Yesterday evening I was at the last performance, I think that this is often the best night to go, by that time the singers have settled well into the...
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Kay
kay3914
May 4, 2005 5:04 pm
I posted a new photo in the Ballo folder, from the New York Times. In the May 4 Times, critic Anthony Tommasini reviews the London Ballo and writes, "Four...
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canterbella
May 4, 2005 10:20 pm
There is now a review of the Cg Ballo on Opera Click http://tinyurl.com/brtcy also with some pictures which may be better qualiry copies of the ones we have...
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Christine
christine_at
May 4, 2005 11:30 pm
Thanks to Canterbella and Kay for the nice fotos and reviews! I thought: When Danilo can upload these fotos, we might too, and therefore I have added the 6...
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Dolores M. Allen
culik2003
May 5, 2005 8:54 pm
I would assume that Tommasini would know better. At least he acknowledged Marcelo's performance in a positive manner. What Utopian ideal has he set for...
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Kay
kay3914
May 5, 2005 10:38 pm
Dolores wrote: "I would assume that Tommasini would know better." As do many of us. Tommasini's gaffe is the subject of some derision on the internet opera...
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Olga
operagirl13
May 5, 2005 11:23 pm
Hi Kay, Dolores and all fans, I wrote to Mr. Tommasini in the year of 2000 after I saw Marcelo in La Traviata for the first time. We have exchanged several...
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angelagheorghiu2002
angelagheorg...
May 6, 2005 2:29 pm
Hallo everybody, bad news!Marcelo has cancelled the Munich concert on 11.5.2005 at Gasteig,as I read on the homepage of Gasteig.We are very sad,of course also...
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Christine
christine_at
May 6, 2005 3:38 pm
Hi Sabine, yes, I have got my money back, but am very sad because the concert was scheduled on my birthday and I was planning with my Munich friend to have a...
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canterbella
May 7, 2005 2:16 pm
... Is your "name day" the same as your birthday? We do not have this concept in England. I think listening to "Romeo et Juliette" will be a very nice way to ...
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canterbella
May 8, 2005 10:58 am
... When I wrote the above I had not looked at the group calendar where I see that there are two performances in Munich in July (I had thought you were just...
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Christine
christine_at
May 9, 2005 9:17 pm
Hi Miriam, I also have seen your last mail, but I want to make it clear: On the 11th of May should have been a concert in Munich, which is cancelled now and...
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Christine
christine_at
May 9, 2005 10:26 pm
Hi friends, there is a fine new review for ballo (with fotos) on: http://www.operajaponica.org/reports/londonletter.htm I have added the new foto to 'Ballo...
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Kay
kay3914
May 16, 2005 7:39 pm
The June Opera News magazine has quite a good review of Marcelo's La Boheme DVD, with a photograph of the cover. Calling it a "splendid performance," the...
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Kay
kay3914
May 17, 2005 4:56 pm
Reminder that Marcelo's ROH Ballo will be on the internet this Saturday, May 21. From Operacast.com: GMT 1730/EDT 1:30PM BBC RADIO 3 UNITED KINGDOM 44.1K G2...
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Kay
kay3914
May 18, 2005 3:30 am
I added four stagedoor photos to the Ballo folder. I'm sorry if you received my ROH broadcast message twice. It did not appear to go through the first time. I...
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Christine
christine_at
May 18, 2005 11:05 am
Hi everyone, we are so lucky in Vienna! During July and August, when most of the theatres and the opera is closed, we have a filmevent (openair on the...
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liricannie
May 19, 2005 12:53 pm
I am a new member.....can you tell me when and where this was released ..where can one get a copy? ANNIE...
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Kay
kay3914
May 23, 2005 12:18 am
Hello, Annie, and welcome to the group! The Lucia CD from Tokyo, with Devia, was released several months ago in Japan but as far as I know it is not yet...
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Kay
kay3914
May 23, 2005 12:40 am
I hope some of you were able to hear Marcelo's Ballo on BBC 3 yesterday. Didn't he sound fabulous? He seems to be having such a good time in the scene at...
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canterbella
May 23, 2005 8:20 pm
Yesterday evening I got back home after being away most of the past week (in Florence for the opera) and found the June issue of Opera magazine waiting, with a...
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Kay
kay3914
May 23, 2005 8:36 pm
There is a new photo in the CDs and DVDs folder of a Concert DVD with Marcelo and Devia! Is this a commercial DVD? Does anyone know where it is available? Any...
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Kay
kay3914
May 24, 2005 3:53 am
Many thanks to the member of the group who provided the beautiful DVD photo and this information: (Doesn't it look wonderful? I hope we can get it in the...
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Christine
christine_at
May 26, 2005 3:30 pm
Hi, I didn't get the broadcast of the ballo in London until now, but hope I will get it very soon. But I am not sorry that I have missed the broadcast, because...
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canterbella
May 26, 2005 5:33 pm
... A Swiss friend of mine was also at that performance, she did not know Marcelo before but told me she liked him very much. Also he gave her two kisses...
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Christine
christine_at
May 26, 2005 6:18 pm
Hi Canterbella, no, I am sorry, I wanted to be in Zürich for the performance on 26th, in which Nucci will sing, but Marcelo will not sing that day and...
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Christine
christine_at
May 26, 2005 9:34 pm
Hello, I am sorry that I wrote Marcelo will not sing the performance on 26th in Zürich, it is the performance of 28th which he will not sing. Christine ...
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Christine
christine_at
May 27, 2005 11:28 am
Hi, operaclick has a review of the ballo in Zürich, it is a song of praise for Marcelo and rightly so: http://www.operaclick.com/pagpn/vrec.php?id=618 I like...
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canterbella
May 27, 2005 1:02 pm
... That is the one I would have gone for if I had been going at all, so it is just as well I decided against it. Canterbella...
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canterbella
May 27, 2005 7:01 pm
At last I managed to finish the film which also pictures of Marcelo at the stage door on 30th April. There was such a crowd that night, and everyone including...
