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  • Sir Thomas Allen ~ Grieg Songs

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    Sir Thomas Allen (above) sings two songs by Edvard Grieg:

    Sir Thomas Allen – 2 Grieg Songs – BBC 1993

    Sir Tom has always been a particular favorite of mine; I had the great pleasure of meeting him in 2001 when he was in New York City for performances of MEISTERSINGER in which he was a splendid Beckmesser. I’ve also greatly enjoyed him as Count Almaviva in NOZZE DI FIGARO and as the Music Master in ARIADNE AUF NAXOS; he also played an exceptionally moving and beautifully-sung Sharpless in MADAMA BUTTERFLY.

  • Sleepwalking Scene

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    I’ve re-discovered Montserrat Caballe’s atmospheric recording of the Sleepwalking Scene from Verdi’s MACBETH. Elizabeth Bainbridge and Sir Thomas Allen provide world-class support as the Gentlewoman and Doctor.

    Montserrat Caballe – Sleepwalking Scene ~ MACBETH – w Elizabeth Bainbridge and Sir Thomas Allen

    LADY MACBETH
    A spot…still here.
    Out, damned spot! I curse you!
    One, two, it is time!
    You are trembling? You do not dare to go in?
    A soldier, and a’feard?
    For shame! Come…hurry!
    Who’d have thought that old man
    could have so much blood in him?

    DOCTOR
    What did she say?

    LADY MACBETH
    The Thane of Fife,
    was he not a husband and father?
    What happened?

    GENTLEWOMAN and DOCTOR
    Oh, horror!

    LADY MACBETH
    Shall I never be able
    to clean these hands?
    There’s blood here still.
    All the perfumes of Arabia
    could not cleanse this little hand.
    Alas!

    DOCTOR
    She sighs…?

    LADY MACBETH
    Put on your nightgown. Come, wash yourself!
    Banquo is dead, and the dead
    cannot come back from the grave.

    DOCTOR
    This too?

    LADY MACBETH
    To bed, to bed …
    What’s done cannot be undone.
    Someone is knocking! Come, Macbeth…
    let not your pallor accuse you.

    GENTLEWOMAN and DOCTOR
    What terror…!
    Lord, have mercy on her…

  • Sir Thomas Allen Sings Grieg

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    Sir Thomas Allen (above) sings two songs by Edvard Grieg.

    Sir Thomas Allen – 2 Grieg Songs – BBC 1993

    Sir Tom has always been a particular favorite of mine; I had the great pleasure of meeting him in 2001 when he was in New York City for performances of MEISTERSINGER in which he was a splendid Beckmesser. I’ve also greatly enjoyed him as Count Almaviva in NOZZE DI FIGARO and as the Music Master in ARIADNE AUF NAXOS; he also played an exceptionally moving and beautifully-sung Sharpless in MADAMA BUTTERFLY. In January 2015, he was at The Met as Baron Zeta in THE MERRY WIDOW.