#Knut Skram

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Opera on YouTube, Part 2

Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1973 (Knut Skram, Ileana Cotrubas, Kiri Te Kanawa, Benjamin Luxon; conducted by John Pritchard; English subtitles)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1976 (Hermann Prey, Mirella Freni, Kiri Te Kanawa, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; conducted by Karl Böhm; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Tokyo National Theatre, 1980 (Hermann Prey, Lucia Popp, Gundula Janowitz, Bernd Weikl; conducted by Karl Böhm; Japanese subtitles)

Théâtre du Châtelet, 1993 (Bryn Terfel, Alison Hagley, Hillevi Martinpelto, Rodney Gilfry; conducted by John Eliot Gardiner; Italian subtitles)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1994 (Gerald Finley, Alison Hagley, Renée Fleming, Andreas Schmidt; conducted by Bernard Haitink; English subtitles)

Zürich Opera House, 1996 (Carlos Chaussón, Isabel Rey, Eva Mei, Rodney Gilfry; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; English subtitles)

Berlin State Opera, 2005 (Lauri Vasar, Anna Prohaska, Dorothea Röschmann, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo; conducted by Gustavo Dudamel; French subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2006 (Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Anna Netrebko, Dorothea Röschmann, Bo Skovhus; conducted by Nikolas Harnoncourt; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Teatro all Scala, 2006 (Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Diana Damrau, Marcella Orasatti Talamanca, Pietro Spagnoli; conducted by Gérard Korsten; English and Italian subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2015 (Adam Plachetka, Martina Janková, Anett Fritsch, Luca Pisaroni; conducted by Dan Ettinger; no subtitles)

Tosca

Carmine Gallone studio film, 1956 (Franca Duval dubbed by Maria Caniglia, Franco Corelli, Afro Poli dubbed by Giangiacomo Guelfi; conducted by Oliviero de Fabritiis; no subtitles)

Gianfranco de Bosio film, 1976 (Raina Kabaivanska, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes; conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1978 (Shirley Verrett, Luciano Pavarotti, Cornell MacNeil; conducted by James Conlon; no subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 1984 (Eva Marton, Jaume Aragall, Ingvar Wixell; conducted by Daniel Oren; no subtitles)

Teatro Real de Madrid, 2004 (Daniela Dessí, Fabio Armiliato, Ruggero Raimondi; conducted by Maurizio Benini; English subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2011 (Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel; conducted by Antonio Pappano; English subtitles)

Finnish National Opera, 2018 (Ausrinė Stundytė, Andrea Carè, Tuomas Pursio; conducted by Patrick Fournillier; English subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala 2019 (Anna Netrebko, Francesco Meli, Luca Salsi; conducted by Riccardo Chailly; Hungarian subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2019 (Sondra Radvanovsky, Piotr Beczala, Thomas Hampson; conducted by Marco Armiliato; English subtitles)

Ópera de las Palmas, 2024 (Erika Grimaldi, Piotr Beczala, George Gagnidze; conducted by Ramón Tebar; no subtitles)

Don Giovanni

Salzburg Festival, 1954 (Cesare Siepi, Otto Edelmann, Elisabeth Grümmer, Lisa della Casa; conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler; English subtitles)

Giacomo Vaccari studio film, 1960 (Mario Petri, Sesto Bruscantini, Teresa Stich-Randall, Leyla Gencer; conducted by Francesco Molinari-Pradelli; no subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 1987 (Samuel Ramey, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Julia Varady; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; no subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 1987 (Thomas Allen, Claudio Desderi, Edita Gruberova, Ann Murray; conducted by Riccardo Muti; English subtitles)

Peter Sellars studio film, 1990 (Eugene Perry, Herbert Perry, Dominique Labelle, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson; conducted by Craig Smith; English subtitles)

Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, 1997 (Simon Keenlyside, Bryn Terfel, Carmela Remigio, Anna Caterina Antonacci; conducted by Claudio Abbado; no subtitles) – Act I, Act II

