Opera Bubbles

Hey, opera lovers! I’ve been spending a lot of time reading books recently. And I missed it very much as I had not been reading for about a year! Yeah…that’s a bad thing. There was always a lot of stuff I needed or wanted to do that books turned out to be at the bottom of the wish list! And my book comeback gave an idea to write a post about «opera books». We know that maybe a half of operas is based on this or that novel. But I’d like to tell you about, so to say, unknown books which inspired famous composers to create their masterpieces. And they are «Carmen» by Prosper Mérimée , «Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre» («Don Juan or The Feast with the Statue») by Jean-Baptiste Molière and «Scènes de la vie de bohème» (« Scenes from the life of Bohemia ») by Henri Murger. (Oh! I’ve just noticed that they are all French!:)). 

Hi, guys! What's new? Unfortunately, summer is coming to an end but...I hope operafans don't get upset about it!:). As we know autumn is harvest time and the operaworld will also bear us a lot of fruit by releasing a bunch of new recordings!!! So be ready to spend your money, time but mostly ENJOY new music, opera productions and amazing singers! As there will be a huge amount of new different things, I'm gonna tell you about upcoming CDs and DVDs separately. Let's start with DVDs/Blu-Rays! September 1 – R. Strauss «Arabella» by C Major Salzburg Easter Festival, 2014 Renée Fleming ,  Thomas Hampson ,  Albert Dohmen ,  Gabriela Beňačková , Hanna-Elisabeth Müller Staatskapelle Dresden  & Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden,  Christian Thielemann Staged by Florentine Klepper

I’ve been thinking about writing this post for a long time and finally I’ve made it! I’d like to present you a pretty short list of my favorite operas! Actually, it was hard to pick few of many, many candidates so…in advance I want to clear it out that the chosen ones were just the most striking things that came to my mind! It’s like to choose a favorite movie or a song! Tough!!!! You may ask why I’m doing all of this if it’s so impossible for me! I just hope that my blog will arouse your interest in these masterpieces I’ve picked. Maybe some of them you know but haven’t had time to listen or watch them or you didn’t even think such pieces existed. Well, it seems to me this is gonna be an informative and entertaining post for you, guys!!!

It’s almost the end of the year!!! OMG!!! Time flies like a bee! Actually, I haven’t been posting anything for some time cause I had too many things to do or to think about so… the whole writing process was going vEry slooowww… Having read some posts of other good bloggers I’ve become inspired a lot by them and the whole idea of just sitting and summing up all good opera memories I’ve had this year. So… here I want to present you my, let’s call it, OperaBubbles Awards! My list of all «besties» is divided into several categories. My choice of winners is based only on my personal XP, on what I’ve seen or heard or attended this year.