13 Sep 21
@lemondrop saidIf you're being serious, then it has to be Puccini's Madama Butterfly.
I'm liking it
so far La Boheme is my fav
13 Sep 21
@ghost-of-a-duke saidthat's my moms favorite
If you're being serious, then it has to be Puccini's Madama Butterfly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLcbfF9ypmM
and I am serious
I remember her crying while watching it
13 Sep 21
@lemondrop saidMy mom's favourite is Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti.
that's my moms favorite
and I am serious
I remember her crying while watching it
That was the only opera I had been exposed to as child.
13 Sep 21
the following, while a true story, has had the names, places, and events all changed because it sounds so cool
i accidently attended the barber of seville opera at bass hall in ft worth one time
when one of the excellent songs would end i would stand up and whoop and holler
the folks kept hushing me
it twern't all that much fun
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13 Sep 21
@gambrel saidFrankly, if that doesn't count, nothing does. If you've seen that film, you've heard all you need to hear of Richard "des belles moments, mais des mauvais quarts d'heures" Wagner.
If Elmer Fudd singing,"Kill the Wabbit" counts. I've been to the opera.
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13 Sep 21
@ponderable saidFunny thing about that - originally, opera was meant to be a play with music, not music acted.
To quote a bonmot, whose originator I don't find (since I don't know the original language I have herad it in three that I recollect):
In an opera singers act, in a musical actors sing.
In the Renaissance, they misinterpreted a thing or two about classical Greek theatre. In this case, they believed it was sung throughout. We now know it wasn't, but they had many fewer sources to go on. So, to "emulate" that, they chose to set their own plays to music.
Therefore, back in Monteverdi's days, opera too was where actors sang.
(And I still maintain that if you can't act or emote, get TF off the stage and back into the concert hall. Yes, Paul Potts, that's you. And you, Sarah Brightman.)
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@lemondrop saidGood opera will do that to you. I can't listen to "When I am laid" without choking a bit. (Of course, that was the intent. Same thing with the closing chorus of the Mattæus - which isn't an opera, but still.)
that's my moms favorite
and I am serious
I remember her crying while watching it
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14 Sep 21
@great-big-stees saidcostipation street is pants I prefer Hemmaroid farm
Which one...Coronation Street?🤔