Zürich Opera, 2000 (Rodney Gilfry, László Polgár, Isabel Rey, Cecilia Bartoli; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; English subtitles)

Festival Aix-en-Provence, 2002 (Peter Mattei, Gilles Cachemaille, Alexandra Deshorties, Mirielle Delunsch; conducted by Daniel Harding; no subtitles)

Teatro Real de Madrid, 2006 (Carlos Álvarez, Lorenzo Regazzo, Maria Bayo, Sonia Ganassi; conducted by Victor Pablo Pérez; English subtitles)

Festival Aix-en-Provence, 2017 (Philippe Sly, Nahuel de Pierro, Eleonora Burratto, Isabel Leonard; conducted by Jérémie Rohrer; English subtitles)

Madama Butterfly

Mario Lanfranchi studio film, 1956 (Anna Moffo, Renato Cioni; conducted by Oliviero de Fabritiis; no subtitles)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1974 (Mirella Freni, Plácido Domingo; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; English subtitles)

New York City Opera, 1982 (Judith Haddon, Jerry Hadley; conducted by Christopher Keene; English subtitles)

Frédéric Mitterand film, 1995 (Ying Huang, Richard Troxell; conducted by James Conlon; English subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 2004 (Fiorenza Cedolins, Marcello Giordani; conducted by Daniel Oren; Spanish subtitles)

Sferisterio Opera Festival, 2009 (Raffaela Angeletti, Massimiliano Pisapia; conducted by Daniele Callegari; no subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2017 (Maria José Siri, Murat Karahan; conducted by Jonathan Darlington; no subtitles)

Wichita Grand Opera, 2017 (Yunnie Park, Kirk Dougherty; conducted by Martin Mazik; English subtitles)

Teatro San Carlo, 2019 (Evgenia Muraveva, Saimir Pirgu; conducted by Gabriele Ferro; no subtitles)

Rennes Opera House, 2022 (Karah Son, Angelo Villari; conducted by Rudolf Piehlmayer; French subtitles)

[therealvinelle]

Hi, are there any relatively modern (past ~75 years) Norwegian authors you'd recommend? I'm more interested in genre fiction if you want to narrow it down, but anything goes. Thanks!

(Post on classic Norwegian literature)

I have a few! I unfortunately don't read much Norwegian literature, and the authors I have strong feelings about are older (namely Amalie Skram, Ibsen and Krogh).

Dag Solstad I haven't read but heard so much that I know I must.

Erlend Loe I haven't read myself, but heard great things about him. Has a very charming writing style.

Gerd Nyqvist, Norway's Agatha Christie. Only read one of her novels, "Avdøde ønsket ikke blomster" (the deceased did not want flowers at the funeral), but I liked it.

Jostein Gaarder writes philosophical and esoteric novels. The Christmas Mystery, The Cabal Mystery, and Sophie's World are all fantastic (though you have to start on December 1st with The Christmas Mystery and make your way through one chapter a day)

Unni Lindell is a crime author, though I haven't read any of her crime novels. I have, however, read "Knut - Nobody's baby", which is an autobiography told through the cats which have impacted her life, the most formative being a cat named Knut who forced her to move several times (she tried moving away from him at one point, didn't work out), became a national celebrity, and caused furore among the Norwegian cultural elite on several occasions. I'm not sure if Knut has been translated to English, but I'm hoping some of her works are.

Vigdis Hjorth because she is so incredibly controversial. Triggered national debate when she wrote a novel about sexual molestation in the family that was inspired by her real family even though she's never been molested, which made her family so upset that her sister wrote a novel about when your sister writes a novel about how she totally got molested except she didn't. From what I hear, the novel Hjorth wrote ("Arv og miljø", hopefully been translated to English) was really good and I've been meaning to read it.

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No zero days 16 - 29/365 - Weekly reviews

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🗣 My B2 conversation class has started and takes place for 90 minutes every Thursday (19.01. and 26.01.). I was pretty shy during the first lesson, since I'm new to the group, but the second lesson I talked a lot more.

