Madonna Live in London! (OK! i know it's irrelevant but i really enjoyed this concert!)

hi all!

Madonna live in London as telecast on Wednesday 22, November!
2 MP3, perfect sound, at 192 kbps

http://rapidshare.com/files/4580474/MADONNA_-_CONFESSIONS_CONCERT_-_01.mp3
(80 MB)
http://rapidshare.com/files/4574991/MADONNA_-_CONFESSIONS_CONCERT_-_02.mp3
(40 MB)

Enjoy

Parsifal Domingo/Baltsa/Grundheber/Salminen Madrid 2001

Parsifal Domingo/Baltsa/Grundheber/Salminen Madrid 2001

HAAAAAAPPY BIRTHDAY AGNES!
Agnes Baltsa turns 62 today (19th of November 1944 in the greek island of Lefkas) and this one, is her debut as Kundry in Madrid in 2001. Kundry is not really her role but i always enjoy her, singing new stuff. I ve been desperately looking for one of her Klytemnestra but havent located any till today...anybody that has an Elektra with Agnes and is willing to share????
ps. This is a complete recording of the premiere, not the abridged versions of the on-line stores.
Very good in-house recording

Parsifal
3rd of march 2001
Cond: Antonio García Navarro
Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid
Coro de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid

Amfortas - Franz Grundheber
Titurel - Artur Korn
Gurnemanz - Matti Salminen
Parsifal - Plácido Domingo
Klingsor - Hartmut Welker
Kundry - Agnes Baltsa

Paloma Pérez Íñigo, Itxaro Mentxaka,
Emilio Sánchez, Julio Morales
Flower Maidens: Elena de la Merced, María José Martos,
Mireia Pintó, María Rey-Joly, Itxaro Mentxaka
A voice - Mireia Pintó

http://rapidshare.com/files/3868752/ParsifalMadrid2001.rar.001

http://rapidshare.com/files/3886656/ParsifalMadrid2001.rar.002

http://rapidshare.com/files/3900357/ParsifalMadrid2001.rar.003

http://rapidshare.com/files/3933534/ParsifalMadrid2001.rar.004

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Samson&Dalila, Domingo/Baltsa/Fondary

Samson&Dalila, Domingo/Baltsa/Fondary
1990 December 22
Regie: Gotz Friedrich
Dirigent: Georges Pretre
Dalila: Agnes Baltsa
Samson: Placido Domingo
Grand Pretre de Dagon: Alain Fondary
Abimelech: Claudio Otelli
Vieux Hebreux: Hakan Aysev

http://rapidshare.com/files/4005400/SamsonBaltsaDDomingoCD1.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/4073189/SamsonBaltsaDDomingoCD2.rar

Un Ballo In Maschera

Hi all!
this is a Ballo recorded by a friend. It's in-house in perfect sound
and a very good performance indeed...

Un Ballo In Maschera
Riccardo: Ramon Vargas
Renato: Carlo Guelfi
Amelia: Andrea Gruber
Ulrica: Mariana Pentcheva
Oscar: Cinzia Forte
Tom: Carlo di Cristoforo
Sam: Manrico Signorini
Silvano: Paolo Orecchia
Un giudice: Stefano Consolini
Un servo d Amelia: Gianluca Ricci
Orchestra e coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Direttore: Daniele Gatti
Maestro del coro: Gea Garatti

Bologna 19 January 2003

http://rapidshare.com/files/4265055/BalloBologna2003.rar.001

http://rapidshare.com/files/4276953/BalloBologna2003.rar.002

Don Carlo, Baltsa, Ramey, Ricciarelli, O Neil

Here s an in-house Carlo from the ROH of Covent Garden. 10 years after the 1979 Eboli, Baltsa's resources for this role are less but the intensity and drama are amazing, so is the singing. This is one of Agnes' last Ebolis.

Next to Agnes, an excellent Samuel Ramey (well, i always find him excellent actually), a rather dull Dennis O Neil and Katia Ricciarelli past her prime but still quite good.

In-house recording. Sound variable. For an in-house its good. Some bars of music missing, especially at the beggining of the acts/scenes (not always). 5 Acts version

Don Carlo

London, 3 April 1989

Elisabetta Katia Ricciarelli

Eboli Agnes Baltsa

Don Carlo Dennis O’Neill

Rodrigo Gino Quilico

Filippo Samuel Ramey

Cond: Giuseppe Patane

http://rapidshare.com/files/3695274/DonCarloROH1989.rar.001

http://rapidshare.com/files/3716302/DonCarloROH1989.rar.002

http://rapidshare.com/files/3722771/DonCarloROH1989.rar.003

Use HJsplit to join the files. ripped at 192 kbps. Tracked. Tags NOT Greek.

