operas

Richard Wagner - Der Fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman) - 1843
The Dutchman	bass-baritone	- Tomasz Konieczny
Senta, Daland's daughter	high dramatic soprano	- Ricarda Merbeth
Daland, a Norwegian sea captain	bass - Günther Groissböck
Erik, a huntsman	tenor -	Michael Weinius
Mary, Senta's nurse   contralto - Agnes Zwierko
Daland's steersman	tenor - Thomas Atkins
Conductor - Hannu Lintu
Orchestre et Choeurs de l'Opéra National de Paris
Live recording - Opéra de la Bastille - Paris - France - October 28 2021
Illustration - Ludolf Backhuisen

Richard Wagner - Der Fliegende Hollander - Paris - 2021

Giuseppe Verdi - Rigoletto - opera in three acts (1851)
Libreto by Francesco Maria Piave
Rigoletto, the Duke's jester	baritone	Ludovic Tézier
Gilda, his daughter	soprano	Nadine Sierra
Duke of Mantua	tenor	Dmitry Korchak
Sparafucile, a murderer for hire	bass	Goderdzi Janelidze
Maddalena, his sister	contralto	Justina Gringytė
Giovanna, Gilda's Nurse	mezzo-soprano	Cassandre Berthon
Count Ceprano	bass	
Countess Ceprano, his wife	mezzo-soprano	Izabella Wnorowska-Pluchart
Matteo Borsa, a courtier	tenor	Angelo Zuliani
Count Monterone	baritone	Bogdan Talos
Marullo	baritone	Jean-Luc Ballestra
A Court Usher	bass	Pierpaolo Palloni
A Page	mezzo-soprano	Lise Nougier
Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
Conductor - Giacomo Sagripanti
Live recording - Opéra de la Bastille - Paris - France - October 29 2021
Illustration - Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen

Giuseppe Verdi - Rigoletto - Paris 2021

Gioachino Rossini - Il signor Bruschino, ossia Il figlio per azzardo (Signor Bruschino, or The Accidental Son) - one act operatic farce (farsa giocosa per musica) - 1813
Libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa
Gaudenzio - Savio Sperandio
Sofia - Lina Mendes
Bruschino padre - Saulo Javan
Bruschino figlio - Eduardo Gutierrez
Florville - Daniel Umbelino
Un delegato di polizia - Fellipe Oliveira
Filiberto - Gustavo Lassen
Marianna - Fernanda Nagashima
Orquestra do Theatro São Pedro
Regente - Claudio Cruz
Live recording - Theatro São Pedro - São Paulo, SP - Brazil - December 11 2021
Illustration - Louis Léopold Boilly

Gioachino Rossini - Il signor Bruschino - São Paulo - 2021

Giacomo Puccini - Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica) opera in one act (1918)
Libretto by Giovacchino Forzano.
Conductor - Oksana Lyniv
Suor Angelica - Serena Farnocchia
La zia principessa - Violeta Urmana
Suora zelatrice - Sarah Laulan
La badessa- Julie Bailly
La maestra delle novizie - Aurore Bureau
Suor Genovieffa - Morgane Heyse
Suor MariaUna cercatrice
Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal de Wallonie
Live recording - Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, Liège, Brussels, February 06 2022
Illustration - Carlo Maratta


Giacomo Puccini - Suor Angelica - Liège - 2021

Reynaldo Hahn - Five, from Sept Chansons Grises (1893)
Lyrics by Paul Verlaine
Chanson d'automne,
Tous deux,
L’Allée est sans fin…,
En sourdine,
L’heure exquise
Mark Padmore, tenor
Simon Lepper, Piano
Live recording - Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels, February 7, 2022
Illustration - Maurice Denis


Reynaldo Hahn - Five, from Sept Chansons Grises - Brussels - 2025

Rebecca Clarke - The seal man -  (1922)
Lyrics by  John Masefield
Mark Padmore, tenor
Simon Lepper, Piano
Live recording - Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels, February 7, 2022
Illustration - Egon Schiele - Young Saylor
The Seal Man

And he came by her cabin to the west of the road, calling.
There was a strong love came up in her at that,
and she put down her sewing on the table, and "Mother," she says,
"There's no lock, and no key, and no bolt, and no door.
There's no iron, nor no stone, nor anything at all
will keep me this night from the man I love."
And she went out into the moonlight to him,
there by the bush where the flow'rs is pretty, beyond the river.
And he says to her: "You are all of the beauty of the world,
will you come where I go, over the waves of the sea?"
And she says to him: "My treasure and my strength," she says,
"I would follow you on the frozen hills, my feet bleeding."
Then they went down into the sea together,
and the moon made a track [upon]1 the sea, and they walked down it;
it was like a flame before them. There was no fear at all on her;
only a great love like the love of the Old Ones,
that was stronger than the touch of the fool.
She had a little white throat, and little cheeks like flowers,
and she went down into the sea with her man,
who wasn't a man at all.
She was drowned, of course.
It's like he never thought that she wouldn't bear the sea like himself.
She was drowned, drowned.

O Homem-Foca


E ele veio até a cabana dela a oeste da estrada, chamando.
Um amor forte surgiu nela então,
e ela deixou a costura sobre a mesa e disse: "Mãe,
não há tranca, nem chave, nem ferrolho, nem porta.
Não há ferro, nem pedra, nem nada, absolutamente nada
que me impeça esta noite de ir ao homem que amo."