📖 The teacher has us read texts from the textbook Her på berget: samfunnsfag og norsk for fremmedspråklige elever which we then discuss during the class. The topics we've covered so far: Realisme og naturalisme (Amalie Skram, Henrik Ibsen), Norge i union med Sverige, fra ingen til to norske skriftspråk, Knut Hamsun (dikt: Ringen). For extra speaking practice, I've recorded monologues of myself talking about the readings.

📖 I've come five chapters (46 pages) farther in Hør Her'a! and one of the coolest things has been learning more about kebabnorsk/Norwegian multiethnolect, since the main character uses it.

🎧 I watched the mini-series Julestorm with Norwegian subtitles (they were very useful when the Danish characters were talking!) - it was absurdly unrealistic, but wholesome nonetheless and with the subs I understood like 90% of all the dialogue. I also watched Kampen om Narvik on Netflix (albeit with English subs since my partner wanted to watch too), and it was cool to hear northern Norwegian.

🎧 I listened to sooooo many podcasts over the past two weeks, which I posted about here. I feel like I now have some go-to podcasts for a few different topics.

Spanish

🗣🎧 The A1 course started for me as well and takes place every Tuesday for 90 minutes (I've had class on 17.01. and 24.01.). The teacher is from Peru 🇵🇪 The pace is quite slow, but with Spanish I'm not in a rush.

📖 Grammar topics so far have been question words and prepositions of location. I made Memory flash cards for the prepositions, but what helped drill them into my brain was actually creating silly mnemonics. A lot of times it's about how the sound of the word reminds me of something related to it - the standard derecha in society is right 😆

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The Marriage of Figaro | Glyndebourne Festival Opera (1973)

[rudyroth79]

Premiera absolută a operei „Nunta lui Figaro” de Mozart Acum 234 de ani, la 1 mai 1786, la „Burgtheater” din Viena, a avut loc premiera absolută a operei comice…

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THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO (Le nozze di Figaro) an opera in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. A live recording from the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1973 with Kiri Te Kanawa, Frederica Von Stade, Ilieana Contrubas, Benjamin Luxon & Knut Skram. The London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Conductor John Pritchard, Stage Director Peter Hall.

THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO (Le nozze di Figaro) an opera in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. A live recording from the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1973 with Kiri Te Kanawa, Frederica Von Stade, Ilieana Contrubas, Benjamin Luxon & Knut Skram. The London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Conductor John Pritchard, Stage Director Peter Hall.

[852recordstores]

An extensive DVD box of beloved Glyndebourne classics. Faithful to the staging intended by the composers. Including superstar singers such as Janet Baker, Ileana Cotrubas, Kiri Te Kanawa, Felicity Lott, Thomas Allen, Samuel Ramey, Willard White. Featuring the London Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the world’s finest symphony orchestras, who are balancing a long and distinguished history with the festival, under the baton of world class conductors Bernard Haitink, Gustav Kuhn, Raymond Leppard and John Pritchard. With operas by: Beethoven ∙ Monteverdi ∙ Mozart ∙ Stravinsky ∙ Verdi

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Cosi fan tutte (1975, 149 mins) ‐ John Pritchard conductor · Adrian Slack stage director Thomas Allen; Anson Austin; Frantz Petri; Helena Dose; Sylvia Lindenstrand; Daniele Perriers

Il Seraglio (1980, 136 mins) Gustav Kuhn conductor · Peter Wood stage director Ryland Davies; Willard White; Valerie Masterson; James Hoback; Lillian Watson

The Magic Flute (1978, 163 mins) ‐ Bernard Haitink conductor · John Cox stage director Felicity Lott; Benjamin Luxon; Leo Goeke; Thomas Thomaschke; May Sandoz; Willard White

Don Giovanni (1977, 172 mins) Bernard Haitink conductor · Peter Hall stage director Benjamin Luxon, Stafford Dean; Rachel Yakar; Leo Goeke; Elizabeth Gale

Idomeneo (1974, 125 mins) John Pritchard conductor · John Cox stage director Bozena Betley, Leo Goeke, Josephine Barstow; Richard Lewis

