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Posted by Sick Rose on 2023-November-6 12:06:13, Monday
In reply to Oh, just one more thing..... posted by Django on 2023-November-5 20:46:31, Sunday

Thanks for the lovely comments.

Just one small correction -- I do distinctly recall my daring any music lover to sit dry-eyed through a rendition by a great soprano of a great aria in a great opera, but I pointed to Renata Tebaldi as Desdemona in the opening of the fourth act on the Karajan recording of Otello with del Monaco in the title role.

I have to confess I've never been a big Puccini fan and don't know Tosca that well ; maybe I couldn't get over Joseph Kerman labeling it that "shabby little shocker" in his Opera as Drama, one of the most provocative books on the subject ever written, even if you want to throw it across the room at times. One has to admit the guy had courage -- dissing Tosca and Rosenkavalier, two of the great pillars of the standard repertoire, takes balls. Richard Taruskin took him to task -- so how do you explain the enduring popularity of the two works? They were colleagues and friendly rivals in the music department at Berkeley; both had the rare gift of being able to write compellingly about music.

SR
Sick Rose

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