Showing posts with label Kiri te Kanawa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kiri te Kanawa. Show all posts

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Because it is summer...

..., because this work stands closer to perfection than any other opera will, because this was the opera I saw on my first visit to the Salzburg Festival (I chose it over Boulez conducting Moses und Aron: unwise, perhaps, but understandable, I hope), because one has not heard Mozart until one has heard it played by this orchestra, and because this film was the first opera I owned on video, a birthday present from my music teacher...: