#otto edelmann

[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)

[weimarhaus]

Erwin Wendt, (1900-1951), Hup, (Horn), 1928, Collage, 50 × 35,1 cm. Via Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf.

Erwin Wendt grew up in Liebenwerda as the son of master carpenter Robert Wendt and his wife Emma Haupt. In the autumn of 1917 he began studying with Professor Paul Rößler at the State Academy of Applied Arts in Dresden, but then served as a soldier in the First World War. After the end of the war he continued his studies with Rößler in January 1919 and graduated in July 1926 with the title of master student. In 1927 Erwin Wendt moved from Dresden to Düsseldorf, where he created a significant part of his works. At first he worked as a designer in the Sichtermann & Edelmann studio. In 1928/29 he became a student of Professor Heinrich Campendonk at the State Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf and went on a study trip to Holland. From 1929 he was a freelance artist and became a member of the artists' associations Das Junge Rheinland, to which Otto Dix was also a member, and the Rheinische Secession.

[feuerwehr114]

Samstag 26.10.2024

Einsatz: 2483

Gegen 17:14 Uhr wurden die Feuerwehren Weibersbrunn, Waldaschaff, Bessenbach, Großostheim und die Feuerwehrinspektionen Aschaffenburg-Land 1, Aschaffenburg-Land 1-1-4 Aschaffenburg-Land 2 und Aschaffenburg-Land 2-3 zu einer Technischen Hilfeleistung 4 | VU - LKW/Bus (leer) Person eingeklemmt auf die BAB 3 in Richtung Frankfurt alarmiert.

Wir wurden von der Leitstelle zusammen mit den Feuerwehren Waldaschaff, Bessenbach, Großostheim und die Feuerwehrinspektionen Aschaffenburg-Land 1, Aschaffenburg-Land 1-1-4 Aschaffenburg-Land 2 und Aschaffenburg-Land 2-3 zu einer Technischen Hilfeleistung 4 alarmiert.

𝗧ö𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗵𝗿𝘀𝘂𝗻𝗳𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝘂𝗳 𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝟯 𝗯𝗲𝗶 𝗪𝗲𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗻: 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘇𝘂𝗴 𝗸𝗶𝗽𝗽𝘁 𝘂𝗺 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗟𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗻𝗴

Am Samstagnachmittag, gegen 17:15 Uhr, ereignete sich auf der A3 bei Weibersbrunn in Fahrtrichtung Frankfurt am Main ein schwerer Verkehrsunfall, bei dem ein Sattelzug von der Fahrbahn abkam und auf die Seite kippte. Der 59-Jährige Fahrer wurde dabei schwer in seinem Führerhaus eingeklemmt, sodass die Einsatzkräfte nach Ankunft sofort mit der technischen Rettung des Verunfallten mittels mehrerer hydraulischer Rettungsgeräte beginnen mussten. Leider konnte der Notarzt nach seinem Eintreffen nur noch den Tod des Fahrers feststellen. Ein alarmierter Rettungshubschrauber wurde daraufhin abbestellt.

Durch die Wucht des Unfalls wurden große Teile des Sattelaufliegers und der Sattelzugmaschine abgerissen; die gesamte Ladung verteilte sich großflächig über die Fahrbahn und den Seitenstreifen- sowie graben. Neben den sofort eingeleiteten Rettungsmaßnahmen sicherte die Feuerwehr die Unfallstelle sowohl in Fahrtrichtung Frankfurt am Main als auch in Fahrtrichtung Würzburg ab. Die Gegenfahrbahn musste aufgrund der Rettungsarbeiten am Lastkraftwagen ebenfalls kurzzeitig vollgesperrt werden. Anschließend nahmen die Einsatzkräfte auslaufende Betriebsstoffe auf und pumpten im weiteren Einsatzverlauf die beschädigten Dieseltanks des Lastwagens ab, um ein unkontrolliertes Auslaufen zu verhindern. Zur aktuellen Stunde wird zur Unterstützung der Bergungsarbeiten der Teleskoplader der Feuerwehr Großostheim an die Einsatzstelle angefordert.

