Five Favorite Classical vocals

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  • Almost anything from Jerry Springer, the Opera. Brilliant. Especially where a full opera chorus sings arpeggios of Beelzebub: He's a cunt! He's a cunt! He's a cunty cunty cunty cunty cunty cunty cunty cunt! I may have left out a few cunties.
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One of the theater groups here in Chicago (the gay one of course) is having the Chicago premiere of Jerry Springer the Opera. I can't wait! Jerry and Steve may actually how up! I've seen some of the previews on the web and it looks great! I just hope our first production will live up to the London production! (Not likely but one can hope!)

Well, how is this for irony... When I was in college we sang Die Meistersinger and The Chichester Psalms on the same program.

My first and only Chichester Psalms performance was with the New York Philharmonic just after Bernstein's death. He was supposed to visit IU with the Phil when he died. The Dean of the school of music (who had longtime links to Bernstein - see Joan Peysers un-authorized biography for the full scandal) immediately called the Philharmonic and arranged to have the same program that they played in memory of Bernstein in NYC repeated in Bloomington. Slatkin conducted. We learned the piece in ~5 days. When we got to dress rehearsal 30 minutes before the program, the orchestra was running late and we only got a piano rehearsal with Slatkin. Never heard the full orchestra until live performance. Those drums nearly gave us a heart attack! La! (BOOM!) Ma! (BOOM!) LaMa! (BOOM!) We made it through though and it was one of the more memorable moments of my college career.
 

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One of the theater groups here in Chicago (the gay one of course) is having the Chicago premiere of Jerry Springer the Opera. I can't wait! Jerry and Steve may actually how up! I've seen some of the previews on the web and it looks great! I just hope our first production will live up to the London production! (Not likely but one can hope!)
Great news that JSTO will finally get an American airing. I think fundy agitation finally killed the Broadway production.

My impression is that the score places huge demands on the performers. It really is an opera, not a musical. Only two characters have speaking roles; the rest is sung or recitative. I hope the gay theatre group has access to enough operatic talent. The London production cast brilliant voices and revelled in the fact that many didn't have stage-physiques or movie-star looks. The guy who played Duane/God was morbidly obese, for example.

It's worth ordering the London soundtrack from amazon.co.uk.
 

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A friend recently "gifted" me (from iTunes) the Maria Callas recording of Delilah's aria, "Mon coeur s'ourvre á ta voix." It is gorgeous, and I had to reload my iPod to get it on my current playlist.

Seemed worthy of reviving this thread just to recommend it.