Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/06/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Douglas. Bartoli in her prime would have been wonderful, ditto Terfal. I would have loved to have seen Damrau in Zauberflote, but I have the recording so will have to deal with that. Still on my list is DiDonato. My wife has seen her twice but I never seem to be in town when the two of them are! As for the manipulation it was done using Snapseed on my phone. Peter On 29/06/2022 01:12, Douglas Barry wrote: > They show England at its pastoral best with the sheep at full bleat, Peter. > > I always wanted to go to Glyndbourne, but the nearest I got was > listening to Bryn Terfal and I think Cecilia Bartoli in St Padern Church > in Llanberis in July 1996. They had either just performed at Glyndbourne > or were about to. > > It was fabulously intimate as the church was very small, and very > special, because the show was only for the Snowdon mountain race team > managers and delegates. Snowdon was hosting the European Championship > that year so the main organiser twisted Bryn's arm as he was from just > over the mountain. > > I was lucky enough to be the Ireland team manager at the time, but > because I was also a friend of the organiser, I got put in the front. It > was spine tingling. I had a programme for it, but it vanished in my last > house move. > > On your pics, I looked at the images at full size and notice they seem a > little blurry or manipulated. I wonder what filter treatment did you use > in PS or whatever? > > Douglas > > On 28/06/2022 13:56, Peter Dzwig wrote: >> HCB, Tony Ray-Jones and others photographed the picknickers in the >> interval during the legendary interval in the opera at Glyndebourne, >> England. HCB in 1953 >> >> FWIW these are my take: >> >> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PeterDzwig/PESO2011/HCB1-20220626_185200-01.jpeg.html> >> >> >> >> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PeterDzwig/PESO2011/HCB2-20220626_183757-01.jpeg.html> >> >> >> >> A certain England on a lovely summer's evening. >> >> Thanks for looking and as ever your C&Cs are much appreciated. >> >> Peter >> >> PS. It was Figaro. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Dr. Peter Dzwig