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Les Frivolités Parisiennes - Maurice Yvain: Yes! (2024)

Posted By: delpotro
Les Frivolités Parisiennes - Maurice Yvain: Yes! (2024)

Les Frivolités Parisiennes - Maurice Yvain: Yes! (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 442 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 218 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:34:36
Classical, Operetta | Label: Alpha Classics

Maurice Yvain’s operettas were immensely successful in the 1920s. The fantasy of the ‘swing’ music, the catchy songs and the perfectly oiled rhythms were all the rage in the Paris of the Roaring Twenties. But the success of these comedies, with their caustic humour, also owed much to the fabulous texts by Albert Willemetz, considered as one of the fathers of modern operetta in the twentieth century. Yvain and Willemetz’s numbers were hummed in the streets and charmed all who hear them – and still do, even a century later! Les Frivolités Parisiennes set out to revive this music, which is still as young as ever. Yes! was premiered at the Théâtre des Capucines on 26 January 1928 and was an immediate hit: this story of a complicated marriage, moving between Le Touquet and London, was to remain on the bill for years to come. The version presented here by Les Frivolités Parisiennes is as close as possible to the spirit of the work’s premiere, and includes all available musical material. With the exceptional participation of Clément Rochefort as narrator.

Diana Damrau - Forever: Unforgettable Songs From Vienna, Broadway And Hollywood (2013)

Posted By: tirexiss
Diana Damrau - Forever: Unforgettable Songs From Vienna, Broadway And Hollywood (2013)

Diana Damrau - Forever: Unforgettable Songs From Vienna, Broadway And Hollywood (2013)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:17:09 | 410 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Erato | Catalog: 5099960266

Even though she is a celebrated operatic star with many brilliant coloratura roles in her repertoire, Diana Damrau is also a versatile performer in many other styles of vocal music, including concert arias, art songs, pop standards, and songs from musicals and movies. Because she embraces such a wide range of material with affection and technical ease, she is able to move gracefully between the worlds of Viennese operetta, Broadway show tunes, and music from Disney films, with only the slightest indications from her well-supported vocal production and crisp diction that she is much better known for her performances of Mozart, Donizetti, Verdi, and Strauss.

VA - Forbidden But Not Forgotten: Forbidden Music During the Third Reich (2015)

Posted By: Rtax
VA - Forbidden But Not Forgotten: Forbidden Music During the Third Reich (2015)

VA - Forbidden But Not Forgotten: Forbidden Music During the Third Reich (2015)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 2.1 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1.4 GB
10:00:21 | Classical, Music Hall, Musical, Operetta, Opera, Modern | Label: Documents

National Socialism had devised its own notion of the value of German art and culture. This was ruthlessly put into practice when the Nazis took over power in 1933. The more than 175 "degenerate" recorded musical items in this extraordinary 10-CD box set, 'Forbidden But Not Forgotten', relate to the shocking consequences due to that "cleansing". The burning of the Reichstag (7th April) provided the pretext for the prosecution of all who held other political opinions, for the burning of books (10th May) whose authors were on the index of disfavoured and banned writers, for the law that amended entry to the civil service (7th April) that excluded all non-Aryans and led to wholesale dismissals of Jews, especially in orchestras, the administration, among singers, conductors and instrumentalists. By means of the exhibitions "Degenerate Art" (Munich, 1937) and "Degenerate Music" (Düsseldorf, 1938) art and artists who were now to have no place in Nazi Germany were pilloried.

