#madrid 2004

[millenari]

that's teamwork babey!

[dozydawn]

Japanese dancer Yoshie Karahashi, 31, dances on Mayor Square in Madrid. Yoshie has just completed a study of the history of flamenco and points to similarities with Japanese dance forms such as bon-odori and odorinenbutsu. She said that "Spanish culture is very different from that of Japan, but they are so far apart it adds to the mystery. And so, two hours a day, five days a week, this is my life."

Photographed by Christiphe Simon.

16 December 2004.

[soulvimvne]

Real Madrid 2003/2004

[white-cat-of-doom]

The 2004 cast recording for the Warsaw non-replica of CATS. As with most cast recordings, this one is highlights of the show.

There are a few photos of the rehearsals for the production in the booklet, along with cast and creative team credits.

I admittedly have not given this a listen yet, but it is great that a production like Warsaw had the opportunity to release a cast recording, especially it being a non-replica.

Now if I could only find the Versione Italiana CD easily.

[trainderailments]

2004 madrid bombing

[scarletwitchie2]

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Susan Watts Photoshoot - 2004

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2010 The Tourist Madrid premiere

[adribosch-fan]

20 años del 11M, el aniversario que da carpetazo a la peor tragedia vivida en España desde los tiempos de la Guerra Civil

Aniversario del 11M.SERGIO BARRENECHEA El peor atentado terrorista de la historia de España cumple este lunes 20 años, dos décadas de dolor por los 192 muertos y cerca de 2.000 heridos que dejaron diez bombas ocultas en cuatro trenes de Cercanías de Madrid. En la memoria de todos los españoles permanece muy vivo el recuerdo de aquel fatídico 11 de marzo de 2004, el día que el país conoció en…

[operafantomet]

RED LININGS IN THE PHANTOM'S VARIOUS ATTIRES

Ramin Karimloo's West End boots

Greg Mills / Laird Mackintosh's Broadway boots

Gerard Butler's saber / épée bell guard in the 2004 movie

Hints of red lining in Joshua Robson in the Sydney Harbour

Joshua Robson's costume backstage, Sydney Harbour

Joshua Robson's costume onstage, Sydney Harbour

Ramin Karimloo, Trieste / Mediterranean

Ramin Karimloo, Monte Carlo / Mediterranean

Ramin Karimloo, Trieste / Mediterranean

Manu Pilas, Madrid / Mediterranean

Gerónimo Rauch, Madrid / Mediterranean

Gerónimo Rauch, Madrid / Mediterranean

Adrian Nour, Bucharest

Adrian Nour, Bucharest

[antihumanist]

List Of Criminals And Killers, Crimes/Cases That Pekka-Eric Auvinen Knew About:

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (Columbine High School Massacre)

Robert Steinhauser (Erfurt School Massacre)

Jeff Weise (Red Lake Shootings)

James Oliver Huberty (San Ysidro McDonalds Massacre)

Ted Kaczynski, The Unabomber

Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma City Bombing)

Seung-Hui Cho (Virginia Tech Massacre)

Eric Rudolph (US domestic terrorist)

Ted Bundy

Jeffrey Dahmer

Franz Fuchs, The Austrian Unabomber

1995 Tokyo Subway Sarin Attacks

Charles Whitman (1966 University Of Texas, Austin Tower Shooting)

Jack The Ripper

Graham Young, The Teacup Poisioner

Dennis Rader, The BTK Killer

Eugen Schauman (Assassin)

9/11

JFK Assassination

2002 Moscow Theatre Siege

2004 Madrid Train Bombings

Halabja Massacre (Also known as the Halabja Chemical Attack)

Sebastian Bosse (Emsdetten School Shooting)

Waco Siege

Assassination Of Julius Caesar

Jack Gilbert Graham (United Airlines Flight 629 Bombing)

Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln

Assassination Of Leon Trotsky

Assassination Of Mahatma Ghandi

RFK Assassination

Woo Bum-kon (Uiryeoung County Massacre)

According to his mother, she was worried her son would also end up like Petri Gerdt, perpetrator of the Myyrmanni Bombing, It's likely Auvinen was aware of this case.

She had also talked with him about school shootings in America.

Auvinen had also debated with his mother whether if violent crimes were justified if given the right motive.

These are all that I know of to the best of my memory, if anyone has more please comment.

