It seems they both played active roles in the women’s suffrage movement in the second half of the 19th century, so why is Anthony the name that comes to mind instead of both women? From what I understand, they both had significant contribution, especially the Seneca Falls Convention / Declaration of the Sentiments. Does anyone have an inkling as to why Anthony is more well known, despite the women making a great team together?
Rochester *food deserts
Link: https://my.mail.ru/video/embed/1103528822357305825
Libretto: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18iS0GIVJvBYXf7-RmHD_7aZoVMSf84wz/view?usp=sharing
For the last day of Underrated tenors week, we have Offenbach's masterpiece, Les contes d'Hofmann. An operetta composer for most of his life, doing this work was a challenge for him, but he managed to pull off one of the best operas ever. It's a shame he didn't see the success of this master work, he died four month prior to the premiere. Unfortunately, there were a lot of things in the opera that were still pending when the composer died, so there has always been some uncertainty within the opera community about how Offenbach planned his opera to be. For example, until the late 80s the order of the acts was performed wrongly (Olympia-Giulietta-Antonia), but fourtunately musicologists and hitorians have been doing their best to recreate what Offenbach wanted, so now we know, among other things that the order of the opera is Olympia-Antonia-Giulietta.
The tenor this final day is no other than Neil Shicoff, an amazing voice with a very diverse repertoire. He excels at French opera, at Italian opera, at contemporary opera, Russian opera and so on. A very compelling actor too, his performances are definitely a good watch always.
This performance is from the Met (with the wrong Act order), in which the three ladies are played by Gwendolyn Brandley, Roberta Alexander and Tatiana Troyanos. James Morris has the chance to do all four villians along Anothony Laciura, who plays all of his minions. Susan Quittmeyer completes a brilliant cast led by the wonderul Charles Dutoit.
So, that's it! Hope you enjoyed this week!