E ela saiu para ele sob o luar,
lá pelo arbusto onde as flores são bonitas, além do rio.
E ele lhe disse: "Você é toda a beleza do mundo,
virá comigo, sobre as ondas do mar?"
E ela lhe respondeu: "Meu tesouro e minha força," disse ela,
"eu te seguiria até nas colinas geladas, com meus pés sangrando."

Então, desceram juntos para o mar,
e a Lua fez um caminho sobre as águas, e eles o percorreram;
era como uma chama diante deles. Não havia medo nela,
apenas um amor imenso, como o amor dos Antigos,
mais forte que o toque do tolo.

Ela tinha um pescoço branco e delicado, faces como flores,
e desceu para o mar com seu homem,
que não era um homem de verdade.
Ela se afogou, é claro.
Parece que ele nunca pensou que ela não suportaria o mar como ele.
Ela se afogou, afogou-se.

Rebecca Clarke - The seal man - Brussels 2025

Antonio Carlos Gomes - O ciel di Parahyba, from Lo schiavo (1889)
Suzy Amaral - soprano 
Luciana Simões - piano
Live recording - Teatro Sergio Cardoso. São Paulo, SP, Brazil - March 28, 2022
Illustration - Paraíba river - Ederaldo Paulini

Antonio Carlos Gomes - O ciel di Parahyba, from Lo schiavo - São Paulo - 2022

Richard Wagner - O du, mein holder, from Tannhäuser (1889)
Isaque Oliveira - bariton
Luciana Simões - piano
Live recording - Teatro Sergio Cardoso. São Paulo, SP, Brazil - March 28, 2022
Illustration - Caspar David Friedrich

Richard Wagner - O du, mein holder, from Tannhäuser-  São Paulo - 2022 -

Jacques Offenbach - Scintille diamant, from Les contes d'Hoffmann (1875/1904)
Isaque Oliveira - bariton
Luciana Simões - piano
Live recording - Teatro Sergio Cardoso. São Paulo, SP, Brazil - March 28, 2022
Illustration - Vintage cluster of diamonds

Jacques Offenbach - Scintille diamant, from Les contes d'Hoffmann - São Paulo - 2022

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Dove sono, from Le nozze di Figaro (1786)
Higla Noel - Soprano
Luciana Simões - piano
Live recording - Teatro Sergio Cardoso. São Paulo, SP, Brazil - March 28, 2022
Illustration - Antoine Watteau - Sanguine

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Dove sono, from Le nozze di Figaro - São Paulo - 2025 -

Georges Bizet - Habanera, from Carmen (1875)
Lyrics by Henri Meilhac e Ludovic Halévy
Luciana Simões - Mezzo-soprano
Luciana Simões - piano
Live recording - Teatro Sergio Cardoso. São Paulo, SP, Brazil - March 28, 2022
Illustration - Eugène Giraud - Spanish woman

Georges Bizet - Habanera, from Carmen - São Paulo - 2025

Manuel Fernández Caballero - Balada y Alborada, from El Senor Joaquin (1898)
Lyrics by Julián Romea Parra
Luciana Simões - Mezzo-soprano
Luciana Simões - piano
Live recording - Teatro Sergio Cardoso. São Paulo, SP, Brazil - March 28, 2022
Illustration - Eduardo Rosales Gallinas - Spanish landscape

Manuel Fernández Caballero - Balada y Alborada, from El Senor Joaquin -São Paulo - 2025

Giacomo Puccini - Quando m'en vo, from La Bohème - 1896
Lyrics by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
Elisa Furtado - soprano
Luciana Simões - piano
Live recording - Teatro Sergio Cardoso. São Paulo, SP, Brazil - March 28, 2022
Illustration - Fashion Plate Of A Lady In Evening Dress, Advertisement From Modes De Paris,1825

Giacomo Puccini - Quando m'en vo, from La Bohème - São Paulo - 2025

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Solitudini amiche, from Idomeneo - 1781
Lyrics by Giambattista Varesco
Elisa Furtado - soprano
Luciana Simões - piano
Live recording - Teatro Sergio Cardoso. São Paulo, SP, Brazil - March 28, 2022
Illustration - Hubert Robert

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Solitudini amiche, from Idomeneo - São Paulo - 2025 -

Stanisław Moniuszko - Szumia jodly, from Halka - 1854
Lyrics by Włodzimierz Wolski
Vitorio Scarpi - tenor
Daniel Gonçalves - piano
Live recording - Teatro Sergio Cardoso. São Paulo, SP, Brazil - March 28, 2022
Illustration - Dan McGregor - Summer sketchbook: view from our balcony, Zakopane, Poland.

Stanisław Moniuszko - Szumia jodly, from Halka - São Paulo - 2025 -

Antonio Carlos Gomes - Fosca - 1873/75
Live recording - Theatro Municipal de São Paulo - April 28 1996
Fosca - Gail Gilmore
Paolo -  Roumen Doykov
Delia - Krassimira Stoyanova
Cambro - Niko Issakov
Gajolo - Svetovar Ranguelov
Doge - Soil Georguiev
Michele - Peter Bakardzhiev
Sophia National Opera Orchestra
Conductor - Luiz Fernando Malheiro
Sophia National Opera Choir - Choirmaster Violeta Tontcheva
Illustration - Gustave Moreau

Rebecca Clarke - The seal man - Brussels 2025

Jorge Coli

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