Rund 50 Einsatzkräfte der Feuerwehren Weibersbrunn, Waldaschaff und Bessenbach waren unter der Leitung von Einsatzleiter und Kommandant Michael Edelmann neben Rettungsdienst und Polizei im Einsatz. Seitens der Kreisbrandinspektion Aschaffenburg unterstützten Kreisbrandrat Frank Wissel, Kreisbrandinspektor Otto Hofmann sowie Kreisbrandmeister Marco Eich vor Ort die Einsatzmaßnahmen. Auch die Autobahnbereitschaft des THW Marktheidenfeld war mit einem Verkehrssicherungsanhänger im Einsatz.

Die A3 wird voraussichtlich noch mehrere Stunden, möglicherweise bis in die frühen Morgenstunden, vollgesperrt bleiben oder nur in Teilbereichen befahrbar sein, um die umfangreichen Bergungs- und Reinigungsarbeiten sicher abschließen zu können.

Eingesetzte Fahrzeuge:

Feuerwehr Weibersbrunn 11/1

Feuerwehr Weibersbrunn 40/1

Feuerwehr Weibersbrunn 61/1

Weitere Kräfte:

Feuerwehr Waldaschaff 12/1

Feuerwehr Waldaschaff 14/1 mit VSA |

Feuerwehr Waldaschaff 40/1

Feuerwehr Waldaschaff 42/1

Feuerwehr Waldaschaff 56/1 mit VSA ||

Feuerwehr Waldaschaff 60/1

Feuerwehr Waldaschaff 63/1 mit VSA |||

Feuerwehr Bessenbach 11/1

Feuerwehr Bessenbach 42/1

Feuerwehr Bessenbach 56/1

Feuerwehrinspektion Aschaffenburg-Land 1

Feuerwehrinspektion Aschaffenburg-Land 1-1-4

Feuerwehrinspektion Aschaffenburg-Land 2

Feuerwehrinspektion Aschaffenburg-Land 2-3

Technisches Hilfswerk Marktheidenfeld

Rettungsdienst

Notarzt

Autobahnpolizei

Unfallsachverständiger

Abschleppdienst

Bergugsfirma für LKW Unfälle

Autobahmeisterei mit VSA

[mickadamz]

i lieu of the recent post i wanted to give them a full design.l will do the others later lol

[aschenblumen]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni (escena del Comendador). Wilhelm Furtwängler, director Cesare Siepi, don Giovanni Otto Edelmann, Leporello Dezsö Ernster, el Comendador

[elmartillosinmetre]

El día que murió Franco nos pusimos todos muy contentos, porque esa mañana nos quedamos jugando en la calle.

[padfootagain]

Proposed by @madamrogers :

At first, I want to thank you for hosting an event like this! It has been so interesting to read about movies from other countries and I decided to put only Finnish movies on this list. Some of these I’ve seen, some are important or have a significant meaning for our culture or were just quite popular when they came out.

Tie pohjoiseen (Eng. Road North) 2012 - Directed by Mika Kaurismäki - Starring Vesa-Matti Loiri, Samuli Edelmann

Summary: A drama, a road movie about a father who meets his son after a long time. The father wants to bond with the son after these long 30 years and they go on a long road trip to the north.

Jenna’s Note: Vesa-Matti Loiri is one of the most iconic faces of Finnish cinema (and also music, he’s a singer as well) and he really deserves all the appreciation he gets. Him and Edelmann (who is also a singer, they sing the ending song of the film together) work very well together in this one, they have chemistry and it’s visible how much they’ve enjoyed working together. This is one of my own favorites of Finnish movies.

Lupaus (Eng. Promise) 2005 - Directed by Ilkka Vanne - Starring Laura Birn, Karoliina Vanne, Hanna Lekander, Ilkka Villi

Summary: A movie about three young women who live a normal life in Finland until Winter War in 1939. All three of the women join the Lotta Svärd, a Finnish voluntary auxiliary paramilitary organisation for women. The movie follows the women from Winter War in 1939 to Continuation War in 1941 and till the year 1956.

Jenna’s Note: I’ve seen this once and I remember I liked this quite a lot. For once there’s a movie about Lotta Svärd. I’ve always respected them a lot. This has some war scenes, if I remember right, and everyone is not making it out alive but it also shows how there can be happiness in the middle of fear and death.

