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Manifestor_of_Light

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16. I agree with you about the greatness of DG and Marriage of Figaro.

Wed Feb 17, 2016, 01:54 PM

Feb 2016

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Both amazing. Different in plot, though both were subject to censorship because they showed the aristocracy (Don Giovanni and Count Almaviva) in an unflattering light as skirt chasers.

Samuel Ramey is awesome. I've seen him in Susanna, Mefistofeles, and Attila. Don Giovanni and Leporello are both baritones, but Sam decided to be a hybrid bass-baritone somewhere along the way. He escaped from Colby, Kansas. Sometimes he's kinda stiff but he's usually quite good.

I saw Sir Thomas Allen many years ago (1991-bicentennial of Mozart's death) in Don Giovanni. He went through a trapdoor into hell and it was fabulous.

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