Comments on: Filatura – A Reader’s Response http://medicine-opera.com/2008/06/filatura-a-readers-response/ Comments and reviews of opera, music, and medicine Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sylvia Burrage http://medicine-opera.com/2008/06/filatura-a-readers-response/#comment-44 Sylvia Burrage Thu, 28 May 2009 15:33:08 +0000 http://nkurtzman.wordpress.com/?p=203#comment-44 "When I listen to Schipa for example I am impressed with the subtly of delivery and beautiful line he produces, but after a while I am ready to go to sleep. The same for Kraus." I too find Schipa lovely but boring....But Kraus?? My Kraus apparently was all too early or too late. Until I got a live 1971 Favorita. I can't get enough of that first aria....I play it over and over. For GDS I've gone back to '54 and he still sounds like steel wool to me. Operafilly “When I listen to Schipa for example I
am impressed with the subtly of delivery and beautiful line he produces, but after a while I am ready to go to sleep. The same for Kraus.”

I too find Schipa lovely but boring….But Kraus?? My Kraus apparently was all too early or too late. Until I got a live 1971 Favorita. I can’t get enough of that first aria….I play it over and over.

For GDS I’ve gone back to ’54 and he still sounds like steel wool to me.

Operafilly

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