I was rereading the Renata Scotto chapter in John Steane's SINGERS OF THE CENTURY, VOL.2 recently, and it occurs to me that, if we don't try to push the...
I have found more about Sachs in Neunzig biography of DFD. A constant theme in his early opera career is how often he turned down roles. In 1949, he cancelled...
I am posting more on DFD and Sachs and his turning down roles: http://www.gopera.com/lieder/fidi_interview.html Q. Were there roles that you turned down? I...
Mark asks if we have any comments. Yes, one. I saw Fischer Dieskau as Barak at Munich in 1972, the only time I ever saw him in opera, and it was one of the...
Bob Rideout
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... Bob, Thanks for your interesting reply. You were fortunate to have seen DFD in opera. Living in the U.S., I never got the chance, although I did see him...
On Thomas Hampson's website, there is an interview from Opera News in which he discusses eight of his Desert Island Baritones. One of them is Fischer-Dieskau....
In a message dated 13/03/2005 06:18:21 GMT Standard Time, Markhedm@... ... I attended a performance of MACBETH at the Zurich Opera last weekend. Hampson...
Hi All, Here's something new that was just announced on the German DFD list and Monika's DFD website: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Gerald Moore Schubert:...
Very interesting! I was once told that Yehudi Menuhin, after hearing Fischer-Dieskau sing Winterreise at the Casals Festival, went backstage afterward and...
Hi folks, I received my copy of this book a week or two ago and have been thinking about how to judge it. It's a large format, almost coffee-table-size, book...
He Celia - I know you are the expert on my favorite singer (boy - do I miss him!!!). Anyway I have always wondered about his second and third marriage. Friends...
Celia and list, I am assuming this is the new book by Neunzig on DFD. I am almost finished reading the Neunzig biography in English, and I was hoping there...
Whitton in his book gives a thorough treatment of DFD's early career. He met him in 1949-1950, and was himself living in Germany as a student for several...
Lieber Mark, ich lese Ihre Beiträge immer mit sehr großem Interesse. Manchmal frage ich mich, wo Sie die Zeit dafür hernehmen. Ich möchte nur kurz auf ein...
Dear Rudolf, Mark & List, I'm happy to provide a translation of Rudolf's message: "Dear Mark, I always read your postings with great interest. Sometimes I have...
Dear Mark, I could hardly believe that DFD's lots of opportunities in the post-war Germany were simply due to a "cultural gap" reason...maybe this could have...
Dear Rudolf, Celia, and list, Thanks for the reply. Thanks, Celia, for translating. I was wondering about this date myself. On page 49 of the Neunzig...
Gaetano, No, I don't think it was simply due to one reason. Whitton does give this as a factor, and that the times were ripe for someone like him. "The right...
Hi folks, I'm sorry to have to pass on the news from the German DFD_Forum that DFD took a fall Thursday during the rehearsal for a performance in Essen....
Hello everyone, I was wondering if any of the members of this list participate in the DFD-RFS CD initiative by Rudolf Peters (german speaking discher-Dieskau...
Haven't heard about this initiative. What is it? -- Emily L. Ferguson mailto:elf@... 508-563-6822 New England landscapes, wooden boats and races, press...
They're essentially MP3 CD's with Radio Broadcasts and LP's that have not been released on CD. It is passed around among members of the german Fischer-Dieskau...
Hmm. mp3s only? I'd rather be having plain old CDs than having to use the computer to listen. Also, could you put up a link to the yahoo.de group? Thanks -- ...
OK Bring me up to speed here. My German is verrry rusty. What's a RFS? What are the copyright problems with this project? Has the deutsche F-D list discussed...
... As mentioned earlier, a MP3 CD + track lists and additional textual information... ... They will be different in the US than they are in Germany......
Hi Emily, RFS is an abbreviation of "Rundfunksammlung." Rudolf, who has compiled the collections, is an attorney, so I am confident that they meet copyright...
Celia, do you think there would be enough interest in this group to justify translating those and making them available for the English-speaking users Dietrich...
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