PHILLY OPERA FANATIC New City, Same Website 2009-09-15T19:59:49Z WordPress http://nycoperafanatic.com/blog/feed/atom/ NYCOF http://www.nycoperafanatic.com <![CDATA[Moffo’s Carmen]]> http://nycoperafanatic.com/blog/?p=3186 2009-09-15T19:59:49Z 2009-09-15T19:29:04Z Bizet_CoverGreetings.  The Carmen of ultimax Philly girl Anna Moffo (sorry Joyce) is available on CD, albeit not for the first time. It’s been re-packaged by Sony. I got mine for $15.99 at the local FYE (current resident at the site once occupied by the much-lamented Tower Records). Some of you will claim I paid too much, but anything Moffo is a guilty pleasure of mine. And, since it’s the only guilty pleasure I allow myself these days, I am wallowing in it.  Special mention goes to fellow Texan Helen Donath for her clean teen Sophie … er, Micaela, the perfect foil for Moffo’s filthy Carmen. Phil-theeeeeeee. Like a cheesesteak.

p.s. It is a little odd, however, that the Zuniga of Jose Van Dam is prominently placed on the cd cover.

]]> 0 NYCOF http://www.nycoperafanatic.com <![CDATA[Memory of labor day past]]> http://nycoperafanatic.com/blog/?p=3178 2009-09-07T17:21:21Z 2009-09-07T17:13:59Z IMG00011 Katia Ricciarelli sings a belabored Memory from Cats, in English, I think.

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My cat, at least, was not amused.

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