Joyce DiDonato on the last scene of the Wernicke production of Der Rosenkavalier: Octavian and Sophie lie on the floor holding their silver rose in their hands. »After the final duet, the ›Mohammad‹ takes the silver rose from the two new young lovers and replaces it with a single red rose. It kills me, because […]
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Never before I had been to Schwetzingen. I’ve played soccer matches in about every village around Schwetzingen but somehow I never made the 20 km from my home town to that beautiful castle and park. Otto von Bismarck was an honorary citizen of Schwetzingen. And now the great Joyce DiDonato honored the town with a […]
Today it’s buildings and an amazing woman: Photos of churches, gallery, stations, castello, theater, statues, and Joyce DiDonato in Milano last October. The full photo album is available here. here or via the not-sooo-fancy slide show below. [vodpod id=Groupvideo.11405870&w=425&h=350&fv=host%3Dpicasaweb.google.com%26hl%3Dde%26RGB%3D0x000000%26feed%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fpicasaweb.google.com%252Fdata%252Ffeed%252Fapi%252Fuser%252Fschratinho%252Falbumid%252F5739057492452174769%253Falt%253Drss%2526kind%253Dphoto%2526hl%253Dde] On youtube I found a recording of the Der Rosenkavalier production we went to see in […]
In German, we can use the same word for tall and great – groß. I once sat at a table with a tall priest. There wasn’t a lot of space and when he tried to get up someone said “yeah, it’s a bit uncomfortable for someone who is groß”. He answered: “I am not a […]
A break cannot be caught. Yesterday, I had a look at my rss feed reader and in the first article displayed, a question was proposed: What’s the No. 1 opera that allows a White Shirt mezzo to have their hands all over generally not just one, but two sopranos? The Giessen production of Figaro provides […]
Vibre, mon âme, chante et proclame, chante ta joie! Yet again, I had the pleasure of spending an unforgettable opera evening. When we did Otello last season I wondered what would make someone go to see a concertante performance of opera. Well, there’s at least one answer I can give now: a most ravishing Joyce […]
This afternoon I was amused by a question stated in a blog post (“Intermezzo” – what a lovely pun!): What’s the difference between Joyce DiDonato and Katherine Jenkins? Apart from obvious stuff like one can sing Una voce poco fa and one can’t, that is? After seeing the videos, this was even obvious to me… (and […]