[squash54]

Originally Posted by vikulenka

Some even walk on all fours Oh, wait, that' squash's pets!

P.S. Squash, I went to see Norma last night and was let down. Norma wasn't Norma.... Rather, title characher wasn't Maria Guleghina, who was out ill. It was another singer (Mariana Mescheriakova) who neither of us liked. Her voice was very strained (although perhaps she got more warned up in the second half). Apparently, neither did the rest of the audience judging by applause. Star of the cast was Dolora Zajick.

Bummer!! Very difficult role at the best of times, let alone as a last minute stand-in before, reputedly, one of the most discerning audiences going around.
Actually, there is a recording of Maria singing the aria Cast Diva on Sparks/MM which is surprisingly good given the reservations I expressed about the suitability of her voice for the role in another post. However, the definitive version, imho, is that by Joan Sutherland with Callas a close second (also both on Sparks).

P.S. You wouldn't want the labrador or, especially, the cat to hear you referring to them as 'pets'

Edit: Actually, the version I had in mind was by Angela Georghui, rather than Maria Guleghina - I don't have a recording of her singing this aria (but I do have, in addition to Georghui, Sutherland and Callas, versions by Fleming, Caballe, Bartoli, Netrebko and Joshua Bell - on violin, of course )

[vikulenka]

Originally Posted by squash54

Bummer!! Very difficult role at the best of times, let alone as a last minute stand-in before, reputedly, one of the most discerning audiences going around.
Actually, there is a recording of Maria singing the aria Cast Diva on Sparks/MM which is surprisingly good given the reservations I expressed about the suitability of her voice for the role in another post. However, the definitive version, imho, is that by Joan Sutherland with Callas a close second (also both on Sparks).

P.S. You wouldn't want the labrador or, especially, the cat to hear you referring to them as 'pets'

Edit: Actually, the version I had in mind was by Angela Georghui, rather than Maria Guleghina - I don't have a recording of her singing this aria (but I do have, in addition to Guleghina,Sutherland and Callas, versions by Fleming, Caballe, Bartoli, Netrebko and Joshua Bell - on violin, of course )

Squash, that was a great post... till you got to Joshua Bell

[squash54]

Originally Posted by vikulenka

Squash, that was a great post... till you got to Joshua Bell

Let's just call it the pets' revenge

You're lucky I didn't add the version by Nana Mouskouri - talk about music giving off a bad smell

[solaris]

Originally Posted by squash54

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Let's just call it the pets' revenge

You're lucky I didn't add the version by Nana Mouskouri - talk about music giving off a bad smell

Only love can make a memory
Only love can make a moment last

[vikulenka]

Originally Posted by solaris

Only love can make a memory
Only love can make a moment last

Perhaps this conversation belongs better in the Katie Price thread..... but who is Nana Mouskouri?

[Hirs Ute]

Originally Posted by vikulenka

Perhaps this conversation belongs better in the Katie Price thread..... but who is Nana Mouskouri?

Greek lady, big glasses warbled in a funny way, big in the UK in the Seventies no doubt English people thought buying one of her LP's would re-create that holiday that starting to become the norm then.

[solaris]

Originally Posted by vikulenka

Perhaps this conversation belongs better in the Katie Price thread..... but who is Nana Mouskouri?

Princess, the answer to my rather cryptic post, you'll find in the attachment and in a PM

[squash54]

Originally Posted by vikulenka

Perhaps this conversation belongs better in the Katie Price thread..... but who is Nana Mouskouri?

I wouldn't ask this question going through immigration on your next holiday to Greece, if I were you

[vikulenka]

My music collection is a bottomless pit of stuff I have no idea I have and where it came from

Just found "Very Best of Nana Moskouri"!

Squash, I am reconsidering my trip to Greece as we speak....

P.S. Thank you, Dreamy

[vikulenka]

Originally Posted by solaris

Princess, the answer to my rather cryptic post, you'll find in the attachment and in a PM

Dreamy, your post wasn't cryptic at all I found the answer to it in my music library. Now what I'd like to have an answer to is - which of my friends did I get it from!!?!?!?