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marleneoftheopera · 3 years

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1400 Followers Audio Gifts!

To thank you all for following me, being so wonderful, and just surviving a pandemic, here are some gifts from me!

I know I originally said I was going to do 10, but I got a good amount of requests and wanted to add in a few extra favorite audios of mine too. So you get 20! Sorry if I did not post your request; there were many!

If any need to be taken down, do let me know!

Here is the link to all of the audios, cast info is below!

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/a3xda9hu7mu3u/Gifts

The Phantom of the Opera

Michael Crawford, Rebecca Caine, Steve Barton October 10, 1987; London Listed as being Michael Crawford and Steve Barton's last before heading to New York to start rehearsals for Broadway. Beautiful soundboard audio. This is the complete version; there has previously been an incomplete one traded out.

Eiji Akutagawa, Kyoko Suzuki, Kanji Ishimaru September 22, 1991; Osaka Always here for Japanese love.

Hans Peter Janssens, Susanne Duwe, Michael Shawn Lewis, An Lauwreins, William Lynn Dixon, Marc Meersman, Arnst van Looy, Stephanie Tscheppe June 2, 2000; Antwerp, Belgium Final show in Belgium. Very nice cast all around.

Hugh Panaro, Adrienne McEwan, John Cudia, Patricia Phillips, Jeff Keller, George Lee Andrews, Marilyn Caskey, Larry Wayne Morbitt, Heather McFadden June 16, 2003; Broadway Hugh in his second Broadway run. Adrienne has become a favorite of mine and I think she never gets the credit she deserves, especially having been in the show for so long.

Hugh Panaro, Susan Owen (u/s), Kyle Barisich February 20, 2012; Broadway A lovely audio. Susan has such a sweet, light quality to her voice.

Hugh Panaro, Samantha Hill, Kyle Barisich, Michele McConnell, Greg Mills (u/s), Tim Jerome, Nathan Patrick Morgan (u/s), Carly Blake Sebouhian (u/s) April 6, 2013; Broadway More Hugh. You can never have enough Hugh.

Peter Joback, Emmi Christensson, Anton Zetterholm, Karolina Andresson, Glenn Kjellberg, Rolf Lydhal, Sindre Postholm, Sanna Martin, Tehilla Blad, David Ingham, Samuel Jarrick, Martin Kagemark, John Martin Bengtsson February 1, 2017; Stockholm I loved this production so much.

Ben Forster, Celinde Schoenmaker, Nadim Naaman, Charlotte Vaughan (u/s, last Carlotta show), Sion Lloyd, Mark Oxtoby, Paul Ettore Tabone, Joanna Strand (u/s, last Madame Giry show), Daisy Hulbert August 31, 2017; London A few days before cast change. One of my favorite audios as of late.

Fred Johanson, Hanna Liina Vosa, John Martin Bengtsson, Hanna Leena Haapamaki, Dardan Bakraqi, David Lundqvist, Anders Wangdhal, Lana Zuzic, Gisela Sjostedt, Lars Hijertner, Marco Stella, Tobja Halsell, Peter Loguin January 26, 2018; Gotheborg From the non-replica production. With John as Raoul this time!

Scott Davies, Kelly Mathieson, Jeremy Taylor, Lara Martins, Sean Lloyd, Mark Oxtoby, Jacinta Mulcahy May 31, 2018; London This is labeled as having Ben Lewis, but if you listen it’s really Scott.

Tomas Ambt Kofod, Sibylle Glosted, Christian Lund, Martin Loft (u/s), Monsieur André, Anna Vaupel (u/s), Rasmus Jupin, Elisabeth Halling, Imogen-Lily Ash, Jesper Paasch, Kim Hammelsvang, Paul Frederiksen, Paul Frederiksen (u/s), Mia Karlsson (u/s) February 13, 2019; Copenhagen Compared to other audios, you can tell that Sibylle has really settled in the role and improved wonderfully. She sounds absolutely divine. An absolutely gorgeous cast.