Poika ja ilves (Eng. Boy and Lynx) 1998 - Directed by Raimo O Niemi - Starring Konsta Hietanen and Väinö the Lynx

Summary: A movie about a friendship between a boy and a lynx.

Jenna’s Note: I loved this movie as a child. I haven’t watched it in years, but it really is a touching story. I remember how most of the girls had some sort of a crush on this boy, Konsta Hietanen, who nowadays plays music and I think has come back to acting after playing football for years.

Joulutarina (Eng. Christmas Story) 2007 - Directed by Juha Wuolijoki - Starring Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Otto Gustavsson, Kari Väänänen, Minna Haapkylä

Summary: A story about an orphaned boy called Nikolas becoming Santa Claus.

Jenna’s Note: This is the movie I watch every Christmas. I could say it’s one of my favorite Finnish movies of all time. It also makes me cry very much, which is always a good sign. It was said somewhere that “if Walt Disney would’ve been able to tell a story like this, he would have told it,” and I think it’s absolutely true!

Äideistä parhain (Eng. Mother of Mine) 2005 - Directed by Klaus Härö - Starring Topi Marjaniemi, Marjaana Maijala, Esko Salminen

Summary: The plot of the story is based on the time of the Second World War and the main character of the story is a Finnish boy (Eero Lahti). The biological father of Eero (Kari-Pekka Toivonen) is in the Finnish army. He dies in the front and Eero’s mother Kirsti falls into deep depression. As the war gets worse, Eero is sent to Sweden to a new Swedish family. In the new family, he has a father Hjalmar Jönsson, mother Signe Jönsson and a grandfather (who cannot speak but hears everything). He also meets the neighbor’s daughter Siv. And then he has to go back to Finland when the war ends.

Jenna’s Note: I saw this one for the first time when I was quite young and I remember crying so much during it. Only seeing the add or the first minutes makes me cry. It’s a sad, momentarily very unfair story but it’s still very beautiful, touching and deep.

Prinsessa (Eng. Princess) 2010 - Directed by Arto Halonen - Starring Katja Kukkola, Samuli Edelmann, Krista Kosonen, Peter Franzén

Summary: After a difficult childhood spent in foster homes, cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen suffers from severe delusions and ends up in psychiatric care. She claims to be Princess, a member of the English royal family.

Jenna’s Note: This is a biographical film, based on a life of Anna Lappalainen, and I didn’t know this before. I like the psychology in this and it’s pretty good as a movie too, the main actress does really good job but some moments are quite disturbing. This gives me vibes of Russell Crove’s movie “A Beautiful Mind”, even though the setting is different.

Tuntematon sotilas (Eng. The Unknown Soldier) 2017 - Directed by Aku Louhimies - Starring Eero Aho, Johannes Holopainen, Jussi Vatanen, Aku Hirviniemi, Hannes Suominen, Paula Vesala, Samuli Vauramo

Summary: Based on Väinö Linna’s classic novel “The Unknown Soldier”, the part of our national legacy, the movie tells a story about a machine gun company of the Finnish Army from a frog perspective during the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1944.

Jenna’s Note: This is only one of the versions; there is the first one from 1955 and the second from 1985. And because it was Finland’s 100th year of independence last year, they made the third version. I haven’t had the chance to see this one just yet, but one of the versions is on TV on the independence day, so I’m waiting for will it be this one. This has a good cast, some very popular and good Finnish actors and this is a very liked film, so I’m looking forward to finally seeing it. I’ve seen the other two versions, and I personally like the 1985 version the best.

Helmiä ja sikoja (Eng. Pearls and Pigs) 2003 - Directed by Perttu Leppä - Starring Mikko Leppilampi, Laura Birn, Amanda Pilke

Summary: When the Hirvonen brother’s (Läde, Timo, Ruho and Poju) bootlegging father ends up in jail, his sons need money to pay his debts to local crooks. The brothers suddenly get a new family member when their stepsister, Saara, moves in with them. Soon they find out Saara has an outstanding singing voice and the boys come up with an idea to send her to a child star contest. To train the girl a former child star, a current pub rose, is employed.