[charlotte-of-wales]

Happy 52nd birthday to Queen Letizia of Spain!

Born 15 September 1972, Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano is Queen of Spain as the wife of King Felipe VI.

Letizia was born in Oviedo, Asturias. She completed a bachelor's degree in journalism, at the Complutense University of Madrid, as well as a master's degree in audiovisual journalism at the Institute for Studies in Audiovisual Journalism. She worked as a journalist for ABC and EFE before becoming a news anchor at CNN+ and Televisión Española.

In August 2003, a few months before her engagement to Felipe, Prince of Asturias, Letizia was promoted to anchor of the TVE daily evening news programme Telediario 2, the most viewed newscast in Spain. In 2000, she reported from Washington, D.C., on the presidential elections. In September 2001, she broadcast live from Ground Zero following the 9/11 attacks in New York and in 2003, she filed reports from Iraq following the war.

On 1 November 2003, the Royal Household announced Letizia’s engagement to Prince Felipe. The wedding took place on 22 May 2004 in the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid. Letizia and Felipe have two daughters: Leonor, Princess of Asturias (18) and Infanta Sofía (17).

On 19 June 2014, Letizia became Queen of Spain with her husband's accession as Felipe VI. She is the first Spanish-born queen consort since Mercedes of Orléans, the first wife of Alfonso XII, in 1878. She is also the first Spanish queen to have been born as a commoner.

[millenari]

Such a series of events for Tugger

>chases Demeter

>gets distracted

>chases Misto

>gets distracted

>confuses himself trying to find someone else to chase

>gets his ass slapped and doesnt even notice

>chases Deuteronomy

[princesssarisa]

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)

[naturepointstheway]

Ooh spotted me a bit of Tuggoffelees in Zurich 1991/92 👀

So I don't tend to watch Growltiger parts (I just skip over them except the very first little bit because Misto antics), as I'm not really into the whole racist thing, and want to skip it. Tonight, however, I watched several Growltiger versions (e.g. original Vienna, OBC, early '90s Mexico, 2004 Madrid) to see if others had a Tugger and Misto who literally did a little partner dance (with twirl!) outside of Zurich 1991-92, and well, let's just say I came up empty-handed, despite diving deep into those aforementioned bootlegs.

So here's some tasty Tuggoffelees morsels, courtesy of Zurich 1991-92, with Lindsay Chambers as Misto and Brian Carmack as Tugger.

There is no heterosexual explanation for this and I love it.

(Now all I can think of is that one photo of Tugger sitting in Mungojerrie's lap and how very gay that is too.)

Error 404: Heterosexual Explanation Not Found.

[white-cat-of-doom]

how many versions of cats were released on cd? I have the obc and olc versions so I was wondering if you knew what other versions there were, and if possible where to find them :D many thanks!

Hello Anon,

There are eighteen cast recordings:

Original London 1981 (both 2CD full recording and 1CD highlights)

Original Broadway 1982 (both 2CD full recording and 1CD highlights)

Vienna 1983 (1CD highlights)

Budapest 1984 (1CD highlights)*

Australia (Sydney) 1985 (2CD full recording)

Japan (Osaka) 1985 (2CD full recording)

Hamburg 1986 (2CD full recording)

Amsterdam 1987 (1CD highlights)

Paris 1989 (2CD full recording)

Japan (Nagoya) 1989 (2CD full recording)

Mexico 1991 (1CD highlights)

Warsaw 2004 (1CD highlights)*

Prague 2004 (1CD highlights)*

Dutch Tour 2006 (1CD highlights)

Italian Tour 2009 (1CD highlights)*

Japan (Tokyo) 2019 (2CD full recording)

2019 Movie (1CD highlights)

Vienna Revival 2021 (2CD full recording)

*Non-replica production, if that matters

In addition, there are a number of promo CDs that include a handful of tracks from the casts at the time of release:

Hamburg 1996 (3 track promo, assuming audio taken from 1986 cast recording)

Japan (Tokyo) 1996 (3 track promo)

CATS 1998 Elaine Paige (3 track promo; 'Memory' included, and two other non-CATS songs)

Japan (Osaka) 2001 (4 track promo)

Madrid 2003 (1 track 'Memory' promo)

Moscow 2005 (8 track promo?, two versions; both have 4 instrumental tracks)

Dutch Tour 2006 (3 track promo, audio from 2006 cast recording)

German Tent Tour 2011 (3 track promo)

Of everything listed above, the only ones I do not own are the Madrid 2003 'Memory' promo, Prague 2004 cast recording (a very rare CD that was scrapped before moving to production, only test/promo copies exist), and Moscow 2005 (another very rare promo release, only found with the press packages). Who knows if I can ever get my hands on them.