Jonathan Roxmouth, Meghan Picerno, Matt Leisy September 3, 2019; Tel Aviv One of Meghan's last shows on the World Tour before she joined the Broadway company. Jonathan and Meghan sound particularly stunning on here, they keep getting better which is insane because they are already so good.

Tim Howar, Amy Manford (alt), Jeremy Taylor, Ross Dawes, Alan Vicary, Kimberly Blake, Paul Ettore Tabone, Jacinta Mulcahy, Georgia Ware September 7, 2019; London Amy Manford's last show, the last matinee for the 2018/19 cast. Just to be clear, this audio is different from the other that is NFT. Pretty nice quality too!

Love Never Dies

Ramin Karimloo, Sierra Boggess, Joseph Millson, Liz Robertson, Summer Strallen, Niahm Perry, Adam Pearce, Jami Reid-Quarrell June 2, 2010; London A gift for all my Rierra/LND London fans out there.

Tomas Ambt Kofod, Louise Fribo, Christian Berg, Oscar Diez January 18, 2013; Copenhagen, Denmark This is an overlooked and gorgeous production. Also, after 'Love Never Dies' someone in the audience shouts "wow" and I think that captures it perfectly.

Evita

Emma Kingston (Eva), Ramin Karimloo (Che), Robert Finlayson (Peron), Anton Luiting (Magaldi), Isabella Jane (Mistress) July 4, 2018; Tokyo Emma as Eva and Ramin as Che. Some great casting there.

Anastasia

Annakathrin Naderer (u/s Anya), Thomas Hohler (Dimitry), Thorsten Tinney (Vlad), Mark Roy Luykx (u/s Gleb), Theresa Holter (Young Anastasia), Patricia Nessy (Lily Malevsky-Malevitch), Masha Karrell (Dowager Empress Maria), Katja Hentschel (u/s Tsarina Alexandra), Kirill Zolygin (Tsar Nicholas II/Count Ipolitov), Helena Thordal Christenson (Olga Romanov), Alexandra Yoana-Alexandrovna (u/s Tatiana Romanov/Dunya), Laura Robinson (u/s Maria Romanov/Marfa), Mariana Hidemi (Anastasia, age 17/Paulina) August 10, 2019; Stuttgart I have yet to listen to this one yet, but I always love spreading love for foreign productions of shows.

Les Miserables

Kyle Jean-Baptiste (u/s Valjean), Earl Carpenter (Javert), Erika Henningsen (Fantine), Chris McCarrell (Marius), Samantha Hill (Cosette), Brennyn Lark (Eponine), Max Quinlan (u/s Enjolras), Gavin Lee (Monsieur Thenardier), and Rachel Izen (Madame Thenardier) August 13, 2015; Broadway A really great cast and Kyle deserves to be heard. He was brilliant and it is such a shame he passed so early on in his life.

John Owen-Jones (Jean Valjean), Michael Ball (Javert), Carrie Hope Fletcher (Fantine), Matt Lucas (Thenardier), Katy Secombe (Thenardier), Bradley Jaden (Enjolras), Craig Mather (Marius u/s), Shan Ako (Eponine), Lily Kerhoas (Cosette) Earl Carpenter (Bishop/Bamatabois) October 16, 2019; Staged Concert, Gielguld Theatre Gorgeous.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Sheridan Smith (Narrator), Jason Donovan (Pharaoh), Jac Yarrow (Joseph), Femi Akinfolarin (Brother), Casey Al-Shaqsy (Wife), J.R. Ballantyne (Brother), Thalia Burt (Wife), Richard Carson (Reuben), Michael Cortez (Guard), Vanessa Fisher (Wife), Matt Krzan (Guard), Kelsie-Rae Marshall (Wife), Emily Ann Potter (Wife), Georgina Parkinson (Wife), Michael Pickering (Simeon), Harriet Samuel-Gray (Wife), Carl Spencer (Brother), Joshua Steel (Brother), Jack Wilcox (Brother), Blythe Jandoo (s/w Wife), Hannah Taylor (s/w Wife) July 17, 2019; London Jason coming back to the show as Pharaoh this time!

