Playing favorites October 19, 2007
Posted by Jeff in Giuseppe Verdi, Italian, Opera, Régine Crespin, Theater.add a comment
Q: What’s your favorite work by Puccini?
A: La Boheme.
Q: What’s your favorite work by Offenbach?
A: Tales of Hoffman.
Q: What’s your favorite work by Wagner?
A: Meistersinger.
Q: What’s your favorite work by Sondheim?
A: Sunday In The Park With George.
Q: What’s your favorite work by Verdi?
Régine Crespin, 1927-2007 July 6, 2007
Posted by Jeff in French, In memoriam, Jacques Offenbach, Opera, Régine Crespin, Theater.add a comment
Régine Crespin in one of her signature roles, the entrance aria of the title character in Jacques Offenbach’s La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein.
“Ah, que j’aime les militaires!” March 23, 2007
Posted by Jeff in French, Jacques Offenbach, Opera, Régine Crespin, Theater.add a comment
Régine Crespin, arguably the greatest French soprano since World War II, in one of her signature roles, the entrance aria of the title character in Jacques Offenbach’s La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein.
The Rosenkavalier trio November 24, 2006
Posted by Jeff in German, Opera, Régine Crespin, Theater.3 comments
From Charlie Handelman’s podcast site, a collection of twelve renditions of the Act III trio from Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, featuring …
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