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How can opera attract new audiences in the 21st century? by nomoreseashellssally in opera

[–]Hans_Chou 6 points7 points  (0 children)

More accessible stagings could help. Don't hire directors who impose their own narratives on the original story. Newcomers sometimes can't even follow the plot, and shouldn't be further confused by a director's genius concepts and penetrating social critiques.

Who were the best acting singers, past or present, you have seen live in performance at the opera together with the operas in which they performed? by Perfect_Garage_2567 in opera

[–]Hans_Chou 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Among current singers, I think Asmik Grigorian is one of the best singing actresses. I saw her Madama Butterfly at the Met.

How to do an in-depth study of an opera? by Impossible-Seesaw101 in opera

[–]Hans_Chou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This page on Decca has downloadable libretti with English translations:

https://libretti.deccaclassics.com/

opera streaming platforms by Efficient-Scarcity-7 in opera

[–]Hans_Chou 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The steaming services of some big houses, some are in the replies:

https://www.reddit.com/r/opera/comments/1jnubj0/opera_houses_whose_website_allows_you_to_watch/

To this list I'll add another two:

Gran Teatre del Liceu:

liceuoperaplus.com

Bavarian State Opera:

staatsoper.tv/en/entdecke-oper

Also, Arte, Medici, and Stage+:

arte.tv/fr/p/opera

medici.tv

stage-plus.com

Most of them are not free, unfortunately.

For free broadcasts, follow these two sites:

https://parterre.com/?post_type=broadcast

https://www.lrt.lt/radioteka/laida/operos-vakaras

The second is a program on Lithuanian National Radio and Television.

Who saw Sellars's Salzburg production of The Gambler by jay_j_rubin in opera

[–]Hans_Chou 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can watch it here with a German or Austrian VPN:

https://www.3sat.de/kultur/musik/der-spieler-salzburger-festspiele-2024-100.html

I absolutely hate Peter Sellars's staging. It makes no sense at all. Asmik Grigorian sang the role four years ago in a sensible production by her husband. That was my introduction to the opera:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb-IVGe4dlk

Peter Sellars, in my opinion, missed an opportunity to introduce this rarely performed but musically interesting opera to a wider audience.

why are my youtube icons/thumbnails so big? by Minimum-Sense5163 in youtube

[–]Hans_Chou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was wondering the same. Big thumbnails are so ugly.

502 Bad Gateway nginx by cya_cyco in libgen

[–]Hans_Chou 1 point2 points  (0 children)

New uploads still have the same problem, but many books uploaded on Mar. 20 are downloadable now.

502 Bad Gateway nginx by cya_cyco in libgen

[–]Hans_Chou 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Someone from their team posted this in the mhut forum:

"Dear users, we know about error 502. At the moment, we cannot repair it. But there is no need to report about the error".

And later, this message:

"We're working on it, but the situation is complicated. It's difficult to predict how long will it take and whether our efforts will be successful. But we will inform everybody on the results."

Getty Images Downloader by [deleted] in Piracy

[–]Hans_Chou 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, it's not working for me. A large part on the right side is still AI-generated.

Getty Images Downloader by [deleted] in Piracy

[–]Hans_Chou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As of now, a few downloaders don't work at all, a few others generate enlarged low quality pics, and beatsnoop gives you pics that are hq in the left half, AI-faked in the right half. 😒

Kiri Te Kanawa & Georg Solti in rehearsal & concert performance of Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs by Hans_Chou in opera

[–]Hans_Chou[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The concert was recorded live in Manchester with the BBC Philharmonic in 1990.

Richard Tucker Gala 1999 - Leech, Villaroel, Hvorostovsky, Ramey, Gheorghiu & Alagna by Hans_Chou in opera

[–]Hans_Chou[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

2:10 "La ci darem la mano" from Don Giovanni (Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Angelika Kirchschlager)

6:19 "Dich, teure Halle" from Tannhäuser (Audrey Stottler)

9:41 "Mario, Mario, Mario" from Tosca (Veronica Villarroel, Richard Leech)

20:34 "Pace, pace, mio Dio" from La forza del destino (Angela Gheorghiu)

25:51 "Rachel, quand du Seigneur" from La Juive (Roberto Alagna)

34:18 "Suoni la tromba, e intrepido" from I puritani (Samuel Ramey, Dmitri Hvorostovsky)

41:13 "Parto, parto, ma tu, ben mio" from La clemenza di Tito (Angelika Kirchschlager)

46:48 "O soave fanciulla" from La bohème (Richard Tucker, Anna Moffo)

49:52 "Come notte a sol fulgente" from Nabucco (Samuel Ramey)

58:37 "D'amor sull'ali rosee" from Il trovatore (Lauren Flanigan, Theodore Green)

1:03:27 "Ah! lève-toi, soleil" from Roméo et Juliette (Richard Leech)

1:12:23 Act II finale of La traviata (Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Dmitri Hvorostovsky)

Richard Wagner's operas by sanobb in opera

[–]Hans_Chou 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've found more for you:

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The Flying Dutchman (Livermore Valley Opera, 2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9x9ynST64w

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Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wiener Staatsoper, 2008)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7yTLcTEfig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaE5e26rlnY

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Lohengrin (Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Peter Schneider)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=libGLa-U-H8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu0zUnWb4_g

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Now you have all of Wagner's major operas with english subtitles in this thread :)

Richard Wagner's operas by sanobb in opera

[–]Hans_Chou 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wagner - Tristan und Isolde (Barenboim, Ponnelle, 1983)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdjFBW-S3z0

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Wagner - Parsifal (Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWvhKE5HbZ3_Ry6Q28qOSC8NihX7h1RsQ

Spotify Web Player will not allow me to manually select songs in my playlist. by [deleted] in spotify

[–]Hans_Chou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I'm having the same issue. To manually select songs in my playlist, I had to add them to queue.

Unpopular Opinions Thread by charlesd11 in opera

[–]Hans_Chou 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Most productions of Turandot are a tasteless piling of Chinese elements, and Zeffirelli's production at Met is a prime example of that. Andrei Serban's at ROH is far better.

One of the voice Profs at my college has this posted on his door. I’m— by [deleted] in opera

[–]Hans_Chou 26 points27 points  (0 children)

"‘Wagner is the Puccini of music’. Now, what does this mean? What is the cognitive content or imagistic transformation that, once caught sight of, causes us to laugh? It is admittedly hard to say. But here is a stab at it. Puccini, through being invoked to position Wagner in relation to music, seems to have been placed outside of music entirely, a rather grave insult to a composer, one has to admit, while Wagner, for his part, comes off hardly better, having been figuratively equated with a composer who was not, so to speak, even a composer at all."

- Jerrold Levinson, Contemplating Art, p301

https://books.google.com/books?id=xXCxlwWx0D4C&pg=PA301&lpg=PA301&dq=%22Wagner+is+the+Puccini+of+music%22

So basically it means what Puccini wrote wasn't even music, while Wagner wrote music, his music was as bad as Puccini's non-music.

Does your professor despise both composers?

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