Anton Paulik, Symphonie-Orchester Kurt Graunke - Johann Strauss: Wiener blut (2004/1971)

Posted By: Vilboa
Anton Paulik, Symphonie-Orchester Kurt Graunke - Johann Strauss: Wiener blut (2004/1971)

Anton Paulik, Symphonie-Orchester Kurt Graunke - Johann Strauss: Wiener blut (2004/1971)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Deutsch (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.34 Gb (DVD9) | 94 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub.: Deutsch, English

In one of Johann Strauss' waltzes, a dream operetta couple of the 70s returns: Ingeborg Hallstein and Rene Kollo. Wiener Blut, filmed in 1971, is a thoroughly Viennese production whose strengths guarantee unadulterated operetta enjoyment: Beautiful voices, natural acting, more committed to the film than the opera stage and a cast of operetta stars even in supporting roles: Among others, Dagmar Koller, Ferry Gruber and the unforgettable Viennese original Fritz Muliar can be seen and heard.

Andrew Davis, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Renee Fleming - Lehar: The Merry Widow (2015) [Blu-Ray]

Posted By: Vilboa
Andrew Davis, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Renee Fleming - Lehar: The Merry Widow (2015) [Blu-Ray]

Andrew Davis, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Renée Fleming - Lehár: The Merry Widow (2015) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 138 min | 38,3 Gb
Audio1: English / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 24-bit
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BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1280x720 / 2735 kbps / 29,97 fps | 138 min | 6,34 Gb
Audio: English | PCM / 2ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits / DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | DECCA | Sub: English, French, German

The great Renée Fleming stars as the beguiling femme fatale who captivates all Paris in Lehár’s enchanting operetta, seen in a new staging by Broadway virtuoso director and choreographer Susan Stroman (The Producers, Oklahoma!, Contact). Stroman and her design team of Julian Crouch (Satyagraha, The Enchanted Island) and costume designer William Ivey Long (Cinderella, Grey Gardens, Hairspray) have created an art-nouveau setting that climaxes with singing and dancing grisettes at the legendary Maxim’s. Nathan Gunn co-stars as Danilo and Kelli O’Hara is Valencienne. Sir Andrew Davis conducts.

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Richard Bonynge - Kálmán: Die Herzogin von Chicago (1999)

Posted By: tirexiss
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Richard Bonynge - Kálmán: Die Herzogin von Chicago (1999)

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Richard Bonynge - Kálmán: Die Herzogin von Chicago (1999)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 156:46 | 769 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 466 057-2

This is an excellent spoof/satire of all things American with a side swipe at impoverished European royalty and the operetta genre to boot. Deborah Riedel is absolutely magnificent both in her acting and her singing. Her intentional horribly bad American accent in German is absolutely hilarious and is exactly the way so many Americans speak German although never so completely and swiftly. Yet when she sings, her German, of course, is impeccable and unaccented for, after all, she is an opera singer and will go only so far to dumb down.

Markus Poschner, Orchestre National de France - Offenbach: Maître Péronilla (2020)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Markus Poschner, Orchestre National de France - Offenbach: Maître Péronilla (2020)

Markus Poschner, Orchestre National de France - Offenbach: Maître Péronilla (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 518 Mb | Total time: 44:06+56:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Bru Zane ‎| BZ1039 | Recorded: 2019

There is more Spain in Offenbach’s brain than in Spain itself’, said a journalist entranced by Maître Péronilla. Understandably so, given the charm and humour of this operetta in which no fewer than twenty-two characters are kept busy unravelling a preposterously complicated love story. And the libretto is all the better for having been penned by the composer himself.

Ernst Theis - Johann Strauss: Der Carneval in Rom (2011)

Posted By: tirexiss
Ernst Theis - Johann Strauss: Der Carneval in Rom (2011)

Ernst Theis - Johann Strauss: Der Carneval in Rom (2011)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:35:30 | 476 MB
Genre: Classical, Operetta | Label: CPO | Catalog: 7774052

Johann Strauss Junior’s second operetta, Der Carneval in Rom, premiered in 1873 only one year before Die Fledermaus, and while the music is enjoyable enough, with several nice tunes, there is little in the score to presage the gorilla blockbuster soon to come. For one thing, Strauss wrote the music in the more romantic style of light opera because the work was originally scheduled to be mounted at the Vienna court opera, a place of more serious mien than the Theater an der Wien, then the home of the comic-oriented Viennese operetta.