All this talk of Classical music spurred me to order tickets to my local symphony. The upcoming season begins in October and I haven't been there in a couple of years. It's time to return.
It’s under video albums on DG’s curator page.
I first discovered her when watching a video of her with Freddie Mercury singing "Barcelona,"
The recording of some duets by Caballé and Verrett is nifty
Can't imagine listening to good Classical music through Apple's DACs and earphones. But to each their own.
This is the kind of attention to detail Apple generally nails. Wonder why they haven't gotten around to this, especially when they asked their PR team to make a big splash out of this.
Non-smart-aleck answer: "opera" is a genre. An opera is, essentially, a musical in which ALL of the dialogue is sung. There are modern operas (even rock operas, such as The Who's Tommy) and older operas, usually sung in one of the romance languages (French and Italian are the most common).
Traditionally, operas are performed in relatively small venues with good acoustics, without amplification. The singers must be able to project their voices sufficiently so that they can be heard, even in the cheap seats, without a microphone.
Soprano Montserrat Caballe......any opera that you notice that she is in, have a listen. She's astonishing!
Yah I have to say I make an exception to my habit of not listening to parts of classical works when it comes to opera. I do have and like to listen to certain operas in their entirety, but I love collections of arias too.
The recording of some duets by Caballé and Verrett is nifty. iTunes has it (and is available on AM).
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/great-operatic-duets/477953281
Thanks. But how do you find that? A google search resulted in an article with a link:
https://search.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZContentLink.woa/wa/link?app=music&path=music/dg
which is a totally different place than going to
iTunes/browse/genres/classical/curators which doesn't have a video section.
Once you find it, is there a way to play it on an Apple TV? Airplay from my Mac fails of course due as it isn't an HDMI connection. On the Apple TV I went through all of the various apps ending up in music/music videos but wasn't able to find it.
I do this as well with classical music. I also put the last name of the composer as album artist. I wish albums were sold like this on the iTunes Store (I don’t like streaming services).First things first: "Opera" is the Latin plural of "Opus." Therefore, "Opera" means "two or more talking penguins."
Secondly: yay. I've stayed out of Apple Music world largely because of their problems with classical and the presentation of classical works. So I may give it a look.
Third: the only reason I don't run straight to it is the fundamental problem with Apple and classical, which is the metadata issue. "Artist/Album/Song" is meaningless in the classical world, and for twenty years now I've been watching as everybody makes up their own system for doing classical metadata.
So my made-up system is:
So if you patiently edit your metadata from your rips, this is an effective way to organize your music via iTunes without getting the problem shown in the photo in the story, where redundant information is crowding out real information in the track names, and in this case you literally only get a single letter to distinguish the tracks.
- artist -> Conductor: Orchestra
- album -> Work
- song -> Movement
- composer -> Composer
And if you edit your metadata to this sysem, it works great until the instant you sign into Apple Music, and their metadata spits all over yours, and your system is destroyed until the moment you log out of Apple Music again.
How did you manage to group the different concertos with titles over the tracks?I rip my music myself from CD and edit the metadata myself, and the Music app have the possibility to do it better than in your example. I am sure new albums added by DGG should also be able to benefit. Still the now playing should split it at least in two lines.
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then use the Add button on each to add them to your iCloud Music Library.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/gounod-roméo-et-juliette-live-at-felsenreitschule-salzburg/1423936878
It’s under video albums on DG’s curator page.
It's like you're just completely ignoring Klingon Opera.
Shouldn’t a curator be independent of a specific label?
Thanks. But how do you find that? A google search resulted in an article with a link:
https://search.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZContentLink.woa/wa/link?app=music&path=music/dg
which is a totally different place than going to
iTunes/browse/genres/classical/curators which doesn't have a video section.
Once you find it, is there a way to play it on an Apple TV? Airplay from my Mac fails of course due as it isn't an HDMI connection. On the Apple TV I went through all of the various apps ending up in music/music videos but wasn't able to find it.
Obviously I'm unfamiliar with Apple Music as my preference is Tidal due to its superior audio. If Apple comes out with a pair of high end headphones I am hoping that it means that they are going to introduce high res music as well. That would solve a lot of problems such as Bayo's "il Barbiere di Siviglia" that won't even mount in either of my Blu-Ray drives so I can't rip it.
