opera

[goscilo]

Dear Colleagues,

Anyone not interested in opera should instantly delete this message.

I wish to alert those Slavists who may share my passion for this “ultimate” 
genre (Wagner’s Gesammtkunstwerke)?and who maybe experienced today’s filmed 
Met broadcast of Verdi's MACBETH?about a site assembled by Frank Fischer 
and housed at the University of Pittsburgh.  It provides a wealth of 
information about, and parts of performances by, Bulgarian opera singers 
that are not easily available:

 <www.ucis.pitt.edu/opera>

Apart from other audio-pleasures, the site includes extracts by the 
peerless Bulgarian bass Nikolai Ghiaurov (for many years the Met’s 
magisterial Boris Godunov) during his “salad days.”  No other bass has made 
a better vocal case for yielding to Mefistopheles’ blandishments in 
Gounod’s opera?and in Bulgarian!

Helena Goscilo 

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