Jenna’s Note: The name is funny, I know. Don’t stare at it too much. In a way it suits this movie quite well. In which the girls are the pearls and the boys the pigs, haha. This is a comedy and basically only one Finnish comedy I’ve seen and liked. I also love Mikko Leppilampi, he is a good actor, but nowadays he is mainly a host in different programs.

Tom of Finland 2017 - Directed by Dome Karukoski - Starring Pekka Strang

Summary: Touko Laaksonen returns home to Finland after serving in World War II. In post-war Helsinki, he makes a name for himself with his homoerotic drawings of muscular men. Before finding fame, Laaksonen finds challenges from his sister and Finnish society due to his art.

Jenna’s Note: I haven’t personally seen this movie yet, but decided to put it on the list since it has been sold to another countries, the concept. And I think this movie was in cinema in other countries too. It’s a quite big thing in Finland, there are all kinds of stuff about it, from bed covers to everything.

Syke (Eng. Pulse) Since 2014, still ongoing - Created by Petja Peltomaa - Starring Lena Meriläinen, Tiina Lymi, Leena Pöysti, Iina Kuustonen

Summary: A show about four nurses. In every episode there are two or three patients whose lives have something to do with the nurses’ lives; they know each other or something else. It also follows the nurses private lives: love, hate and other things.

Jenna’s Note: The only tv series of the list! I’ve watched this since it began and it’s the best Finnish show I’ve ever seen. It’s interesting, something is always happening and the actors are good. It almost got cancelled but then another channel bought it and there’ll be another season later this year, it’s the fifth.

[mozart-1053]

Tagged by lovely @tres-calme, thanks!

Rules: shuffle your music, write down the first ten songs you get and tag ten other people

1. Mozart - Cosi fan tutte, Act I, Scene Two: "Bella vita militar!" (Otto Klemperer; New Philharmonia Orchestra)

2. JS Bach - Italian concerto, I mov (Walter Gieseking)

3. Richard Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier, Act II, “Da Lieg’ ich!” (Otto Edelmann)

4. Bartok - The Miraculous Mandarin, “The three tramps leap out, seize the Mandarin and tear him away from the girl” (Gerard Schwarz; Seattle Symphony)

5. JS Bach - Das Orgelbuchlein: Vom Himmel hoch, da komm’ ich her, BWV 606 (Wolfgang Rubsam)   

6. Surgeon - Convenience Trap, Pt.2 

7. Franz Schreker - Der Ferne Klang, Act III, “Schauspieler: Erinnerst du dich, das war eine Zeit” (Hagen Opera Chorus)

8. Mozart - Piano conceto No. 23, 2nd mov (credited “Heaven’s Own Musical Ensemble” but no idea who they are)

9. Franz Schubert - “Die Advokaten”, D. 37

10. another Schubert lied - “Des Fräuleins Liebeslauschen”, D. 698, sung by Matthias Goerne. Also this recording of Schubert lieder by him is a true gem, imo

tagging: @songsofdawn @fantasiaarmonica @bwv1080 @hotankles​ @lavilladeste​ @operahockeyguy​ but ofc feel free to ignore.

[852recordstores]

Herbert von Karajan made his first - and perharps most thrilling - recording of the complete Beethoven Symphonies with the Philharmonia Orchestra in the early 1950's. The set, a jewel of the Warner Classics catalogue, was recorded in mono, but an expetimental stereo version of the 9th Symphony was made in parallel at the sessions in Vienna. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVENSymphony No. 9 in D minor, Op.125 ‘Choral’Side A Side B Side C Side DI. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestosoII. Molto vivace – PrestoIII. Adagio molto e cantabile – Andante moderatoIV. Presto – Recitativo – Allegro assai – Allegro assai vivace – Alla marcia – Andante maestoso – Allegro energico, sempre ben marcato – Allegro ma non troppo – Prestissimo ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF soprano ·MARGA HÖFFGEN contralto · ERNST HAEFLIGER tenor · OTTO EDELMANN bassStereo mix issued for the 1st time in the Karajan Official Remastered Edition (Warner Classics, 2014) Recorded: 24–29.VII.1955, Musikvereinssaal, ViennaProducer: Walter Legge, Balance engineer: unknown Release Date: 5 July 2019

[princesssarisa]

The Top 40 Most Popular Operas, Part 1 (#1 through #10)

A quick guide for newcomers to the genre, with links to online video recordings of complete performances with English subtitles.

Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

The most frequently performed opera worldwide: Mozart's fascinating, philosophical fairy tale opera, which appeals to both children and adults.

San Francisco Opera, 2010 (Piotr Beczala, Dina Kuznetsoca, Christopher Maltman, Erika Miklosa, Georg Zeppenfeld; conducted by Donald Runnicles)

Verdi's La Traviata

Tragic romance with social commentary, based on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias, which was also the basis for the classic 1936 Greta Garbo film Camille.

Los Angeles Opera, 2006 (Renée Fleming, Rolando Villazon, Renato Bruson; conducted by James Conlon)

Bizet's Carmen

The fiery tragedy of a seductive, free-spirited Spanish Romani woman and her loves, with some of opera's most iconic music.

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2006 (Anna Caterina Antonacci, Jonas Kaufmann, Ildebrando d'Arcancelo, Norah Ansellem; conducted by Antonio Pappano)

Puccini's La Bohéme

Relatable slice-of-life romance that blends comedy and tragedy. The inspiration for the popular musical RENT.

Studio film, 1965 (Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi, Rolando Panerai, Adriana Martino; conducted by Herbert von Karajan)

Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

The best loved of Mozart's Italian operas, a great comedy of class conflict and sexual intrigue.

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1994 (Gerald Finley, Alison Hagley, Renée Fleming, Andreas Schmidt, Marie-Ange Todorovich; conducted by Bernard Haitink)

Puccini's Tosca

Political intrigue, lust, and bloodshed amid the splendor of Rome – some call it a "shabby little shocker," others call it thrilling.

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

Mozart's Don Giovanni

Arguably the greatest retelling of the legend of Don Juan, with comedy, drama, and Mozart's glorious music.

Salzburg Festival, 1954 (Cesare Siepi, Otto Edelmann, Elisabeth Grümmer, Anton Dermota, Lisa della Casa, Erna Berger, Walter Berry Deszö Ernster; conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler)

Puccini's Madama Butterfly

Puccini's iconic "Japanese tragedy." Controversial from a racial standpoint, but a tearjerker nonetheless, and the inspiration for the musical Miss Saigon.

Feature film, 1995 (Ying Huang, Richard Troxell, Ning Liang, Richard Cowan; conducted by James Conlon)

Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)

The lighter and more madcap prequel to The Marriage of Figaro, known as the quintessential comic opera.

Vienna State Opera, 2019 (Rafael Fingerlos, Juan Diego Flórez, Margarita Gritskova, Paolo Rumetz, Sorin Coliban; conducted by Evelino Pidò)

Verdi's Rigoletto

A richly melodic tragedy of a hunchbacked jester, his daughter, a lecherous duke, and a self-fulfilling curse.

Studio film, 1982 (Ingvar Wixell, Luciano Pavarotti, Edita Gruberova; conducted by Riccardo Chailly)

[saidthewizard]

Stuff Arising From Conversation

Just now one of my correspondents here and I were exchanging messages about the human voice, Prima Donnas, and whatnot. The name Elisabeth Schwarzkopf came up, and I mentioned how her Marschallin in Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier blew my mind the first time I saw the film of Paul Czinner’s 1960 production.

So here is that film.  The conductor is Herbert von Karajan, who in those days had not yet been overwhelmed by the notion that he was God’s representative on earth, and therefore still used his genius to serve music, rather than (as arguably happened later) have music provide the soundtrack to his own greatness.

Marschallin - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Octavian - Sena Jurinac Baron Ochs von Lerchenau - Otto Edelmann Sophie - Anneliese Rothenberger Herr von Faninal - Erich Kunz Valzacchi - Reanato Ercolani Italian Singer - Giuseppe Zampieri

Chor der Wiener Staatsoper Wiener Philharmoniker Herbert von Karajan 1960

[feuerwehr114]

Samstag 29.06.2024

Einsatz: 1534

Gegen 11:40 Uhr wurden die Feuerwehren Weibersbrunn, Waldaschaff und die Feuerwehrinspektion Aschaffenburg-Land 2 zu einem B 3 | im Freien - am Gebäude alarmiert.