Le Nozze di Figaro (1973, 168 mins) John Pritchard conductor · Peter Hall stage director Kiri Te Kanawa; Frederica von Stade; Ileana Cotrubas, Knut Skram; Benjamin Luxon

Giuseppe Verdi Falstaff (1976, 118 mins) John Pritchard conductor · Jean‐Pierre Ponnelle, stage director Donald GrammReni Penkova; Nucci Condo; Elizabeth Gale; Benjamin Luxon

Macbeth (1972, 146 mins) John Pritchard conductor · Michael Hadjimischev stage director Josephine Barstow, Kostas Paskalis, James Morris, Keith Erwen

Ludwig van Beethoven Fidelio (1979, 120 mins) Bernard Haitink conductor · Peter Hall stage director Elizabeth Soderstrom; Anton de Ridder; Robert AllmanCurt Appelgren

Claudio Monteverdi Il Ritorno D'Ulisse In Patria (1973, 150 mins) Raymond Leppard conductor · Peter Hall stage director Janet Baker, Anne Hoewlls, Robert Lloyd, Brian Burrows, Benjamin Luxon

Igor Stravinsky The Rake's Progress (1977, 140 mins) Bernard Haitink conductor · David Hockney stage director Felicity Lott, Leo Goeke, Samuel Ramey, Rosalind Elias Approx. Total Running Time: 26 Hours

Language: English Subtitles: English, German, French, Western, Italian Region Code: All Regions Release Date: 2 Aug 2019

[therealvinelle]

In Norway, what books are classic? Could you recommend some books that you had to read because of school or books that was written by a Norwegian author and you enjoyed it?

Sure!

Hope you don't mind that I put the titles in the original Norwegian, it's because I didn't want to look up every single official translation.

Anything by Amalie Skram is great, she was a 19th century realist writer and a hardcore feminist. Many of her works are biographical. Specifically, I will recommend her Hellemyrsfolket series, Forraadt, Hieronymus, and Lucie.

Henrik Ibsen is famous, and it's for a reason. His plays are great and way ahead of their time, he's one of the great playwrights in history. Vildanden, Peer Gynt, and En folkefiende (which inspired Jaws! Same themes, only replace "sharks" with "bad drinking water") are my recs for him.

Ludvig Holberg, Denmark insists he's theirs but he was born in Norway so sucks to be them. Erasmus Montanus is my big rec for Holberg, as it's about Rasmus Berg (Berg means Hill), a village boy who returns from college and has now become An Educated Man, thereby changing his name to the more intellectual-sounding Erasmus Montanus. It's a comedy making relentless fun of the educated elite.

Alexander Kielland, another realist writer. The short story Karen is beautiful, and the novel Gift is a delightful critique of the late 19th century Norwegian school system. It's so bad that our main character dies from Latin studies.

Knut Hamsun won the Nobel prize in literature and proceeded to give it to Adolf Hitler as a gift, because he was a nazi. He welcomed the occupation, and was a terrible person in general. If you struggle to separate the art from the artist, don't read Hamsun. If you don't struggle, then the man is infuriatingly good at writing. His prose is just out of this world, and it makes me so mad. Start with Sult, and when you're done hallucinating you can thank me.

Sigrid Unset also won the Nobel prize in literature, and unlike Hamsun she was firmly opposed to the nazis. She won the prize for her Kristin Lavransdatter series, which is historical fiction about a woman living in medieval Norway. Big recommend.

Selma Lagerlöf, not Norwegian but damn good. Another Nobel laureate. I recommend Jerusalem.

H.C. Andersen in case you haven't read him, he's Danish but SO GOOD.

Dag Solstad, I never read him but I intend to, he seems like he'll be right up my alley.

Gerd Nyqvist, I've only read the one novel by her but I liked it very much, it was very Agatha Christie-esque. Avdøde ønsket ikke blomster.

Jostein Gaarder, he's... an interesting guy, and I'll put it this way, if he'd been an English-speaking author he would have been picked up by HBO or Netflix by now. Kabalmysteriet comes to mind.