Comments on: Getting Cosi With Opera http://www.rapp.org/archives/2004/01/getting_cosi_with_opera/ "Come fly with me, let's take off in the blue..." Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:43:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: "aunt" betty" http://www.rapp.org/archives/2004/01/getting_cosi_with_opera/comment-page-1/#comment-143 "aunt" betty" Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.rapp.org/archives/2004/01/getting_cosi_with_opera/#comment-143 i wish that w were closer to orange county. i would love to be able to come to see and hear you in the operas. it's funny that your great grandfather ws a real fan of the opera. i remember listening to all the great opera stars on records and the radio, when i was growing up. we had recordings of caruso and gallicurci. i'm sure that there were more but those stuck out in my mind. i suppose that it is true, music transends generations and the world. love, "aunt" betty i wish that w were closer to orange county. i would love to be able to come to see and hear you in the operas. it’s funny that your great grandfather ws a real fan of the opera. i remember listening to all the great opera stars on records and the radio, when i was growing up. we had recordings of caruso and gallicurci. i’m sure that there were more but those stuck out in my mind. i suppose that it is true, music transends generations and the world.

love,
“aunt” betty

]]> By: Horace Anderson http://www.rapp.org/archives/2004/01/getting_cosi_with_opera/comment-page-1/#comment-144 Horace Anderson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.rapp.org/archives/2004/01/getting_cosi_with_opera/#comment-144 I have never Seen Cosi, but loved the recording in English by Ruth and Thomas Martin. I don't feel that old, but I knew the woman who was Puccini's choice to sing Tourandot. Her name was Rosa Raiesa, and I don't know if she sang the title character or Liu, but Puccini approached her and said, "your my gal". When I knew her she was teaching voice in Chicago and was quite senior. Don't mean to be an "Aunt Blabby" but I used to soup with the Met when they came to town. Saw John Vickers as Peter Grimes and now live in the town where Britain lived when he wrote it, Escondido Californial. He and Peter Pears for whom he wrote it were dodging the draft and moved from England, and my little town was as remote as they could fine. Fiction and Fact from Horaces alminac. I have never Seen Cosi, but loved the recording in English by Ruth and Thomas Martin. I don’t feel that old, but I knew the woman who was Puccini’s choice to sing Tourandot. Her name was Rosa Raiesa, and I don’t know if she sang the title character or Liu, but Puccini approached her and said, “your my gal”. When I knew her she was teaching voice in Chicago and was quite senior. Don’t mean to be an “Aunt Blabby” but I used to soup with the Met when they came to town.
Saw John Vickers as Peter Grimes and now live in the town where Britain lived when he wrote it, Escondido Californial. He and Peter Pears for whom he wrote it were dodging the draft and moved from England, and my little town was as remote as they could fine. Fiction and Fact from Horaces alminac.

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