Long time no chat (can't remember when Bezos canned the communication on amazon.co.uk).
Your recommendations and guidance on building my Wagner collection were most excellent.
I don't really have a comment on your topic except that I'm listening to a lot of Italian opera these days - pretty much anyone whose surname ends in i.
It does seem like a lot of Shakespeare is interwoven into much opera..
I found your "“Untouchable” and ”Most Recommendable” Opera Recordings" and I agree with your views on what I have got in my collection so far. The good ones but also the couple of duds I bought without your steer!
Hope you're well and safe.
Very best wishes.
H
Simon Thompson's comment in his review of the Nott symphonic arrangement of Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande set me thinking:
"It’s hard to think of any single play that has had a more profound impact on musicians than Pelléas et Mélisande ."
While I don't necessarily disagree with him, I wonder whether Romeo and Juliet might be another candidate, given that Berlioz, Bellini, Tchaikovsky, Gounod, Prokofiev, Bernstein and Nino Rota all found inspiration in it. Shakespeare in general has of course been set to music by so many composers in so many genres.
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