Italiana in Algeri Baltsa-Lopardo-Raimondi Claudio Abbado

A few days before my beloved Agnes' birthday (on November the 19th she turns 62!) i begin this personal Agnes Baltsa Festival! I m gonna be uploading a rare or less rare Baltsa recording everyday till the 19th! Today, it is my all time favourite Italiana in Algeri. A most amazing performance, and i mean it, sooooo much energy, so humorous, so sexy! Its the radio broadcast of the original Jean Pierre Ponnelle performance and its a looooot better than the Deutsche Grammophon recording.

Here s the cast:

Isabella - Agnes Baltsa
Lindoro: Frank Lopardo
Mustafa: Ruggiero Raimondi
Taddeo: Enzo Dara
Elvira: Patricia Pace

Claudio Abbado
Vienna 28 September 1987

http://rapidshare.com/files/3184930/ItalianaBaltsa1987-1.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/3193994/ItalianaBaltsa1987-2.rar

Enjoy!

Il Trovatore Baltsa/Studer

This is a performance that someone should own mainly for two reasons: The very rare and absolutely haunting performance of Baltsa as Azzucena (i think it was the only Azuccena she ever sang, or one of the very few) is the first reason. The second, is the incredible reception of the public towards Friedrich Kalt and Cheryl Studer! You wont believe your ears....the Booing is so loud for both especially after the Pira and D'amor sull ali rosee. And of course the public is divided into booers and fans who wont stop argue after Studer's rendition of the aria...I wouldnt
like to be in her position....Well the fact is that she doesnt sing well but its not THAT bad...(as i read in a magazine lately, the reaction of the public was actually due to the production of the
opera.In a bombed Sarajevo-like stage the singers wearing very ugly clothes- Baltsa agreed to wear the clothes but didnt accept to have not even one foto taken...)

Here is the cast:

Il Trovatore

Leonora: Cheryl Studer
Manrico: Friedrich Kalt
Azzucena: Agnes Baltsa
Di Luna: Sergei Leiferkus
Ferrando: Kurt Rydl
Ines: Ruxandra Donose
Zubin Mehta
Vienna Staatsoper, 22 October 1993

http://rapidshare.com/files/2610083/Trovatore1Vienna93.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/3174259/Trovatore2Vienna93.rar

Salome, Behrens, Baltsa, LIVE Salzburg 1978

SALOME BEHRENS/BALTSA/VAN DAM KARAJAN LIVE SALZBURG 1978

SALOME
Conductor Herbert von Karajan
Stage director Herbert von Karajan
Stage sets Günther Schneider-Siemssen
Costumes Georges Wakhevitch
Choreography Heidrun Schwaarz

Herodes Karl Walter Böhm
Herodias Agnes Baltsa
Salome Hildegard Behrens
Jochanaan José van Dam
Narraboth Wieslav Ochman
Page Rohangiz Yachmi
Slave Horst Nitsche
1st Jew Gerhard Stolze
2st Jew Horst Nitsche
3st Jew Martin Vantin
4st Jew Gerhard Unger
5st Jew Erich Kunz
1st Narazener Jules Bastin
2st Narazener Dieter Ellenbeck
1st Soldier Gerd Nienstedt
2st Soldier Kurt Rydl
Cappadocier Helge von Bömches
Vienna Philharmonic
Salzburg 16 August 1978

http://rapidshare.com/files/3257221/SalomeSalz1978.rar.001

http://rapidshare.com/files/3261642/SalomeSalz1978.rar.002

Requiem - Mozart - Karajan - TomowaSintow, Baltsa, Krenn, Van Dam

hi all!
this is one of the famous Requiem that this, selected by the great Herbert group of singers, sang in New York in 1976. All these amazing singers that Karajan was obsessed with and wouldnt replace easily. (In his words: "Toscanini never had access to a voice like hers - she can hit C sharp at nine o'clock in the morning."-for Anna Tomowa-Sintow) These performances have never been broadcast and they re quite rare.

Requiem
W.A. Mozart
Tomowa-Sintow
Baltsa
Krenn
Van Dam

BPO - Herbert Von Karajan
New York 15 November 1976

http://rapidshare.com/files/3358445/RequiemSalzburgNY76.rar

(I dont know why i wrote salzburg AND NY....It s some kind of a
reflex, when i think of Karajan)