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Let's talk choral music.
Redball:
I don't know much about Debussy and choral music -- Nuages? Is there women's chorus there? But I downloaded the La Damoiselle élue with Dessay in the starring role. I've seen her in a couple of Met Live in HD productions; she's also a good actress.
It does sound like the women were abused in that rehearsal schedule.
The Wagner sounds like the Schoenberg Gurre Lieder I mentioned: The music, written in the 19-oughts, was very Wagner-like. There were five or six soloists including a "Sprecher", and the men were divided into three four-part choruses. The women sang only in the last SSAATTBB section, for just a few minutes.
I can see how Carmina Burana would be easy to get wrong, but my experience with was a happy one, from 1971 when I first heard/rehearsed it to 2007 when I did it as a baritone. Only the one bad performance.
Akima:
Did you sing the entire Carmina Burana cantata (I think that is the correct term?), or just "O Fortuna"?
Redball:
Oh, the whole thing. I don't think I ever sang O Fortuna by itself, and I don't much care for it. I've considered myself a kind of marginal tenor, now a marginal baritone, though I've been on a stage with the Phila Symphony, Antal Dorati, Neeme Järvi and Luciano Pavarotti. But I felt like a Carmina specialist, even to nailing the strange accents in the guy's drinking song, In Taberna.
Barmymoo:
I'm singing in a small informal chorus for the choir college's Christmas concert, and we had a rehearsal the other day. My throat was so sore that I discovered I had bottom Cs (as in two octaves below middle C - I was singing the bass part sometimes). I normally only just have bottom Fs, so that was quite amusing.
Redball:
I wonder if i can hit that note. I'll try at rehearsal tonight. I don't think I can.
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