anyone listen to opera?
 

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?!:)

I've only heard a few select peices, but I'm slowly becoming a huge fan.

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

No. No one listens to opera.

ha! what kind of fag are you? fags love opera. :D

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.

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.

I'm the kind of fag with some dignity and taste in music.

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.

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.

hah! wait until you hear & understand "tosca" or "madame butterfly" or "carmen"-- you'll shit you shorts. :D

(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). :p

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.

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.

No, I've heard some of Mozart's operas, due to watching Amadeus, but I have never listened to it again.

i got to see the full four operas of wagners ring cycle it was a 15 million dollar production and it was fucking awesome

yeah, madame butterfly is the only opera i've ever seen. did anyone see striking plot similarities to miss saigon?

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."

I know a guy who named his daughter Lulu after the Berg opera.

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.

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..