Same thing here. I have two videos of them performing, the live concert in Barcelona for the 1992 Olympics and a studio performance. The live concert may be my favorite music video of all time. Two performers at the height of their powers, one a rock star, the other considered by some the greatest female soprano singer ever. The incredible harmony of the supporting singers, the outside venue in Barcelona; the fireworks. I have attended opera performances on 3 different continents but this is the performance that I will never forget. How I would have liked to have been there.
Awesome find. Just got the CD (used) from Amazon for ~$8.
Great. Now how about making the UI usable for classical music? Make long track names double lined, instead of the ..., which makes all tracks look the same.
What a wonderful resource this is! Thank you, Apple, for making this available to us.
I’ll offer a different experience, as the way I listen to music is different from yours. I’ve been living a somewhat nomadic lifestyle—home, classrooms, studio and places in between—and at the same time, I’m intentionally paring down my physical possessions. If I waited for “good equipment” to listen to music, I’d never listen.
Instead, I find that my memory and my imagination are more than enough to make up for any deficiencies in my equipment. With just a pair of AirPods, I can enter into the music and it can be as expansive or as intimate as necessary.
I’m just so grateful that with Apple Music I have access to anything I want to hear, any time and anywhere.
I'm intrigued to know why you think not? I subscribed to Apple Music, Deezer, Spotify, Qobuz and Tidal. Ended up dropping all by Spotify, which I felt had by far and away the best classical support. Qobuz had the best quality, but you'd have to have one hell of a hifi system to hear it!Don't make me laugh.
I still think apple music has a long way to go in terms of ui. While its ui has trickled over to podcasts and books, i feel as if its in dire need of a rethink.
Yep, some people strive for the best possible, some just strive to get by with minimal (effort, gear, etc.). Not a judgement, not saying one is better than the other, just a fact of life. Apple gear is designed for those that are NOT expecting the best experience possible, yet don't mind paying for it. Just sayin'.
For me there is just never one definitive performance… humm… Exception to that of course is Callas's 1953 Tosca.I might keep downloads of a group of works played by different artists for months and listen to them frequently in different ways - track to track comparisons, or straight through... before making up my mind
Just curious, has Apple never offered complete opera performances?
Well, opera CDs (for purchase/download) have been available for iTunes since….. iTunes existed. As for availability in Apple Music streaming, not so sure.If you use Apple Music then this is very good news.
Myself I'm in the Spotify camp and they have always served us well with opera.
Just curious, has Apple never offered complete opera performances?
Well, opera CDs (for purchase/download) have been available for iTunes since….. iTunes existed. As for availability in Apple Music streaming, not so sure.
I've found Apple Music invaluable for letting me preview works in their entirety before I purchase them in CD form to rip lossless or play in a rack system.
There is no possible way to select a preferred classical performance of lengthy works using only something like 90-second track previews. So the AM experience of being able to download several performances of a work (or a group of works, say the Brahms Op. 10 Ballades) has been so helpful to me.
I might keep downloads of a group of works played by different artists for months and listen to them frequently in different ways - track to track comparisons, or straight through... before making up my mind which to purchase. I'll leave them unnamed here, but before Apple Music came along, I had occasionally purchased works I found out later on I did not much care for, simply over not having been able to hear them completely first. That doesn't happen now!
Myself I'm in the Spotify camp and they have always served us well with opera.
Just curious, has Apple never offered complete opera performances?
Audio yes, visual presentation not until now.
For me there is just never one definitive performance… humm… Exception to that of course is Callas's 1953 Tosca.
Ne plus ultra right there.![]()
It feels sometimes that Apple is rushing to introduce new features without much thought...
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It’s sad that even with the internet providing such a huge universe of knowledge, people still relly on asking others instead of searching themselves...
You put the work name in the work metadata field. And then each movement in the movement field. You find it in iTunes under Details. When there are two or more tracks sequentially the work name comes over the tracks if they are identical, and the tracks is shown with only their movement name and numbering.How did you manage to group the different concertos with titles over the tracks?