There is not one piece of Opera that I can tolerate.

Berate me.

But then again, I'm also a rabid anti-semite.

I blame the Jews for my dislike of Opera. Particularly Jackie Mason.

I kind of like the Oxygen network.

;-)

When I saw 'Amadeus' the first time .... Something about Mozart's magic that made it more palatable for me ....

I mean, THINK about it!

:evilgrin:

I'm not going to berate you. I agree. Ugh.

It's the opera equivalent of a DU cat-pics thread.

Now that I think about it, I might be able to tolerate Brecht and Weill's Threepenny Opera, but I wouldn't be happy about having to do so.

And Boo Again!

I loves it!

first, then you can enjoy it for the music alone, later.

When my Korn-fan step-daughter heard the Queen of the Night aria, from Mozart's "The Magic Flute" she said: "Wow! That is SO Cool!"

it's an art form where people have learned to use their voices as real instruments. If you've ever been in a recital and heard someone go into "head voice" you'd know how extraordinarily powerful some voices are.

It's also emotionally over-indulgent, has librettos that sound like they were written by a petulant child, and great sweeping melo-drama. And cool sets. It's fun - but you have to approach it like that. Nobody takes old hack pieces seriously -

(adopts booming Richard Burton voice) 'Who would've believed in the last years of the twentieth century mankind would make such ridiculously bombastic records that never, ever, ever end?'

http://bassocantante.com/opera/curiosity.html

what a hoot

Talk about overwhelming.

not only a hoot, but a screech

C'mon, you don't like any Gilbert and Sullivan? Just a bit?

And bad silly at that.

There's a *bad* silly? I don't think so! :P

And all that Strauss waltz magic to boot!

might do the trick.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20040628-0529-arts-germany-sex.html

http://www.kultur-fibel-magazin.de/Kultur%20Fibel,%20Oper,%20Entf%FChrung%20a-d%20Serial-1-Bieito.htm

I may have to rethink my standpoint.

Sheesh.

Hey who composed Carima Burana--quite possibly your all time bombast leader? ;)

However, I gotta know your take on Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

And don't sugar coat goddammit! I wanna know the truth!

Though I am, naturally, suspicious. }(

but the live shows are great. I missed gigantic, overblown, bloated rock and roll extravaganzas like we used to get in the '80s. I'm talkin' pyro, dry ice, strobe lights and goddamned string section in an NHL Hockey rink! You'd absolutely HATE it.

Sometimes I miss bloated arena rock....

on edit--proofread

But, yes, even Tommy is something I have very little time for.

with such intensely beautiful lines as "three nippled cousin fucker"!!

Not sure that would count as an opera - but then, I haven't seen it.

up and down your spine each and EVERY time?

We're going to the opera in Venice on 11 February... La finta semplice by Mozart, written when he was 12, SIMPLY for the AMAZEMENT of going to the Opera at La Fenice in Venice... the recently restored opera houses of all Opera Houses....

**sigh**





PINCH me, I'm so lucky!

Do you think you would be able to tolerate it then?

The mere mention of the idea of it makes my nipples explode with delight!

One is faulty. :evilfrown:

There's really nothing like an 8 nipple explosion for my money.

One is faulty. :evilfrown:

I heard a really cool anvil chorus on bugs bunny one time.
By the way, it is from an opera about a woman who watches her mother burn at the stake on the orders of an evil counts. So when she grows up she kidnaps the counts son and one night as all the gypsys gather around the fire she throws the baby on for revenge. Just as the child is dying in the flames she realizes it was her own son she immolated. So she goes a bit batty and raises the counts son as her own. When he grows up, she gets him to kills the counts other son, his brother, to avenge the death of her mother (by singing a duet with him about revenge and thrusting swords and stuff). Some other people die, there is a tragic love story, she sings lots of nutty arias about people in flames......
How could you not like something like that?

Where's my peyote?

I got your back.

Bourgeois overwrought drivel.

PUIAOL!

KILL THE WABBIT! KILL THE WABBIT!