Auto accidents, Car accidents, Truck accidents, Motorcycle accidents are all happening around us. We try to drive our vehicles as carefully as possible but it is always the other drivers' that we have to worry about - right?
How else can we cope with the potential of an accident. Being aware of everything around you when you drive and not be distracted by cell phones, dvd players, gps systems etc. Of, course its easy for me to say all of this, but you know that what I'm writing is true.
Get rid of the distraction and the concentratoin is more on driving, and then being able to deal more speedily with the other driver's bad driving.
Natalie sings the virtuoso "Où va la jeune hindoue..." from Delibes'"Lakmé". In France, we call this aria "air des clochettes"...
Just enjoy this incredible agility & subtility...
On February 28th, Philippe Jaroussky sings a Vivaldi aria, with that angelic & amzing voice.
Later on that evening, he is awarded 2007 best French lyrical artist.
Roberto Alagna is just wonderful as Rodolfo in this production of Puccini's "La Bohême", opposite Leontina Vaduva as Mimi.
Conductor : James Conlon / Stage director : Jonathan Miller
Recorded in December 1995 - Paris, Opera Bastille
Roberto Alagna & Bryn Terfel sing the beautiful duet "Au fond du temple saint" from Bizet's "Les Pêcheurs de perles"... (Met 1996)
Beautiful singinf... and visually funny (big Terfel vs little Alagna)
Roberto Alagna sings "La Marseilaise", France hymn, music arranged by Berlioz.
Not the best song (especially the lyrics, OMG)Alagna's engagement is really good I think, his singing, if not perfect, is really convincing.
In 1996, French TV dedicated a show to the charming Jennifer...
Here's a "glamour" clip from Haendel's "Xerxes"
I left the end of the show that followed : Jennifer speaks a rather fluent French...
Roberto Alagna recording "La Donna è mobile" from Verdi's Rigoletto, in 1994.
One of the best Duca of Mantova I've ever heard (probably not in this video... he was much better on stage at Orange in 1995 !). Nevertheles, enjoy... His spelling is wonderfl either in english or french.
The late & wonderful british soprano Susan Chilcott sings Fiordiligi's first aria from Mozrt's "Cosi fan tutte'.
Given in 1996 for the reopening if Paris Opera Garnier
From a wonderful "Le Nozze di Figaro" conducted by Georg Solti at Paris Opera Garnier in 1980.
The very famous stage production by Giorgio Strelher.
Fabulous cast : Jose Van Dam (Figaro), Lucia Popp (Susanna), Gundula Janowitz (Contessa Almaviva), Gabriel Bacquier (Almaviva), Federica Von Stade (Cherubino), Jane Berbié (Marcellina).