Favorite Beethoven Opera

bwv 1080 · June 22, 2007, 11:16:48 AM

Your favorite Beethoven Opera?

71 dB · June 22, 2007, 11:26:40 AM

Enough with the silly polls already!

71 dB · June 22, 2007, 12:39:15 PM

Quote from: Mark on June 22, 2007, 12:16:47 PM
Sorry. I'm in a mischievious mood.

Frankly I am tired of how people laugh at my Elgar stuff. Now that M forever is back I feel even less enthusiastic of being around. People can have their Mahler and Bruckner. I have my Elgar! I'll be alone but at least I have it my way!

Mark · June 22, 2007, 01:15:38 PM

Quote from: 71 dB on June 22, 2007, 12:39:15 PM
Frankly I am tired of how people laugh at my Elgar stuff. Now that M forever is back I feel even less enthusiastic of being around. People can have their Mahler and Bruckner. I have my Elgar! I'll be alone but at least I have it my way!

Post removed. I'm sorry.

prémont · June 22, 2007, 02:09:10 PM

Favorite Beethoven opera? Leonore of course.

Gurn Blanston · June 22, 2007, 04:06:06 PM

Quote from: premont on June 22, 2007, 02:09:10 PM
Favorite Beethoven opera? Leonore of course.

Me too. Have both, prefer the earlier one.

mahlertitan · June 22, 2007, 11:45:38 PM

Vote for you favorite leader:
1) Hitler
2) Mussolini

is it me or the latest threads are becoming increasingly Fascist?

Que · June 22, 2007, 11:50:41 PM

Quote from: MahlerTitan on June 22, 2007, 11:45:38 PM
Vote for you favorite leader:
1) Hitler
2) Mussolini

is it me or the latest threads are becoming increasingly Fascist?

Silly threads and polls is one thing, being provocative just to provoke is another.

Q

knight66 · June 23, 2007, 01:48:39 AM

Brilliant have just brought out a boxed set at bargain price containing Fidelio and Leonore. The tiny advert I saw gave no performer details.

Mike

Que · June 23, 2007, 01:59:09 AM

Quote from: knight on June 23, 2007, 01:48:39 AM
Brilliant have just brought out a boxed set at bargain price containing Fidelio and Leonore. The tiny advert I saw gave no performer details.

Mike

Mike, from their Dutch home site.

Leonore
Don Fernando: Herman Christian Polster, bass
Don Pizarro: Theo Adam, bass
Florestan: Richard Cassilly, tenor
Leonore: Edda Moser, soprano
Rocco: Karl Ridderbusch, bass
Marzelline: Helen Donath, soprano
Jaquino: Eberhard Büchner, tenor
1-rst Prisoner: Reiner Goldberg, tenor
2-nd Prisoner: Siegfried Lorenz, baritone
Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, Herbert Blomstedt

Fidelio
Leonore: Gabriele Schnaut, soprano
Marzelline: Ruth Ziesak, soprano
Florestan: Josef Protschka, tenor
Jaquino: Uwe Heilmann, tenor
Don Fernando: Tom Krause, baritone
Don Pizarro: Hartmut Welker, baritone
Rocco: Kurt Rydl, bass
Prisoner: Falk Struckmann
Konzertvereniging Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Christoph von Dohnanyi

knight66 · June 23, 2007, 02:02:37 AM

Q, Thanks....looks well worth a risk. I have never heard the first version of the opera, it is bound to be fascinating to grasp the differences.

Mike

PSmith08 · June 23, 2007, 02:19:22 AM

Goll-dang. That Brilliant set looks pretty good. I admit that Fidelio is one that I've never heard, but it looks like that will probably change soon(ish).

71 dB · June 23, 2007, 02:34:53 AM

Quote from: Mark on June 22, 2007, 01:15:38 PM
Post removed. I'm sorry.

It's not your fault in any way Mark. You are one of the friendliest persons around here.

mahlertitan · June 23, 2007, 07:58:49 AM

Quote from: Que on June 22, 2007, 11:50:41 PM
Silly threads and polls is one thing, being provocative just to provoke is another.

Q

looks like it worked.

marvinbrown · June 23, 2007, 08:00:29 AM

Somehow Beethoven and Opera don't seem to go hand in hand.

marvin

Gurn Blanston · June 23, 2007, 10:34:30 AM

Quote from: Que on June 23, 2007, 01:59:09 AM
Mike, from their Dutch home site.

Leonore
Don Fernando: Herman Christian Polster, bass
Don Pizarro: Theo Adam, bass
Florestan: Richard Cassilly, tenor
Leonore: Edda Moser, soprano
Rocco: Karl Ridderbusch, bass
Marzelline: Helen Donath, soprano
Jaquino: Eberhard Büchner, tenor
1-rst Prisoner: Reiner Goldberg, tenor
2-nd Prisoner: Siegfried Lorenz, baritone
Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, Herbert Blomstedt

Fidelio
Leonore: Gabriele Schnaut, soprano
Marzelline: Ruth Ziesak, soprano
Florestan: Josef Protschka, tenor
Jaquino: Uwe Heilmann, tenor
Don Fernando: Tom Krause, baritone
Don Pizarro: Hartmut Welker, baritone
Rocco: Kurt Rydl, bass
Prisoner: Falk Struckmann
Konzertvereniging Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Christoph von Dohnanyi

I have that Leonore in its original release on Berlin Classics, and it is very enjoyable indeed. I haven't heard the Fidelio from this one yet though. My guess would be that they are a great pairing, and at the Brilliant price, probably less $$ than what I paid for the Leonore alone... $:-\$

Wendell_E · June 23, 2007, 01:23:03 PM

I'm, like, totally offended that this poll has been changed so that my "Enough with the silly polls already" vote now registers as "[That Hack] Elgar's operas rule"

Seriously, now that I know polls can be changed like that, I won't be voting in another one here. This is worse than Florida.

knight66 · June 23, 2007, 01:26:47 PM

Yes, it looks like serious rigging. We need a transferable vote if the rules are being changed after some voting has taken place. Clearly the originator of this thread is a born politician.

Mike

Gabriel · June 23, 2007, 01:56:21 PM

Hello to all... I'm back after a long absence (and hello to the ones I haven't talked - or written - to).

Well, in fact, after the subject, I expected a discussion on the three versions of the opera (Leonore 1805, Leonore 1806 and Fidelio), which have all been recorded.

As Gurn (with whom I tend to agree on these subjects), I prefer the 1805 version.

Gurn Blanston · June 23, 2007, 01:58:58 PM

GABRIEL!!

Welcome back amigo! Don't leave us like that for so long, you rascal!

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