Ask Me Anything About Opera ?

[star-warrior]

I'm sure you knew I was only joking, Peto

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

i would ask

but no one here answers
me posts

 

[star-warrior]

i would ask

but no one here answers
me posts

Maybe he accidentally put you on the ignore list some time back???

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

Maybe he accidentally put you on the ignore list some time back???

damn it be his loss

eh!!!!!

 

[star-warrior]

The Three Tenors sing a lot of pieces from the operas, but when you divorce the music from the context (ie the story in the opera) doesn't that make listening to the Tenors nothing more than an admiration of the person for his vocal skills?

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

The Three Tenors sing a lot of pieces from the operas, but when you divorce the music from the context (ie the story in the opera) doesn't that make listening to the Tenors nothing more than an admiration of the person for his vocal skills?

one be dead and buried now
was peto at the funeral

 

[star-warrior]

PP I'll bring together everything you said all in this post for Peto.

that ugly opera house on queen.........

why????

it be very ugly

Originally Posted by Peto Antoni
Leave a question anytime....... and I will answer it!

i did

you not answer................

but but but but but

what in do you think of the new opera house??

that my question

Originally Posted by RationalLunacy
Can you drink out of opera glasses?

pete can't drink out of anything

i say

i would ask

but no one here answers
me posts
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Quote:
Originally Posted by star-warrior
Maybe he accidentally put you on the ignore list some time back???

damn it be his loss

eh!!!!!

one be dead and buried now
was peto at the funeral

 

[2243]

Sorry........ I can't say I do. I would need to see more than an avatar...... after all I'm not an operatic God....... if it is operatic based.

Nah... your right, I really shouldn't have expected you to know, since it is related more to video games and barely even related to opera. She is a fighting video-game character named Helena Douglas. In the game, she is also an opera singer, but all she does is fight.

and here's a little more than my avatar for your photographic memory.



K.. sorry. Back to the Opera.

 

[justjw]

Peto: what’s yóur take on the Peter Sellars’ aproach to Opera?
Situating “Don Giovanni” (I think it was…) in a penthouse in Milano, and “Julius Ceasar” in the port of Napoli e.g.

Mý take on it would be that Opera to me has that stigma attached to it of being dusty, and old-fashioned, and people singing in an undecypherable language about things and conventions we don’t understand (anymore) in ridiculous clothes.
But once you get rid of that “history” that clouds it, it all of a sudden makes perfect sense.
And even though if it’s an age-old story, it’s still applicable to today’s world.

What I mean to say/ask is: should Opera’s from the 16th/17th/18th century be exclusively performed in their historic setting, as they were conceived, or is it perfectly okay, commended even, to perform them in a modern setting, so as to fully understand them?

(So sorry if this has been asked before, I just didn't have the energy to trawl through the whole thread........ "Sellars" didn't show up on "search" so hoppefully I'm in the clear....)

 

[frankfrank]

Peto, you are so fortunate to actually happen to live SO CLOSE to one of your favourite opera houses on the PLANET!!!!!!!

It appears you've taken a "continuing crash course" in opera (via studies, experiences, etc.) in the short seven years since you were [reluctantly] exposed. I know very little about the genre, but I've found this thread to be informative, interesting, and refreshing.

This is a question about your own experience, in particular:

Which opera was it which your date coaxed you to go to, kicking and screaming, back at the Turn Of the Century? And, if that same opera is not currently your all-time favourite, which one is?

 

[Jory]

you never answered my question about Porgy and Bess....opera or musical and why?

 

[Spiff]

Is Brokeback Opera a good idea?

 

[Jory]

I did answer it and in quite a bit of detail....

Please check the posts. I have answered every question except for those I cannot see ( only one ) because he is on my ignore list!

Peto.

Drop me a line if you can't find it. I answered it 4 or 5 days ago before I left for New York!

My mistake I guess I was looking at the wrong page and you don't have to yell at me.


Anyway if I live in such a cultural waste land how is it that we have the 4th largest Opera Company in the US?

 

[Shepherd 2]

Which opera makes you weep the most?

Which aria, reduces you to tears? Are they the same one?

 

[Jory]

I never intimated in any way that you live in a cultural wasteland...... from your comment you must live in Frisco or Chicago, The MET and the New York City Opera, the two largest in the U.S.A.

No I do not live in Chicago or San Franisco word of advice if you ever go there never refer to it as Frisco that fighting word for them I live in Los Angeles

 

[Jory]

Well Domingo as General Director has and is doing magnificent things in L.A. I'm very proud to have done some work for him in Washington D.C. though I am not an American.

L.A. is a marvellous company, but I would not say it is the 4th greatest or largest in the country. The number of productions don't necessarily put you at the top of the list.

OPERA NEWS, OPERA from the U.K. and GRAMOPHONE list

THE MET as #1

N.Y.City Opera #2

San Francisco # 3 ( one of my fav places to wallow in opera, during the regular season and during their summer season )

Lyric Opera of Chicago #4 ( where I saw my first ever opera, FAUST )

I will say this, having attended many a performance at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, L.A. Opera has much, very much to be proud of, yet being a relatively young company.

It seems to be becoming a great place to see certain works that are not that often performed such as:

El Gato Montes

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonney

Porgy and Bess

Luisa Fernanda

They might be doing a total rarity by Albeniz, namely, PEPITA JIMENEZ. There is no confirmation on this at all and it might not happen, but I did get some word to that effect! Domingo is very eager to present and has presented a number of Spanish works, mainly ZARZUELAS!

Well according to their website http://www.losangelesopera.com/company/history.htm

 

[Jory]

Oh and I never been to the Los Angeles opera Opera Pacific yes LA no

 

[Jory]

Do you think of when they update an opera i.e. put in a more modern setting

 

[Jory]

I'm very well acquainted with L.A. Opera and I know they have surpassed Lyric Opera of Chicago in the number of productions. I am merely stating the position of the prestige Opera Magazines.

Where do they place LA?



Oratorios what is your thoughts one these?

For those of you who don't what this is think of an Opera without the acting.

 

[star-warrior]

What's the difference between an opera and a musical?