opera

yeah pretty near the very top

it’s called the family circle for some reason.

Suggestions please, for a project: symphonic opera bangers with choir, rather than solo voices. Pieces that would be sample-friendly, in the manner of say these?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_a2pfwKjIY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AasJhhjpK4
(famously sampled by Big Boi of course)

I don't mean to dodge the question, I just came here to say Leontyne Price (^^^) is 95 years old today. Happy Birthday!!

Happy Birthday!

Question is so broad, hard to pick one.

Random thing that pops in my head is something from Eugene Onegin. Maybe this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6jhnNk3U9U
perhaps starting from the 2:40 mark? Maybe not banging enough for you.

Borodin - Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor
The banger starts at about 3:50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqKclPhsK0o

Wagner - Sailors' Chorus from Der Fliegende Hollander
Chorus enters at about the minute mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Ae1aUXANY

Verdi - Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore
Literal banging at 1:15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZN01_pAxro

Ha! This last was the most obvious choice

can somebody help me with a curious opera-related discrepancy? lately i've been listening to this rossini recording:

https://www.discogs.com/release/2836006-Rossini-Erich-LeinsdorfMetropolitan-Opera-And-Chorus-The-Barber-Of-Seville

and i was hoping to read the (italian) libretto along with what i was hearing. unfortunately i've misplaced the libretto that originally came with this box set. so i turned to the internet. the specific portion i wanted to track down is the last side of the last disc in the box: it's labeled "Act III (concl.)" so that's what i look for. well, it turns out that everywhere else on the internet specifies that "the barber of seville" is an opera in TWO acts!

does anybody know what's going on here?

There's another opera with the same title by Giovanni Paisiello, apparently?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Barber_of_Seville_(Paisiello)

In popular culture
The Count's serenade "Saper bramate" is used in Stanley Kubrick's period film Barry Lyndon.[citation needed]

Just got out of much ballyhooed production of AKHNATEN at The Met. Philip Glass came out and took a bow.

Not a repetitive series of bows lasting 58 minutes?

Ha, no. Just one or two.

https://playbill.com/article/countertenor-anthony-roth-costanzo-on-the-transformative-nature-of-philip-glass-akhnaten

Interview with Nerfertiti, Rihab Chaieb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsFc4PTLY7s

Dima highlight reel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgetLghpOCc

A Renée/Dmitri duet just showed up in my Friday algorithm. Still missing that guy.