08Tomorrow is Submission Sunday!
Submit your favorite opera-related posts! Please credit original authors!
Pierre Beaumarchais (1732-1799)
Beaumarchais is best-known in the opera world for the Figaro plays - Le Barbier de Séville (The Barber of Seville), Le Mariage de Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), and La Mère coupable (The Guilty Mother).
Beaumarchais led a pretty interesting life with several professions including playwright and arms dealer during the American Revolution. Wikipedia article here.
Thomas Quasthoff - W.A. Mozart - “Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo” - K. 584 (originally from Cosi fan tutte)
This aria is traditionally replaced with “Non siate ritrosi,” a patter-song. Guglielmo sings either aria in Act I, Scene III of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte.
(source - Grove Music Online)
wow…
62 followers is music to this opera lover’s ears***… I guess it’s time to start posting again!
*** that will be the first and last cheesy remark from the editor.
Watch Great Performances on PBS tomorrow, Wednesday, January 20th, at 9:00 eastern to see The Audition, a documentary following young singers as they compete in the final round of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. If you missed the HD Broadcast, this is your chance to see it again! The dvd is also available for purchase through the Met Store.
![Playbill from the first performance of Don Giovanni by W.A. Mozart in Leipzig, Germany on June 15, 1788.
[source: The Morgan Library & Museum]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwffzbrj3K1qadu49o1_500.jpg)
Playbill from the first performance of Don Giovanni by W.A. Mozart in Leipzig, Germany on June 15, 1788.
[source: The Morgan Library & Museum]
“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”
- Benjamin Britten
thank you!
Thanks to everyone who has submitted material so far! Keep the submissions coming! :)
