La Traviata Letter Reading

Must have fallen while water skiing!

Relaunch, for lovers of the macabre

OFFENBACH: "Les oiseaux dans la charmille"

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..followed by

Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Ewa Malas-Godlewska, Olympia

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who is the only post-war singer I have ever heard succeed in achieving the extraordinary timbral effect at 0.31, in which the voice blends in an octave with the flute and the clarinet, creating a distinct timbre that is no longer voice, nor flute, nor clarinet. What a pity that today no one manages to render this effect, compromising in the result Offenbach's brilliant music.

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A little gift, for those who did not know this undisputed myth.

There is also the «Addio del passato».

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What is it? The "room" of horrors?