In terms of where to find them, the OLC, OBC, and Vienna 1983 are still being produced today and can be easily found new online, through Amazon or eBay (or better yet, in-person at your local music store!), and so is the Budapest 1984 CD as well (at least from what I can tell, it is always readily available brand new from Hungary). The 1989 and 2019 Japanese cast recordings are also still readily available brand new from Japan through the Shiki webstore. The 2019 movie highlights is also very easy to find, considering it just was released. The Vienna 2021 recording is still available from the label's website (at 45% right now!), but they only ship within Europe.

All the others can be found second-hand to varying degrees of ease online (i.e., eBay). The 1980s cast recordings are not too difficult, with Hamburg being fairly easily found, but as you start moving into lesser known (and shorter running) productions, it becomes more difficult to find them. Some are extremely uncommon, and I purchased the only copy I have even seen go for sale throughout the years, and I am still waiting for the chance to get the few I do not have.

Happy hunting to you, Anon!

[chromet]

Spider-Man 2 x Atletico Madrid football kit collaboration (2004)

[glassprism]

I love the music of the night, but I cannot stand the mannequin part towards the end. Which versions of MOTN do not have that part?

How about I just describe the scene for each production and you can decide if you like it or not!

Original and modified productions: There is a Mirror Bride. She is revealed by the Phantom and when Christine approaches her, she pops out / drops forward, frightening Christine and causing her to faint.

Budapest non-replica: There is not only a Mirror Bride but a Mirror Groom dressed as the Phantom! Mirror Bride and Groom are revealed and then kiss, causing Christine to faint for the second time in that scene (the first was after hitting the high note at the end of the title song - girl's having quite a night).

2004 movie: There is a Mirror Bride. Despite just standing there, Christine nevertheless faints and is carried off by the Phantom.

Warsaw/Bialystok non-replica: There is a Mirror Bride here. It does not move but just spins into view (and quite quickly too), at which Christine faints (very gracefully) and is lowered to the floor.

25th anniversary concert: No Mirror Bride, but Christine still faints when the pressure of the Phantom's hand on her arm cuts off the blood supply to her brain, apparently.

Restaged tours: No Mirror Bride, but there is a blindfold that fans take just as much umbrage with. Anyway, Christine does not even faint in this version, but is carried off to bed by the Phantom before quite trustingly going to sleep.

Prague non-replica: A Mirror Bride is revealed at the end of the song. It does the Robot which then causes Christine to faint.

Tartu/Tallin non-replica: No Mirror Bride here as far as I can see (despite being one of the few non-replicas to have an actual wedding dress for Christine), and from what I saw, Christine just waltzes off to the Phantom's bed for a nap on her own initiative.

Helsinki/Gothenburg non-replica: No Mirror Bride, the Phantom walks Christine over to his bed for a nap.

Original Bucharest/Oslo/Greece/Middle East and Eastern European tour non-replica: No Mirror Bride; instead the scene ends with Christine trying to unmask the Phantom and failing, then going to sleep on the hard rock floor.

Belgrade non-replica: No idea.

Sofia non-replica: No idea.

Kristianstad non-replica: The Mirror Bride not only moves, she has been fully upgraded to do a whole dance with Christine, after which Christine collapses, either from the shock or from sheer exertion.

Sydney Harbour non-replica: I wish I knew; Christine seems to get shocked by something in the mirror, but I couldn't see what.

Italian Tour/Madrid non-replica: No Mirror Bride, Christine just faints in the Phantom's arms.

Bucharest revival non-replica: No idea.

Love Never Dies: Not present in the Australian version that has become the basis for most other productions. However, the original London production did feature a Christine doll in the opening scene. I can only presume it is an upgrade of the original Mirror Bride, hauled all the way from Paris to Coney Island so that the Phantom can play with her before locking her in his penis cage so that he can plot how to woo Christine atop a vagina balcony after she disembarks from Pier 69.