The Original Gay Porn Community - Free Gay Movies and Photos, Gay Porn Site Reviews and Adult Gay Forums

  • Welcome To Just Us Boys - The World's Largest Gay Message Board Community

    In order to comply with recent US Supreme Court rulings regarding adult content, we will be making changes in the future to require that you log into your account to view adult content on the site.
    If you do not have an account, please register.
    REGISTER HERE - 100% FREE / We Will Never Sell Your Info

    To register, turn off your VPN; you can re-enable the VPN after registration. You must maintain an active email address on your account: disposable email addresses cannot be used to register.

  • Hi Guest - Did you know?
    Hot Topics is a Safe for Work (SFW) forum.

Ask Me Anything About Opera ?

Peto Antoni:

Very interesting; I was going to write on the difference between opera and musical (and others), and your last post beat me to it?

I also could tell the difference between an opera and an oratorio in a minute. But I don't know about Porgy and Bess. Is it an opera or a musical? To me, the question is a tempest in a teacup. For example: a production may choose to call the performance an opera, since they perform in an opera house, whereas a record executive may call it a musical (or anything else) to sell more records. Either way, the decision is not made on the basis of the music.

Opera? Musical? Opperetta? There are grey areas all over the place, and I'm not sure it does that much good to split hairs. I certainly understand the historical interest in terms of the evolution of musical form, but I fear at times that pigeonholoing works is much ado about nothing, particularly when it detracts from the music.
 
Can you make a recommendation? I like Queen of the night Aria because of the vocals. What else should i listen to if i am interested in extreme vocals? It doesn't have to be the same style, just good vocals that an opera n00b like me would be easily wowed.
 
Jory said:
Click to expand...

By your reply when I posted this its good to see that you have a sense of humor about it. First question in that clip how many operas in music costums, and background where there please list them. 2nd question how many of your friend would think that the late Miss Sills should have never appeared on such what they might think as an low brow show as the Muppets? Me personally I thought she had a great sense of humor to do so.
 
image
Who is this person?
 
do you think Opera is a better browser then firefox and explorer?

just asking
 
I have a question indirectly related to another Puccinni opera, Madam Butterfly. Why is part of the American national anthem the same as Dovunque al mondo?

BTW, is there an Italian translation for the title "Madam Butterfly"?

Ying Huang sings "Un bel di vedremo" :

 
Peto Antoni said:
Of course it helps. It's a painting I can see. The poor King assassinated in Sweden. It rang a bell because he made me think instantly of UN BALLO IN MASCHERA by Verdi. It is Gustavus 111 who they say was homosexual. I have read several accounts of his homosexuality. One more on our side!
Click to expand...
I would do him......um sorry lost my hea....um mind

peto antoni said:
That was a clever idea to put on a painting. I somehow am getting the impression that you are trying to trip me up and find something I can't answer or something I would have trouble with. This thread is not a contest. My point was to try and answer as best I could answer. I wasn't trying to make it a competition! Well I certainly don't pretend to know everything..... that would be too presumptuous of anyone, but I do know my opera and I do a very good job of teaching French Lit. of the 17th Century at the University.
Click to expand...
Confession time yes I was in a way trying to trip you up but only because I am such an evil son of a bitch. The reason I picked this particular opera was it was the first on I saw althought on televison the my first live opera was last season it was Carmen. Anyhow I do know some back ground on Un Ballo In Machera in that when it was first being preformed the censors would no allow it to be preformed due to the King's assination so the story was moved to the Colonies and the king becomse the Royal Govenor of Massachusettes so my question is this when did they offially move the story from Boston to Stockholm? This one I do not know the answer.....oh I am kind of Bias toward this opera because of my Swedish background........not bad for someone who dropped out of school in kindergarden
 
Do you think Opera is better than Firefox?

Is a Flash plugin available for Opera on the Mac?

Why doesn't Opera always render JUB's pages correctly?
 
Peto Antoni said:
Die Konigin der Nacht has two arias to die for. Im sure you know them so I won't list them.They are pieces that I like to say go into the stratosphere.

The Queen's music is so demanding and last year Erika Mikloza as Die Konigin made a very impressive debut at the MET in the role earning very high praise indeed.

If you like extreme vocals....... as I do. I truly am a sucker for coloratura arias as they are often called. A great many come from the period of the 19th century known as the 'bel canto' period, roughly from 1820 to 1860. That is a rough estimation.

You will have to listen to the pirotechnics in the arias of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and the soprano arias of early Verdi.

The French repertoire has an amazing amount of goodies in the extreme vocal range as you like to call it.

Most sopranos who sing in this style are labelled coloratura sopranos, but that misleads people as heavier, dramatic sopranos such as Callas, Sutherland, the sweet Caballe all had huge voices but were able to sing in that style because of the agility of the voice, being able to sing the cadenzas and all the fioriture without any problem.

There is so much to choose from I hardly know where to begin, but here it goes. If you love vocals; if you love the female voice you must listen to a number of these stratospheric arias. ( some are soprano arias, some mezzo roles......... but the singing will amaze you.

