Join: Dec 21, 2007
Name: leoperarm
Gender: Male
Location: HN
Videos Watched: 8446
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Books: 20.000 leagues Under the Sea, Don Quijote de la Mancha, Around the Moon, The Mysterious Island, Michael Srtogoff (lots of Verne LOL), The island of Dr. Moreau, The Time Machine...
Music: OPERA!!! Mozart, Rossini and Verdi are my favorites. Symphonies, pan flute, Edith Piaf, bagpipe music...
Hobbies: Opera, reading a book, cooking, fishing, playing the flute, studying, watching films, using Youtube, painting, being at museums, I love History...
I'm an opera fan.My favorite composers: W.A. Mozart, Gioachino Rossini, Vicenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti and Giuseppe Verdi.My Top singers: Joan Sutherland, Edita Gruberová, Lucia Popp, Edda Moser, Montserrat Caballé, Diana Damrau, Natalie Dessay, Cecilia Bartoli, Teresa Berganza, Marilyn Horne, Agnes Baltsa, Vasselina Kasarova, Luciano Pavarotti, Juan Diego Flórez, Nicolai Gedda, Tito Gobbi, Thomas Allen, Samuel Ramey, Ildebrando D'arcangelo, Enzo Dara, Kurt Moll.***********************ROSSINI************************---The popular composer Jacques Francois Halevy was once infuriated to discover that an organ-grinder had stationed himself outside his home - and was busy grinding out tunes from Rossini's Barber of Seville. At last, Halevy went outside and confronted the man. "I will give you one louis d'or," he offered, "if you will go around to Rossini's lodgings and play one of my tunes beneath his window."--- The organ-grinder smiled. "But, monsieur," he replied. "M. Rossini has paid me two louis to play his music beneath yours!"------Gioachino Rossini was once asked his opinion of Wagner's opera Lohengrin. "One can't judge it after a first hearing," he remarked, "and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time!"------Gaetano Donizetti was once asked whether it was true that Rossini had composed the Barber of Seville in two weeks. "Oh, I quite believe it," he replied. "He has always been such a lazy fellow!"---************************MOZART***********************---Archduke Ferdinand of Austria once offered Mozart a qualified compliment on his work: "Beautiful music," he declared, "but far too many notes." "Yes, your majesty," the composer replied, "but not one more than necessary."------Mozart once bet Haydn a case of champagne that his older colleague could not play at sight a piece which he had composed earlier that day. When Haydn accepted, the score was placed on the spinet rack and Haydn began to play. After the first few bars, he suddenly stopped: the composition apparently required that the hands play at opposite ends of the keyboard while a note was struck at its center. Haydn conceded momentary defeat, whereupon Mozart took his turn at the piano. Upon reaching the impossible note, he bent forward - and struck it with his nose.------While visiting a farm with his parents one day, Mozart heard a pig squeal. "G-sharp!" he exclaimed. The curious party promptly ran to a piano; G-sharp it was. The budding composer was two years old.---*Special thanks to my friend Alix (DessayBestSinger) for promoting my channel on hers :-)*My channel background is dedicated to MAGGEO78 (Bartoli fan LOL) ;-DANY PROBLEM WITH MY VIDEOS? JUST INFORM ME AND I'LL FIX IT^^