Wir wurden von der Leitstelle zusammen mit der Feuerwehr Waldaschaff und der Feuerwehrinspektion Aschaffenburg-Land 2 zu einem B 3 alarmiert.

Um 11:40 Uhr erfolgte der nächste Einsatzalarm. Diesmal wurden die Feuerwehren Weibersbrunn und Waldaschaff, zusammen mit dem zuständigen Kreisbrandinspektor Otto Hofmann, zu einem Brand von Bäumen an einem Haus in Weibersbrunn gerufen. Drei Tuja-Bäume standen in Vollbrand, konnten jedoch schnell von zwei Trupps des HLF und TLF der Feuerwehr Weibersbrunn unter Einsatz zweier S-Schläuche gelöscht werden. Ein Rettungswagen aus Sailauf war ebenfalls vor Ort, um die Einsatzkräfte abzusichern. Da die Bäume durch den Brand stark geschwächt wurden und sich die Einsatzstelle direkt neben einem Gehweg befand, mussten sie zur Sicherheit gefällt werden. Die Feuerwehren Weibersbrunn und Waldaschaff waren mit fünf Fahrzeugen und 28 Einsatzkräften unter der Leitung des Kommandanten der Feuerwehr Weibersbrunn, Michael Edelmann, im Einsatz. Kreisbrandinspektor Otto Hofmann stand beratend zur Seite.

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Feuerwehr Weibersbrunn 21/1

Feuerwehr Weibersbrunn 40/1

Weitere Kräfte:

Feuerwehr Waldaschaff 30/1

Feuerwehr Waldaschaff 40/1

Feuerwehrinspektion Aschaffenburg-Land 2

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May 15 in Music History

1501 A Dedication of the first book of polyphonic music ever to be printed by Ottaviano del Petrucci's Harmonice musices odhecaton A.

1567 Baptism of Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi.

1754 Birth of composer Pierre Dutillieu. 1759 Birth of composer Maria Theresia von Paradis.

1764 Birth of composer Johann Nepomuk Kalcher.

1807 Birth of composer Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata.

1808 Birth of composer Gottfried Herrmann.

1808 Birth of Irish singer, violinist, and composer Michael William Balfe.

1813 Birth of Hungarian pianist and composer Stephen Heller.

1832 Death of German composer Karl Friedrich Zelter in Berlin. 

1841 Birth of composer Giovanni Bolzoni.

1858 Opening of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in London with a production of Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots. Third opening following a fire in March 1856.

1873 Birth of composer Nikolay N Tcherepnin, in St Petersburg

1878 Birth of composer Francisco Pujol.

1883 Birth of composer Stanley Robert Marchant.

1893 Birth of composer Michel Gusikoff. 

1897 Birth of composer George Perlman. 

1907 Birth of composer Josef Alexander. 

1908 Birth of Swedish composer Lars-Erik Larsson, in Akarp. 

1909 Birth of composer Rodolfo Cornejo.

1912 Birth of American composer Arthur Berger.

1913 FP of Claude Debussy's ballet Jeux 'Games'. Ballet Russe, Pierre Monteux conducting at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris.

1914 Birth of composer and organist Pierre Froidebise.

1920 FP of Stravinsky's Pulcinella. By Ballet Russe in Paris.

1923 Birth of English arranger and conductor John Lanchbery in London. 

1925 Birth of American experimental composer Emmanuel Ghent.

1925 Birth of Russian composer Andrei Eshpai.

1926 Birth of composer Clermont Pepin.

1936 Birth of composer Jean Balissat.

1938 Birth of English modern music composer Dick Higgins. 

1941 Birth of American composer and pianist Richard Wilson.

1948 Birth of Scottish composer Tommy Fowler in Aberdeen.

1949 FP of Paul Hindemith's Concerto for Four Winds, Harp and Orch. In NYC.

1949 FP of Randall Thompson's Sym. No. 3. At McMillan Theater, Columbia University, NYC. Thor Johnson conducting the Columbia Symphony Orch.

