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Baba Alex

Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 2411
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Otterman Ollie wrote: |
| I don't think there was a dry eye in the house when the whole population of the train station broke into song with " Nusan Dorma" .Unique,totally unique, you all missed a magic moment akin to your team winning the cup . |
Hmm is that anything like Nessun Dorma?
One of the finest performances of the Turandot I've ever seen was at the Aspendos Opera Festival 2004. Absolutely fantastic, third only to the 2003 staging of Madame Butterfly at the the British Royal opera house. (this whispering chorus almost made me wet myself): And Antonio Pappano's superb direction of Wozzeck at the same venue a year earlier. I've never really enjoyed opera on TV, I prefer to listen to it on my scratchy old records.
Manon Lescaut is on at AKM this month if you're a Puccini fan. |
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FGT

Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 762 Location: Turkey
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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| And Izmir has Idomeneo (Mozart) on January 13th and 16th, La Traviata (Verdi) on 27th February. The Opera House is small but worth a visit. |
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Baba Alex

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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:40 am Post subject: |
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| FGT wrote: |
| And Izmir has Idomeneo (Mozart) on January 13th and 16th, La Traviata (Verdi) on 27th February. The Opera House is small but worth a visit. |
Idomeneo, definitelt one of Mozart's darker operas, although I doubt they'll be any severed head of Mohamad in this production. |
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Otterman Ollie
Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 1067 Location: South Western Turkey
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:39 am Post subject: |
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| sorry dmb,its the hashers not hash ,basically a running group . Look guys I'm not the real Mccoy of opera buffs so a lot of whats said previously went over my head,but I did enjoy what I saw and maybe one of the items fgt mentioned will be part of my social agenda this month .A live performance of any kind is rare in Izmir . |
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