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Music Selections:
Zefiro Torna by Claudio Monteverdi
Nuria Rial, soprano & Philippe Jaroussky, counter-tenor, l’Arpeggiata
[Studio Recording – Published February 2009]
n°2. Le spectre de la rose, from Nuits d’été by Hector Berlioz
Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano, Danish Radio Symphonic Orchestra. Conductor – Herbert Blomstedt
[Recorded live March 9, 1972]
Ain’t it a pretty night, from Susannah by Carlisle Floyd
Phyllis Curtin, soprano
[Recorded live, March 31, 1962]
Wine Selections:
2012 Saintsbury Carneros Vin Gris of Pinot Noir
2014 Jean-Luc Colombo Cape Bleue Rose
For those of you that are interested – and don’t mind suffering through A LOT of distortion, due to the lack of preservation of the recording, here’s a Link to Complete Euegne Onegin, Letter Scene Clip – Recorded March 22, 1980; Soprano – Heather Thompson