Anyone here enjoy Opera?
by beksbks 41 Replies latest social entertainment
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StAnn
Yes, I love opera. As a matter of fact, we had an opera singer sing at our wedding. Our local university puts on one or two operas a year and we always take the children to experience them. Of course, they just love the Marriage of Figaro.
Music Hall is located in Cincinnati, which is my general locale. Music Hall is one of the largest opera houses in the world.
Ohio is having its struggles right now with job losses and the economy but we are an absolute power house when it comes to the arts and classical music.
Beks, you should check out WGUC, our classical radio station. It's been rated best in the nation. You can stream it, lots of people do. My autistic son won't allow us to play any other radio station if he is in the room or in the car!
BTW, I really like Tales of Hoffman. Don't know why, I just do.
And for your listening pleasure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVZNx39xYiA
Another BTW, I was at the drive thru at McDonald's getting ready to pay when the news came over the radio that Pavarotti had died. I burst into tears. That poor girl at the checkout didn't know what was going on. I sobbed, "Pavarotti has died!" Either she didn't understand me or she didn't know who Pavarotti was, based upon her facial expression.
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beksbks
Another Bartoli, I am tempted to say again "my favorite".
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StAnn
Beks, here's a wiki about Music Hall. It really is spectacular. I may sing in the May Festival Chorus next year, contingent upon babysitting. If you ever come to the Midwest, you should visit Music Hall:
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JimmyPage
I saw Mozart's "Magic Flute" and loved it! I was very impressed by what can be accomplished scenery wise onstage.
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White Dove
I love opera and so does Egg! I miss it.
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GoingGoingGone
LOVE opera!
GGG
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BizzyBee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mOA8pZ_I4M&feature=related
Fun to watch other versions of this - and read the comments.
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StAnn
Beks, Pavarotti said that Caruso was the greatest tenor of all time. Enjoy:
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beksbks
This is what started me on my love of this music
I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free.