subsequent Western art music is profound. Ludwig van Beethoven composed his own early works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote that "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years".
Diana Damrau, is one of the most sensational opera singers to emerge in the past decade. She has a sparkling voice that exudes personality, and her technique is so secure that she can concentrate her talents into bringing out a character's dramatic nuances. In Mozart's operas, she has already sung Kostanze in the "Entführung aus dem Serail," Susanna in "Le Nozze di Figaro," Servillia in "La Clemenza di Tito" and Fauno in "Ascanio in Alba." She has also assayed the lead roles in Donizetti's "Don Pasquale and L 'Elisir d 'Amore," Rossini's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia," Salieri's "Europa Riconosciuta" and Strauss' "Die Ägyptische Helena," "Ariadne auf Naxos," "Arabella" and "Der Rosenkavalier." While she is an outstanding and endearing presence in all these operas, the role where she remains nonpareil is as the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte k. 620).
No other soprano, not even those legendary singers that include Lucia Popp, Roberta Peters, Luciana Serra or Sumi Jo, have mastered the role's technical and dramatic demands the way Damrau has in the past decade or so that she has been singing this extremely complex character. In the ten minutes that she is onstage, she breathes so much life into the Queen that she can save a performance from mediocrity.
Mrs. Damrau retired this singing part in 2006. Most opera stars sing the role and then put it away forever because it's so hard on the voice. Well, those are High Fs. A lot of them :-).
The Magic Flute (German: Die Zauberflöte), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue. The work premiered on 30 September 1791 at Schikaneder's theatre, the Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna.
Felicidades! Enhorabuena! Te compadezco! Vaya maldad!…. Cosillas así oirás hoy si te llamas:
San Asterio de Petra ( Patrón de los que padecen Histeria que por cierto esta palabra proviene del griego ὑστέρα, «útero» )
San Amancio mártir ( Patrón de Zara )
San Arecio mártir ( Patrón de los que pasan frío )
San Bogumilo de Gniezno ( Patrón que ama a Dios en Eslavo )
San Censurio de Auxerre ( Patrón de la ley Mordaza )
San Críspulo ( Patrón de las irritaciones )
San Itamar de Rochester ( Primo de Rakel Winchester )
San Landerico de París ( De donde vienen los niños )
San Maurino abad ( Primo andrógeno de Mourinho y el que retransmite las motos )
San Trípodes mártir ( 😂 )
Beata Diana de Andaló ( Patrona de los 200 puntos )
Beato Eduardo Poppe ( Patrón de las dilataciones anales )
Beato Enrique de Bolzano ( Patrón de los negadores de Bolsas )
Beato Gualterio Pierson ( Break, pedazo de serie )
Beato Juan Dominici ( Aunque lo leas con acento italiano se lee Dominizi )
Beato Tomás Green ( Patrón de los turbados de verde )
El 10 de junio es el 161.º (centésimo sexagésimo primer) día del año en el calendario gregoriano y el 162.º en los años bisiestos.
Hoy cumple años Soraya Sáez de Santamaría, 41 nada más, quien lo diría… Pero el mismo día de 1988 Josep Tarradellas, político español fallece, dejándonos de herencia sus pizzas que años más tarde se popularizaron.
En 1907.- Auguste Lumiére presenta en París la fotografía en color.
En 1951.- España gana el campeonato mundial de hockey sobre patines al vencer a Portugal por 4-3.
En 1987.- Se celebran en España las primeras elecciones al Parlamento Europeo, en las que el PSOE es el partido más votado, seguido de AP, CDS e IU.
En 1989.- La tenista Arancha Sánchez Vicario gana el torneo Roland Garros y se convierte en la primera española que logra un Grand Slam.
En 2007.- El tenista español Rafael Nadal conquista su tercer título consecutivo de Roland Garros.
En 2008.- Los países de la Unión Europea acuerdan ampliar los límites de la jornada laboral hasta un máximo de 65 horas semanales.
En 2015.- El papa Francisco aprueba un procedimiento para juzgar a obispos en casos de pederastia.