Friday, August 22, 2014

An Operatic Duet

By no means am I an opera buff but Vincenzo Bellini's "Miro O Norma" sung by mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne and soprano Joan Sutherland in this 1970 recording on Youtube is worth a listen [1].  While the kind of love alluded to in this song [2] does not quite parallel the spousal or motherly love set forth in my last post, it is nonetheless love.


[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STtwkh1rAA.  Other parings for this duet include:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ANM5_ur5k beginning at 3:50 (Renata Scotto and Tatiana Troyano),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zZBeDWvYXo (Cecilia Bartoli and Sumi Jo) and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGIKcc6HiNw (Anna Netrebko and Elīna Garanča)
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_%28opera%29

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