Three Baritones
Puccini – Tosca – Te Deum – Bryn Terfel and his crazy eyes as Scarpia (1998)
Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov - Coronation – Aleksandr Pirogov as Boris (1947)
Bizet – Carmen – Toreador Song – Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Escamillo (2006?) The performance was for a British audience, if you’re wondering about the Union Jack.
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For I Will Consider My Cat, Geoffrey
March 9, 2009, 12:00 am
Filed under: music
Filed under: music
The background music to this, uh, video of a cat is “For I will consider my cat, Geoffrey,” a movement for solo soprano from Benjamin Britten’s choral work Rejoice in the Lamb. Rejoice in the Lamb is a setting of Jubilate Agno, a poem by Christopher Smart, about whom my favorite fact is that he spent a decent chunk of his life as a denizen of Mr. Potter’s Madhouse. Feel free to peruse the full text of Rejoice in the Lamb.