1. Rossini...... Una Voce poco fa from IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
2. Rossini...... Eccomi alfin in Babilonia from SEMIRAMIDE
3. Rossini....... Tanti affetti from La Donna del Lago
4. Rossini....... Non piu mesta from La Cenerentola
5. Rossini....... any number of arias for the two
soprano roles in ERMIONE
6. Rossini....... Sombre Foret from Guillaume Tell




7. Donizetti..... The Mad Scene from LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR
8. Donizetti...... the soprano arias from
the TUDOR TRILOGY: ANNA BOLENA
MARIA STUARDA
ROBERTO DEVEREUX
9. Donizetti....... Salut a la France from LA FILLE DU REGIMENT
9a) Donizetti........ O Mon Fernand from LA FAVORITE



10. Bellini......... Casta Diva from NORMA
11. Bellini......... Son Vergine Vezzosa from I PURITANI
12. Bellini ........ Ah non credea mirarti and ah non giunge from LA SONAMBULA




13. Verdi ........ the arias of Abigaile from his 3rd opera NABUCCO.
14. Verdi........ Caro Nome from RIGOLETTO
14.Verdi .......... The Quartet from RIGOLETTO is to die for!
15. Verdi......... Sempre Libera from LA TRAVIATA
16. Verdi......... O Patria Mia from AIDA
16a) Verdi ......... The Veil Song from Don Carlo ( Don Carlos )
16b) Verdi........... O don Fatale from Don Carlo
16c) Verdi......... Ernani, Ernani, Involami from ERNANI


17. Richard Strauss, Grossmachtige Princessen, Zerbinetta's coloratura aria from ARIADNE AUF NAXOS


18. Richard Wagner: from DIE WALKURE..... THE RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES.
( amazing vocal and instrumental writing )


20. Delibes, Leo......... Aie des Clochettes ( The Bell Song ) from Lakme


21. Offenbach......... Les Oiseaux dans la Charmille....... Olympia, the doll's aria from LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN


22. Charpentier........... Depuis le Jour from LOUISE.


23. Massenet......... Dis-mois que je suis belle from THAIS


24.Bizet....... Chez les Remparts de Seville from CARMEN


25. Gounoud............ Je veux vivre from ROMEO ET JULIETTE


26. Gounod........... O Ma Lyre Immortelle from SAPHO


27. Strauss ........... The Czardas from DIE FLEDERMAUS


28. For it's sheer beauty along with its difficult tessitura ....... Handel
Lascia che io pianga Cleopatra's aria from GIULIO CESARE


29. Rimsky-Korsakov The Queen of Shemakha's aria from LE COQ D'OR
( Beverly Sills did this beautufully )


30. Tchaikovsky.......... from Eugene Onegin Tatiana's Letter Scene. This is a very dramatic aria, not a coloratura aria, but you will thrill at the vocal writing!


31. Puccini.......... In Questa Reggia......... from his last opera TURANDOT
( one of the most difficult of all soprano roles to sing in opera. The first aria is a killer........ a real 'tour de force.'


32. Thomas.......... Ophelie's final aria as she drowns from HAMLET


33. Meyerbeer........... Ombre legere from Dinorah


34. MOZART........Martern aller Arten from DIE ENTFUHHRUNG AUS DEM
SERAIL

35) Richard Strauss ZWEITE ( Sp. ) BRAUTNACHT ( second wedding Night) from DIE AEGYPTISCHE HELENA ( WOW! )

And one could add so many more!



36. John Adams......... Lady Mao Tse tong's aria from NIXON IN CHINA
( a minimalist opera )

37. Philip Glass........ the vocal writing for counter-tenor in Satyagraha
and in Akhnaten ( sp.)

To add two very contemporary composers.
Click to expand...

Dear lord! Now that's what i call a recommendation. Thanks a lot. I will make sure to check them out.
 
Info on Brokeback
NEWS
Breaking News
line_hor.gif

Charles Wuorinen Writing Operatic Adaptation of Brokeback Mountain
September 26, 2007



Pulitzer prize-winning composer Charles Wuorinen is writing an operatic adaptation of Brokeback Mountain, after having been given the consent of the short story's author, Annie Proulx, the New York Daily News has reported.

The choice of Wuorinen, whose aggressively modern musical language is couched in an adherence to the tenants of twelve-tone composition, is something of a surprising choice for an opera based on the affecting love story of two gay cowboys. Wuorinen won the Pulitzer in 1970 for his electronic composition Time's Encomium. His most recent opera, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, based on on Salman Rushdie's 1990 novel and featuring a libretto by the acclaimed author, premiered at New York City Opera in October 2004.

Proulx, who in 1997 penned the original short-story for the New Yorker, on which the Academy Award-winning movie was based, was named as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2000.

No opera company has been announced as formally attached to the project. News of an operatic adaptation of Brokeback Mountain ostensibly put to rest rumors that the story was headed for a Broadway stage.
monthlynewsletterspacer205.jpg
 
As you know every generation of opera has their super stars with this generation soon to be replaced by a new generation who do you think are the top three upcoming male and felmale singers? OH and if you could do a youtube so that we can see and hear them in action. thanks
 
Peto Antoni said:
Wasn't able to view the video, but I can tell it is Anna Russell who made her home here in Toronto.

She died a few years ago while visiting her daughter in Australia.

Her outrageous, but funny as hell take on Wagner's DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN has deservedly become a classic. It's hilarious!
Click to expand...


I can post that too the whole if you so desire it is only audio.....I am not making up this up you know.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top