Aretha Nessun Dorma

[lennygoran]

Gotta admit I didn't know this.

Aretha Franklin death: When singer stepped in to perform Nessun Dorma at last minute after Pavarotti got ill in Philadelphia.

Gotta admit I didn't know this. Regards, Len [dinosaur]

Aretha Franklin death: When singer stepped in to perform Nessun Dorma at last minute after Pavarotti got ill

[RebLem]

I found 3 Nessun Dormas sung by Aretha Franklin on YouTube. IMHO, this is by far the best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvJpxkinkPg

[jbuck919]

Only someone as great as Aretha Franklin could get away with this. It is, of course, completely inappropriate for a female singer.

[lennygoran]

I found 3 Nessun Dormas sung by Aretha Franklin on YouTube. IMHO, this is by far the best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvJpxkinkPg

Thanks.
I didn't know she Studied at Juilliard. "It’s obvious that the woman is talented, but did you know she studied at Juilliard? She studied classical piano while she was there, and she graduated in 1998. Before she was at Juilliard, she taught herself how to play piano." Regards, Len

http://ppcorn.com/us/aretha-franklin-15-things-1/

[lennygoran]

Only someone as great as Aretha Franklin could get away with this. It is, of course, completely inappropriate for a female singer.

You never heard of a trouser role! Regards, Len [on the run]

[jbuck919]

Only someone as great as Aretha Franklin could get away with this. It is, of course, completely inappropriate for a female singer.

You never heard of a trouser role! Regards, Len [on the run]

Do get back in touch with me the next time you hear Jonas Kaufmann sing Voi che sapete.

[lennygoran]

Do get back in touch with me the next time you hear Jonas Kaufmann sing Voi che sapete.

Well would you settle for this guy? Regards, Len

[absinthe]

Horrid. And I can't get along with women who claim themselves operatic using a microphone.

[jserraglio]

"If you want drama, go to the opera." -- Mission Impossible V: Rogue Nation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU2TU--E6OE



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw6MBgOs1jU

[lennygoran]

"If you want drama, go to the opera." -- Mission Impossible V: Rogue Nation

Wow-no ones gonna to sleep through that version! Regards, Len

[jserraglio]

Check out the Scorsese/Hitchcock short that heavily influenced it.

The Key to Reserva, a 2007 film short by Martin Scorsese (based on fragments of a film Alfred Hitchcock never made)

https://v637g.app.goo.gl/4AMtvYXJzMNYq9fj9
or
https://www.youtube.com/embed/dGDbTcmh4 ... &version=3

[lennygoran]

Check out the Scorsese/Hitchcock short that heavily influenced it.

Wow, I gotta visit Cleveland and take one of your film classes! What was the orchestra playing-was it a famous classical music piece? Regards, Len

[jserraglio]

The music is by one of my favorite composers, Bernard Herrmann and it is from the soundtrack of one of my favorite flicks. North by Northwest. I believe Herrmann himself led the MGM studio orchestra in the 1959 film, and in his hommage, Scorsese simply used snippets from that ST.

Hermann's stunning opera, Wuthering Heights

prologue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OoZ3FIN3DE



complete:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urwM_T0H0sg

[lennygoran]

Hermann's stunning opera, Wuthering Heightscomplete:

Thanks, I would certainly go to this if they ever did it in the NYC area-I was reading about its history at wiki-what if Gelb decided to finally do this work instead of the one coming up this season Marnie! Regards, Len [pipe dreaming]

Composer Nico Muhly unveils his second new opera for the Met with this gripping reimagining of Winston Graham’s novel, set in the 1950s, about a beautiful, mysterious young woman who assumes multiple identities. Director Michael Mayer and his creative team have devised a fast-moving, cinematic world for this exhilarating story of denial and deceit, which also inspired a film by Alfred Hitchcock. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard sings the enigmatic Marnie, and baritone Christopher Maltman is the man who pursues her—with disastrous results. Robert Spano conducts.

Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera

[lennygoran]

what if Gelb decided to finally do this work instead of the one coming up this season Marnie

[jserraglio]

Thanks, I didn't know about this Met commission but I like the original Hitchcock film.

[lennygoran]

Thanks, I didn't know about this Met commission but I like the original Hitchcock film.

We'll be there-hope it proves to be a wise choice-we didn't go to his Two Boys and I'm sort of regretting that now. Regards, Len