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businessweekme · 6 years

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Nazi Threat Stalks Bucolic Swedish Political Fest

Sweden’s annual celebration of democracy (and lobbying) in the idyllic medieval town of Visby was under siege last week.

Almedalen week, a gathering of politicians, executives, lobbyist, activists and a sea of media, has become a growing target of far-right extremists, who demonstrated, disrupted speeches and attacked people in the cobblestoned alleys of the old Hanseatic town on the island of Gotland. Complaints to the police more than doubled this year, with charges of assaults, hate speech and agitation against ethnic groups, according to the TT news agency.

Maria Halkiewicz, a representative of the Sweden-Israel Friendship Association, was a front-row witness to an assault by the Nordic Resistance Movement, a neo-Nazi group. Her friend, Kicki, was brought to the ground as she tried to stop the NMR from raising a banner in front of their tent. “They dragged her back and forth on the ground as she was lying on her back,” she said.

While the police was quick to intervene, the street violence and increasingly visible presence shows an emboldened far-right at a time of rising global authoritarianism. Sweden is facing an election in September, with some polls showing that the Sweden Democrats, an anti-immigration party with neo-Nazi roots, could emerge as the biggest. Voters have flocked to the group after Sweden became a haven for refugees during the recent migrant crisis.

The violence and rise of the Sweden Democrats has largely high-jacked the election debate. Leaders of the traditional parties focused large parts of their speeches during the week on the perils facing democracy and how to beat back the Sweden Democrats instead of the pocketbook issues usually reserved for campaigning.

Read more on Swedish election here: An Icon of Scandinavian Social Democracy Eyes a Historic Slump Opposition Leader Says Sweden Must Brace for Political Turmoil With More Money Than It Spends, Even Sweden Feels Europe’s Pain

Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said he was “so angry” because forces are trying to “use democracy to destroy democracy.”

“Our democracy is under attack from rising hatred and extremism,” Lofven said on Thursday. The premier’s party, the Social Democrats, is heading for their worst election ever, losing support to the Sweden Democrats. It’s also struggling to explain a worsening situation with long waiting lines in the health care system.

‘Traitor’

Annie Loof, leader of the Center Party, was briefly interrupted by NMR agitators with shouts of “traitor” when she spoke Wednesday about a recent fire-bomb attack on the Jewish parish house in Gothenburg.

The established parties are now looking at cracking down on some of the democratic freedoms that allow groups such as NMR to gather and agitate. The Moderates, the biggest party in the opposition Alliance bloc, wants to look at criminalizing active participation in organizations that commit violent crimes or make serious threats. The government last week started a review on whether to make racist symbols illegal.

The Sweden Democrats, which has spent the past two decades scrubbing itself of its racist past and expelled many fringe members, condemned the violence and disruption of the past week. Party leader Jimmie Akesson said violence has no place as a means of achieving political goals. “Then you should be in prison!” he said.

But on its website, the NMR declared its actions during the week by “hundreds” of its members as a “victory” for national socialism. It had received permits to demonstrate.

Checks and Balances

The rise of authoritarian forces is spurring calls for deeper look at the checks and balances of the political system. The largest Swedish morning daily, Dagens Nyheter, in an editorial on Sunday called for constitutional review to curb the power of parliament and institute a constitutional court as a check on the legislature.

“The more barriers against authoritarian forces the better,” the newspaper, which calls itself independently liberal, wrote. “Defense of democracy can’t become a race against the clock.”

These types of changes have also been backed by the Moderates. Party secretary Gunnar Strommer in June warned that Sweden shouldn’t think itself immune to the illiberal changes sweeping over countries such as Hungary and Poland. The move from being a democracy to becoming dictatorship could in reality be over in just four months. “It only takes a parliamentary decision in May, an election and a parliamentary decision in October,” he said.

The Sweden Democrats said that the establishment is overreacting to the swift changes in the political landscape.

“Hypothetically parliament could dissolve itself and the rest of the democracy with two decisions,” said Oscar Sjostedt, the party’s spokesman on economic policy, in an interview last week. “But why? There are no parties even with a close chance of getting in to parliament who would want that.”

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