Administrative note: I updated the lists of vilaines filles and mauvais garçons last weekend, then noticed that I inadvertently had dropped a few sites. I think that I now link to everyone who links to me. If I've overlooked you, please let me know.
Given all the moaning about the dearth of opera on terrestrial radio, I've decided to offer highlights of weekend webcasts, which you can access via Operacast.com, one of vilaine fille's very favorite sites. Here is a *sampling* of what you can hear this weekend:
Two performances of Massenet's Le Jongleur de Notre Dame: one from 1978 starring Alain Vanzo, and a recent "live" performance featuring vilaine fille coqueluche (vfc) Gaëtan Laperrière
Carmen, starring the luscious Rinat Shaham (profile here), with Richard Bernstein as Escamillo, Bernard Labadie conducting
La Scala's 2004 opening night: Salieri's L'Europa riconosciuta, conducted by Riccardo Muti, featuring vfc Giuseppe Sabbatini
Classic studio recordings of Verdi's Ernani (Bergonzi, Price) and Macbeth (led by Muti)
Poul Ruders' The Handmaid's Tale, based on the Margaret Atwood novel that, sadly, rings ever more true
Again, point your browser to Operacast.com, and go to town.
Now, can one of you kind souls tell the technologically challenged vilaine fille how to record a webcast? (I use a Mac, bien sûr.)
And, yes, vilaine fille scrupulously avoids the sun and favors summer attire of the kind shown above!
Audion is just an mp3 player/converter - and most webcasts aren't mp3 streams anyway, so an mp3 recorder isn't even what you want. You want a Mac stream ripper like wiretap or audiohijack.
Posted by: Niall | 07 June 2005 at 05:19
Now, can one of you kind souls tell the technologically challenged vilaine fille how to record a webcast? (I use a Mac, bien sûr.)
http://www.panic.com/audion/
this appears to be an mp3 recorder for the mac........as i use a pc perhaps a mac person might advise you best on the capabilities of AUDION
norm
Posted by: norm | 04 June 2005 at 04:53