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michael2301 31 Jan 2008 at 7:27pm (Report this message) It's an interesting question, which I thought might stimulate some conversation. |
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LorisIpanoff 13 Mar 2008 at 12:44am (Report this message) Age 7 - my mother had a highlights record of Boris Godunov with Boris Christoff singing, with a very dramatic purple cover, when I read the synopsis and found it was all about a murdered child, I was hooked. Then I asked to hear it, and the first track was the Coronation Scene with all the bells - I could'nt believe music could be so powerful. I wore the record out and never looked back. |
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smitty 27 Jun 2008 at 9:01pm (Report this message) i came to opera thru a music appreciation course in college. she said anyone who liked tchaikovsky would probably enjoy puccini. she let me borrow recordings of boheme and butterfly and i was hooked. the first actual performance i saw was boheme with a traveling company in an outdoor theatre. in 1976 six of the great opera companies of the world came to kennedy center in d.c. and i saw boris, faust, tosca and three others, it was an opera lovers dream come true. i owe opera a debt i cannot repay. thank god for dvds! |