1952 Death of Italian composer Italo Montemezzi in Vigasio at age 76. 

1953 Birth of American composer Cort Lippe.

1954 Death of tenor Carl Clewing.

1958 FP of John Cage's Piano Concerto, in NYC.

1960 FP of Dimitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 7. Beethoven Quartet, in Leningrad.

1972 FP of Rochberg's String Quartet No. 3. Concord Quartet at Tully Hall in NYC.

1992 FP of Stephen Paulus' Air on Seurat 'The Grand Canal' for cello and piano, at the National Cello Competition at Arizona State University in Phoeniz, AZ.

1993 FP of Steve Reich's opera The Cave at the Wiener Festspielhaus in Vienna.

2003 Death of Austrian bass-baritone Otto Edelmann

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Submitted by @madamrogers :

At first, I want to thank you for hosting an event like this! It has been so interesting to read about movies from other countries and I decided to put only Finnish movies on this list. Some of these I’ve seen, some are important or have a significant meaning for our culture or were just quite popular when they came out.

Tie pohjoiseen (Eng. Road North) 2012 - Directed by Mika Kaurismäki - Starring Vesa-Matti Loiri, Samuli Edelmann

Summary: A drama, a road movie about a father who meets his son after a long time. The father wants to bond with the son after these long 30 years and they go on a long road trip to the north.

Jenna’s Note: Vesa-Matti Loiri is one of the most iconic faces of Finnish cinema (and also music, he’s a singer as well) and he really deserves all the appreciation he gets. Him and Edelmann (who is also a singer, they sing the ending song of the film together) work very well together in this one, they have chemistry and it’s visible how much they’ve enjoyed working together. This is one of my own favorites of Finnish movies.

Lupaus (Eng. Promise) 2005 - Directed by Ilkka Vanne - Starring Laura Birn, Karoliina Vanne, Hanna Lekander, Ilkka Villi

Summary: A movie about three young women who live a normal life in Finland until Winter War in 1939. All three of the women join the Lotta Svärd, a Finnish voluntary auxiliary paramilitary organisation for women. The movie follows the women from Winter War in 1939 to Continuation War in 1941 and till the year 1956.

Jenna’s Note: I’ve seen this once and I remember I liked this quite a lot. For once there’s a movie about Lotta Svärd. I’ve always respected them a lot. This has some war scenes, if I remember right, and everyone is not making it out alive but it also shows how there can be happiness in the middle of fear and death.

Poika ja ilves (Eng. Boy and Lynx) 1998 - Directed by Raimo O Niemi - Starring Konsta Hietanen and Väinö the Lynx

Summary: A movie about a friendship between a boy and a lynx.

Jenna’s Note: I loved this movie as a child. I haven’t watched it in years, but it really is a touching story. I remember how most of the girls had some sort of a crush on this boy, Konsta Hietanen, who nowadays plays music and I think has come back to acting after playing football for years.

Joulutarina (Eng. Christmas Story) 2007 - Directed by Juha Wuolijoki - Starring Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Otto Gustavsson, Kari Väänänen, Minna Haapkylä

Summary: A story about an orphaned boy called Nikolas becoming Santa Claus.

Jenna’s Note: This is the movie I watch every Christmas. I could say it’s one of my favorite Finnish movies of all time. It also makes me cry very much, which is always a good sign. It was said somewhere that “if Walt Disney would’ve been able to tell a story like this, he would have told it,” and I think it’s absolutely true!

Äideistä parhain (Eng. Mother of Mine) 2005 - Directed by Klaus Härö - Starring Topi Marjaniemi, Marjaana Maijala, Esko Salminen

Summary: The plot of the story is based on the time of the Second World War and the main character of the story is a Finnish boy (Eero Lahti). The biological father of Eero (Kari-Pekka Toivonen) is in the Finnish army. He dies in the front and Eero’s mother Kirsti falls into deep depression. As the war gets worse, Eero is sent to Sweden to a new Swedish family. In the new family, he has a father Hjalmar Jönsson, mother Signe Jönsson and a grandfather (who cannot speak but hears everything). He also meets the neighbor’s daughter Siv. And then he has to go back to Finland when the war ends.

