Life is still good

It went away but now it's back. 


It is very shocking to me how deeply I love this song, "I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls" from Balfe's The Bohemian Girl, especially in this incomparable version by Joan Sutherland.  I was sad thinking it was gone forever.

Yon moon

I was asked to post Cecilia Bartoli singing Balfe's "Yon moon o'er the mountains", and this was all I could find.  This song is from The Maid of Artois which was written for Maria Malibran.  She died before performing it.

It is fun to see him coaching her to sing with an English accent. She also talks about an ornamented version but sings it straight.

Life is Good

You might be curious to know that Balfe's The Bohemian Girl is roughly contemporary with Verdi's Nabucco.
It's back.