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Thu Aug-11-05 08:27 AM
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Edited on Thu Aug-11-05 08:45 AM by ixion
Bizet's Carmen is one of my favorite's.
You'd know many songs from it if you heard them. :-)
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Thu Aug-11-05 08:30 AM
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1. Actually, it's Bizet's Carmen |
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And one of my least favorite, though it definitely has some of the famous songs in it.
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Thu Aug-11-05 08:32 AM
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3. Hahaha! I would have said the same thing.... |
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Thu Aug-11-05 02:34 PM
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22. Brilliantly complex and interesting minds think alike |
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Thu Aug-11-05 08:46 AM
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7. d'oh! you're right. corrected. |
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what the hell was I thinking?
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Thu Aug-11-05 08:46 AM
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8. You were thinking of copycats... |
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Thu Aug-11-05 08:48 AM
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Thu Aug-11-05 08:31 AM
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2. There's a quotation about opera which I love |
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I forget who said it - but I love he sentiment expressed.
"Opera was born a perfect child, but then ran into puberty issues from which it has yet to emerge."
Put another way - don't forget the early operas. Giulio Cesare by Handel is on at the Promms on my (alledged) birthday, so I'll be jollying into London that evening. :bounce:
I'm not so keen on Bizet - or even much of the grand opera of 19thC. Italy; but give me something early, some Wagner, or even a lot of modern opera (Britten rocks) then I'm yours forever.
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Thu Aug-11-05 08:36 AM
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Lyric Opera of Chicago did the Ring Cycle. I was lucky enough to hear two of them.
I like Carmen, too, Rigoletto, and Der Rosenkavelier.
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Thu Aug-11-05 02:37 PM
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24. Wagner is the king of opera. And other German opera writers. |
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The Italians, I hate to say it, just don't really "get" opera as an art form. They get it as an entertainment form (esp. Verdi), but not as art.
Except Puccini, he was a genius.
But Wagner! Ach, there's opera for ya.
I've stood through the Ring Cycle twice at the Met, and stood for a few one-offs, as well: Lohengrin (Robert Wilson's brilliant stage design production), Die Meistersinger, Tristan Und Isolde (Oh, man, is there anything better than that opera?!), Das Rheingold and Die Walkure (outside of the times that I also stod through them as part of a complete cycle).
Fuckin' love Wagner.
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Thu Aug-11-05 02:54 PM
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28. "Wagner's music is better than it sounds" |
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Mark Twain said this (I think that's the quote) - opera was looked down upon by intellectuals at the end of the nineteeth century, and it was "wagnermania" that made it respectable. I like Wagner too, but I can only listen occasionally -
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Thu Aug-11-05 08:32 AM
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4. I have heard Opera is a great browser too |
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Thu Aug-11-05 08:50 AM
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10. It's the best!.......eom |
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Thu Aug-11-05 09:04 AM
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16. I've tried it, wasn't fond of it |
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I much prefer Firefox, but that's just me.
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Thu Aug-11-05 02:43 PM
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27. I just switched to 8.02. It rules. n/t |
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Thu Aug-11-05 08:39 AM
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6. Carmen is my favorite opera |
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just been to an open air performance 2 weeks ago :D
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Thu Aug-11-05 08:54 AM
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11. Is that the one where Bugs gives Elmer a shave and a haircut? |
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Thu Aug-11-05 08:59 AM
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13. that's the Barber of Seville |
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Thu Aug-11-05 02:38 PM
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25. No, that's called "The Rabbit of Seville", though the music is, of course, |
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from The Barber of Seville"
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Thu Aug-11-05 02:42 PM
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26. The best is when Bugs and Elmer work over Wagner's 'Ring' in |
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Thu Aug-11-05 03:41 PM
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30. Oh, Bwundilda, You're so Wovely |
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Yes, I know it. I can't help it.
-- Don't tell me that I don't know my classics!
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Thu Aug-11-05 08:58 AM
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You have not lived until you have seen an opera at New York's Met.
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Thu Aug-11-05 08:59 AM
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14. yeah, Don Giovanni is another good one |
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Thu Aug-11-05 09:00 AM
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15. I love Offenbach's Belle Nuit |
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it's so romantic - I want someone to sweep me off my feet to that song
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Thu Aug-11-05 09:05 AM
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17. Oh, so you like a romantic duet sung by two women? |
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How sweet!! :)
:) :P :bounce:
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Thu Aug-11-05 09:41 AM
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20. Get your head out of the gutter and |
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Thu Aug-11-05 09:50 AM
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21. Oh not the gutter, that is an ethereal duet... hardly the gutter |
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Where's your mind? :shrug: tsk tsk
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Thu Aug-11-05 09:07 AM
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timeless... and redone a bazillion times in modern form (i.e., Rent).
Porgy and Bess, the quintessential American opera and a visionary work (for being based on black characters) and gorgeous timeless music by George Gershwin.
Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute showcase Mozart's skill with crafting musical dialogue.
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Thu Aug-11-05 09:13 AM
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19. Opera's really great! |
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:-)
I didn't think much of it, or no more so than other classical music which I do enjoy, until I went to the opera in a real Opera buffs' town: Vienna
Man those people were doing cat calls, stomping their feet, standing and cheering, or jeering as the case may be. They treated it for all the world like a baseball game, for all they were dressed in their finiest frippery. :-)
I've loved opera ever since then. :D
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Thu Aug-11-05 02:36 PM
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23. Ummm...you guys can have it |
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I'll watch ballet, see a symphony and even engage in the study of a dead white european male given the chance....
But opera...I just don't...like
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Thu Aug-11-05 03:04 PM
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29. I felt that way for a long time. |
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But a few years ago it was like I suddenly got it. And now I love it. Weird, eh?
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Thu Aug-11-05 03:55 PM
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Props for being an opera lover!
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