Jenna’s Note: I saw this one for the first time when I was quite young and I remember crying so much during it. Only seeing the add or the first minutes makes me cry. It’s a sad, momentarily very unfair story but it’s still very beautiful, touching and deep.

Prinsessa (Eng. Princess) 2010 - Directed by Arto Halonen - Starring Katja Kukkola, Samuli Edelmann, Krista Kosonen, Peter Franzén

Summary: After a difficult childhood spent in foster homes, cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen suffers from severe delusions and ends up in psychiatric care. She claims to be Princess, a member of the English royal family.

Jenna’s Note: This is a biographical film, based on a life of Anna Lappalainen, and I didn’t know this before. I like the psychology in this and it’s pretty good as a movie too, the main actress does really good job but some moments are quite disturbing. This gives me vibes of Russell Crove’s movie “A Beautiful Mind”, even though the setting is different.

Tuntematon sotilas (Eng. The Unknown Soldier) 2017 - Directed by Aku Louhimies - Starring Eero Aho, Johannes Holopainen, Jussi Vatanen, Aku Hirviniemi, Hannes Suominen, Paula Vesala, Samuli Vauramo

Summary: Based on Väinö Linna’s classic novel “The Unknown Soldier”, the part of our national legacy, the movie tells a story about a machine gun company of the Finnish Army from a frog perspective during the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1944.

Jenna’s Note: This is only one of the versions; there is the first one from 1955 and the second from 1985. And because it was Finland’s 100th year of independence last year, they made the third version. I haven’t had the chance to see this one just yet, but one of the versions is on TV on the independence day, so I’m waiting for will it be this one. This has a good cast, some very popular and good Finnish actors and this is a very liked film, so I’m looking forward to finally seeing it. I’ve seen the other two versions, and I personally like the 1985 version the best.

Helmiä ja sikoja (Eng. Pearls and Pigs) 2003 - Directed by Perttu Leppä - Starring Mikko Leppilampi, Laura Birn, Amanda Pilke

Summary: When the Hirvonen brother’s (Läde, Timo, Ruho and Poju) bootlegging father ends up in jail, his sons need money to pay his debts to local crooks. The brothers suddenly get a new family member when their stepsister, Saara, moves in with them. Soon they find out Saara has an outstanding singing voice and the boys come up with an idea to send her to a child star contest. To train the girl a former child star, a current pub rose, is employed.

Jenna’s Note: The name is funny, I know. Don’t stare at it too much. In a way it suits this movie quite well. In which the girls are the pearls and the boys the pigs, haha. This is a comedy and basically only one Finnish comedy I’ve seen and liked. I also love Mikko Leppilampi, he is a good actor, but nowadays he is mainly a host in different programs.

Tom of Finland 2017 - Directed by Dome Karukoski - Starring Pekka Strang

Summary: Touko Laaksonen returns home to Finland after serving in World War II. In post-war Helsinki, he makes a name for himself with his homoerotic drawings of muscular men. Before finding fame, Laaksonen finds challenges from his sister and Finnish society due to his art.

Jenna’s Note: I haven’t personally seen this movie yet, but decided to put it on the list since it has been sold to another countries, the concept. And I think this movie was in cinema in other countries too. It’s a quite big thing in Finland, there are all kinds of stuff about it, from bed covers to everything.

Syke (Eng. Pulse) Since 2014, still ongoing - Created by Petja Peltomaa - Starring Lena Meriläinen, Tiina Lymi, Leena Pöysti, Iina Kuustonen

Summary: A show about four nurses. In every episode there are two or three patients whose lives have something to do with the nurses’ lives; they know each other or something else. It also follows the nurses private lives: love, hate and other things.

Jenna’s Note: The only tv series of the list! I’ve watched this since it began and it’s the best Finnish show I’ve ever seen. It’s interesting, something is always happening and the actors are good. It almost got cancelled but then another channel bought it and there’ll be another season later this year, it’s the fifth.

Just made the list, thank you so much for the recs, Jenna!!