06.01.2006, 06:25 AM | #1 |
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hi there so i'm listening to opera today and i'm wondering what my fellow sonics think of it? anyone else listen to it or do ya all think it's a pile of cack?!
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06.01.2006, 10:04 AM | #2 |
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I've only heard a few select peices, but I'm slowly becoming a huge fan.
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06.01.2006, 10:13 AM | #3 |
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yes and it is great live as well. i have seen all four cycles of the ring cycle live, la traviata, and tonight i had an opening night of mixing a version of philip glass' einstein on the beach with a contemporary dance company
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06.01.2006, 03:48 PM | #4 |
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No. No one listens to opera.
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06.01.2006, 03:56 PM | #5 | |
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ha! what kind of fag are you? fags love opera. |
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06.01.2006, 04:21 PM | #6 |
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Never.
Well, Except for Jules Massenet's O Souverain. Laurie Anderson played the recording of it at a couple of shows for United States Live. There's this one boot of her at the University of Minnesota where she plays some of it. Her song, O Superman, is of course loosley based on that opera. I have another recording of her giving an artist's talk lecture at Berkeley for KPFA's "Ode to Gravity" series 12/06/84 where she discusses the opera a little more. |
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06.01.2006, 04:30 PM | #7 |
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I like opera. But I listen to the overtures more often than the actual operas. I don't like listening to recordings of opera--I'd rather see it live or watch a DVD if I'm going for the whole thing.
Some opera composers that I like: Purcell, Mozart, Wagner, Berg Also, I've performed several operas as a cellist in the pit. It's fun. Mozart, Wagner, Puccini, Bernstein, Menotti, blah. |
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06.01.2006, 04:33 PM | #8 |
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I'm the kind of fag with some dignity and taste in music.
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06.01.2006, 04:36 PM | #9 |
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A lot of gay men have obsessions with opera singers, particularly sopranos. There's a large subculture. A long time ago those guys would have just been castrati. That was a joke.
But I think it's more typical for gay guys to be into musical theatre, showtunes, that kind of shit. |
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06.01.2006, 04:53 PM | #10 |
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When I played in a production of The Magic Flute, the setting had been changed to the USA in the 1970's. There were drug references (Magic Flute?) and so on. It was entertaining.
The Bernstein I performed in was Trouble in Tahiti. There's a DVD available now. Anyway, I had a nifty solo with the tenor lead at one point--he's supposed to be acting all macho in a locker room, but the guy who sang it is EXTREMELY gay. Good times. |
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06.01.2006, 04:56 PM | #11 | |
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hah! wait until you hear & understand "tosca" or "madame butterfly" or "carmen"-- you'll shit you shorts. (i particularly love that passage of lakmE where the 2 women sing-- holy fuck!) cmon, overcome what you once called your "trashy origins" (not that i would call them that anyway). |
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06.01.2006, 05:01 PM | #12 |
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I once saw Madame Butterfly performed by The Nashville Opera. It was really great, even though I'm not a huge Puccini fan. The scene where she's looking through the screen waiting for Pinkerton almost made me cry. The "humming chorus" at the end of Act II.
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06.01.2006, 05:37 PM | #13 |
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I used to listen to the Opera Radio Station on GTA3. I actually have my clock radio tuned to some sort of of Opera station too.
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06.01.2006, 06:33 PM | #14 |
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No, I've heard some of Mozart's operas, due to watching Amadeus, but I have never listened to it again.
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06.01.2006, 06:33 PM | #15 |
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i got to see the full four operas of wagners ring cycle it was a 15 million dollar production and it was fucking awesome
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yeah, madame butterfly is the only opera i've ever seen. did anyone see striking plot similarities to miss saigon?
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06.01.2006, 08:44 PM | #17 |
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I think Miss Saigon is based on Madame Butterfly.
Edit: Yes, according to Wikipedia, "Miss Saigon is a 'modern' adaptation of Puccini's Madame Butterfly." |
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06.01.2006, 08:47 PM | #18 |
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I know a guy who named his daughter Lulu after the Berg opera.
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oh, hell, that might explain a thing or two. my mom and i saw the two within weeks of each other and when miss saigon was over we just looked at each other and said, my god, what a ripoff . . . it's madame butterfly in vietnam.
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06.02.2006, 12:37 PM | #20 |
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what the hell are you spking about?
OPERA is not in my vocabulary so far! it's not too much time that acoustic gtr is into..
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