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I've never really 'done' Opera. Not understanding what the big lady or fella are singing half the time put me off in the past but maybe I should give listening to it properly a try.
Where's a good beginners place to start?
Where's a good beginners place to start?
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Puccini's Turandot. The music is great and one of the last songs was press ganged into some stupid motor racing event. None shall sleep ( when these bloody cars howl and scream round a track) what's the point of that eh!
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I love the music in Turandot, but you have an heroine who is a bloodthirsty murderess who executes suitors, and a hero who ignores a slave girls who kills herself rather than reveal his name. Both the prince (tenor) and Turandot (soprano) are invariably played by extras from Supersize Me and can be far from empathetic.andrew Ivimey wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 7:33 pm Puccini's Turandot. The music is great and one of the last songs was press ganged into some stupid motor racing event. None shall sleep ( when these bloody cars howl and scream round a track) what's the point of that eh!
Still love this opera though
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Opera is what it is. How's that for another useless Tautology.
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It is what it is
Bloody annoying. On the hole I dont like opera (marbling Sopranos and wooden acting, pointless stories .....
But the music,WOW
We are where we are
It is what it is
Bloody annoying. On the hole I dont like opera (marbling Sopranos and wooden acting, pointless stories .....
But the music,WOW
Philosophers have only interpreted the world - the point, however, is to change it. No it isn't ... maybe we should leave it alone for a while.
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Me too, and the same for music related to religion.andrew Ivimey wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 9:13 am
Bloody annoying. On the hole I dont like opera (marbling Sopranos and wooden acting, pointless stories .....
But the music,WOW
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I never saw you as a John Coltrain fan
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You should come downstairs and listen to it properly in the living room !
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Oops that's a typo if ever.... 'old on..... I'm blaming the auto speel cheque.
Now I do love Maria Callas' voice for example but not only do I find opera incomprehensible because I can't hear what anyone is singing about I also find the stories a bit daft. I don't get the political or social critics and allusions that could have been dead witty to the composer's contemporaries but.... the music can be transcendentally wonderful. The Ring is astonishing, the story us just stupid ( imho) . The Bartered Bride is lovely, kinda weird but I still dont/ cant understand the words.
Now I do love Maria Callas' voice for example but not only do I find opera incomprehensible because I can't hear what anyone is singing about I also find the stories a bit daft. I don't get the political or social critics and allusions that could have been dead witty to the composer's contemporaries but.... the music can be transcendentally wonderful. The Ring is astonishing, the story us just stupid ( imho) . The Bartered Bride is lovely, kinda weird but I still dont/ cant understand the words.
Philosophers have only interpreted the world - the point, however, is to change it. No it isn't ... maybe we should leave it alone for a while.
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Count yourself luckey I was taken to string quartets concert orchestras piano concertos as the page turner for my mother. I was only 10 tears old. When mum took me and Christine to Royal Festival Hall this event was built up before we went. So I sat patiently all through the first half nothing much seemed to happen. In the interval I said to Mum, “when are they going to start singing?”andrew Ivimey wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 1:09 pm Oops that's a typo if ever.... 'old on..... I'm blaming the auto speel cheque.
Now I do love Maria Callas' voice for example but not only do I find opera incomprehensible because I can't hear what anyone is singing about I also find the stories a bit daft. I don't get the political or social critics and allusions that could have been dead witty to the composer's contemporaries but.... the music can be transcendentally wonderful. The Ring is astonishing, the story us just stupid ( imho) . The Bartered Bride is lovely, kinda weird but I still dont/ cant understand the words.
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Top notch Mark!IslandPink wrote: ↑Tue Apr 07, 2020 12:33 pmYou should come downstairs and listen to it properly in the living room !
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Really Simon, really?
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Lost your sense of humour Andrew? (It's Marks saying...)
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Eeeeh, these bloody opera-lovers.
Ps. Nick said he quite enjoyed some opera when played via the Living Voice Vox Olympians .
Ps. Nick said he quite enjoyed some opera when played via the Living Voice Vox Olympians .
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