tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post4418174394524319219..comments2024-03-26T07:58:59.761+00:00Comments on I'll think of something later: Proms: they think it's all over...Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-77208267520039914902009-09-15T17:32:10.665+01:002009-09-15T17:32:10.665+01:00I probably should be ashamed to admit this, given ...I probably should be ashamed to admit this, given what you glowingly wrote above, but Miss Connolly is thus far mostly a name to me, though I have probably heard just a little of her work to date. I have also, unlike recent years, yet to listen to the Last Night, partly due to the Naval Academy football game beginning just an hour after the concert started (Navy won by the way, and rather convincingly after their opponents started in a dominating mode), so hope I do not neglect that, before it and her contributions disappear forever. My first exposure to Maestro Robertson was probably that _SUPERB_, in my opinion at least, 2006 Edinburgh _Meistersinger_, quite possibly the most-evenly-cast performance of that drama I have thus far heard, notably Herr Kaufmann's _WONDERFUL_, again in my opinion at least, Walther! Did you hear it? And, lest you ask, I am aware that La Connolly is a notable Handelian, though again have yet to really experience that, nor her apparently-admired Dido. And her Mahler must be good too! I do not yet have a _Lieder_ _Eines_ _Fahrenden_ _Geselen_, but know the cycle to a degree. <br /><br />J. V.JVaughanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07468133975019785693noreply@blogger.com