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

Samuel Barber - Bessie Bobtail, from Three Songs , Op. 2, nº 3. (1934)
Lyrics by James Stephens
Mark Padmore, tenor
Simon Lepper, Piano
Live recording - Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels, February 7, 2022
Illustration - Chaïm Soutine, Mad woman

Bessie Bobtail
by James Stephens

As down the road she wambled slow,
She had not got a place to go:
She had not got a place to fall
And rest herself – no place at all!
She stumped along, and wagged her pate;
And said a thing was deperate.

Her face was screwed and wrinkled tight
Just like a nut – and, left and right,
On either side, she wagged her head
And said a thing; and what she said
Was desperate as any word
That ever yet a person heard.

I walked behind her for a while,
And watched the people nudge and smile:
But ever, as she went, she said,
As left and right she swung her head,
“O God He knows: And, God He knows!
And, surely God Almighty knows!”
Bessie Bobtail
por James Stephens

Enquanto pela estrada ela cambaleava devagar,
Não tinha um lugar para onde ir:
Não tinha um lugar para cair
E descansar – nenhum lugar!
Ela arrastava os pés e balançava a cabeça;
E dizia uma coisa desesperada.

Seu rosto era torcido e enrugado, apertado
Como uma noz – e, para a esquerda e direita,
De um lado a outro, sacudia a cabeça
E dizia algo; e o que dizia
Era tão desesperador quanto qualquer palavra
Que alguém já ouviu.

Caminhei atrás dela por um tempo,
E vi as pessoas cutucarem e sorrirem:
Mas sempre, enquanto andava, ela dizia,
Enquanto balançava a cabeça para os lados,
“Oh, Deus sabe! E, Deus sabe!
E, com certeza, Deus Todo-Poderoso sabe!”


Samuel Barber - Bessie Bobtail, from Three Songs - 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

Samuel Barber - Bessie Bobtail, from Three Songs - Brussels - 2025

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