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personal site dedicated to advanced audio and evolved music reproduction
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Lovro von Matacic was one of the great conductors who preserved the authentic late-Romantic tradition into the late-Romantic age.
He was a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir, then studied at the Vienna Hochschule für Musik. There he studied piano, org...
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My friends, considering my heritage, frequently ask me about my suggestions regarding “Boris Godunov” and I decided to compile a little and highly opinioned (no surprised here!) “surviving guide” about this opera.
It is well-known and well-told stor...
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Porgy and Bess!The popular aria Summertime ("...and the livin' is easy...") is most often taken as a straight statement, but the fact was, the living was very, very difficult. The song is ironic! But sung out of context, you'd never know.clark...
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If you missed the webcast of the opening night of Tristan on WFMT, perhaps you can catch it on your local station sometime in the future. Fortune smiled and blessed me with two 7th row seats. I leave the commentary to John von Rhein:
http://ww...
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The 2009-10 Metropolitan Opera season has officially been announced.
Tosca - new production by Luc Bondy with Karita Mattila, Marcelo Àlvarez/Jonas Kaufmann, Juha Uusitalo/Bryn Terfel, James Levine (c).Contes d´Hoffmann - new production by Bartlett ...
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A few days ago somebody mentioned to me that Roger Waters, the former Pink Floyd man come up with an opera about French revolution. A brief research confirmed the rumors and it turned out that it was quite awhile back:
http://en.wikipedi...
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WGBH presents its 10th annual Opera Bash, a celebration of opera on television and radio.
Tuesday-Friday, Sept. 1-4, on radio
Each day at 2pm on WGBH 89.7 – Opera from the Boston Early Music Festival
The crown jewe...
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Hello, gentlemen.Has Anton Nanut a recording of Marij Kogoj's opera "Crne maske" (Black masks)?...
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After a disappointing performance of Mozart Requiem last night by BSO this morning I feel that I need something light but good. The good old Operetta would do it…
Look whose is conducting the Die Fledermaus overture and HOW!!!!...
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I was watching the YouTube recording from Braunschweigkonzert 2009 with Anna Netrebko und Dmitri Hvorostovsky perform the stage version of Onegin.
I am not a big fun of Netrebko but this Braunschweigkonzert recording is very interesting form… audio...
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I was amazed how good image quality, surround sound and some booze can combine to make for some very nice "at home opera"! I have no idea how much my brother spent on this, except it was plenty! Sound quality, per se, is far from the best, but some...
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Guys, thanks. I do not really look forward for an advice what specific brand of model to buy. I am rather trying to conceptualize what functional elements I might need and what expectations I might have for each of them. Listening you and some other ...
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I have a room in my house that I have no use and I kind of considering converting it to The Opera Room. Generally it might be consider video rooms but I have no interest to watch movies in there, which is regularly associated with video – I have a l...
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As I told you that side effect of my Video Room project turned out that I changed my mindset from hating that room and considering it as a worthless in the house to the sadden admiration of the room. No I do not watch videos in there but I just turn...
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I understand that with my desire to have 2-chanals instead of 34.6 channels for my video room I am bit off the bitten path but it is what it is. I am comfortable with what it is and as time goes by I more and more form my objective and my interest in...
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Amy turned out to be a fireplace kitten and she spends a lot of time in our opera room, cooking her feet on fire and filing the room with marvelous purring. We were planning to do major Opera Room remodeling this winter but the resent Hurricane Sandy...
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I shall have to come see it. I even liked it before!...
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The Opera Room is turning out to be a really bitch and I am very surprised how this room get transferred from a worthless place in the house to something that we really enjoy. As the new furniture and new sitting arrangement is got developed during ...
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Along with last remodeling that we performed in Opera Room the room is becoming more the most pleasant room in our house. In fact we spend now more time then in listening room. We eat there, we watch films there. Sometime we watch TV there. I sleep t...
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...is one of the greatest rooms to listen in, and even just to be in, that I have ever seen. And I haven't even been there for the latest redecoration and the opening-up of the bay windows.c...
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I need to admit that after out UK trip last month I got more sensible what Amy is striving to make the Opera Room to feel and to look. She is British and Finish offspring with British root to be very strong in her, she actually a direct descendant of...
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During the last two weeks I spend a lot of efforts to baby-proof
my two playbacks (main and in opera room). Thomas is rolling the floors like a tractor
eating everyt...
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Interesting short film on the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall
and its design...
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171102-how-do-you-design-for-the-perfect-sound
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Puccini il trittico live in lyon 1st balcony center vs. Shelter 901 through three-way horn-loaded speakers in myExperience room!Looking back through romy's earlier posts in effort to reconcile live experience last night with what I have at home!I wan...
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The MET is launching a new initiative with movie theaters across the world. This season, six of the Met's live broadcasts will be aired via satellite in selected movie theaters. The first big screen broadcast will be this Saturday - an English versio...
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The Chicago Lyric Opera http://www.lyricopera.org/ the first time since their glorious 70s begun today to broadcast their summer program via the WFMT–FM on Sunday 8PM.
http://www.wfmt.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFMT
The broadcas...
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http://www.wgbh.org/article?item_id=4093111...
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Well, the last season with grow of HD the quality of FM went very rapidly down. I wonder what change will be this year. Regardless the worsening quality of sound the program for 2008–09 season looks very exciting.
http://www.operainfo.org/?all=1
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I was listening today the Bolshoy 1948 production on LYS twice. What the beauty. As the tribute to this performance I am posting articles about the singers who did the “Boris Godunov” with Golovanov in 1948. The Articles are courtesy to writing staff...
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A few days ago somebody mentioned to me that Roger Waters, the former Pink Floyd man come up with an opera about French revolution. A brief research confirmed the rumors and it turned out that it was quite awhile back:
http://en.wikipedi...
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