Do You Like Opera?

Charade I am · Post by **Charade I am** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 8:33 pm

I do....you?

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Anna-Roza · Post by **Anna-Roza** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 10:09 pm

Because of my profession, I do perceive opera more as sort of music theatre - so I could say I am a huge admirer of operas directed by Robert Wilson, or Peter Sellars, or Mariusz Trelinski, or Peter Brook.... Musical content is less important in such case; I'm also very keen on good, intelligent librettos.
But, of course, music... Operas by Mozart or Monteverdi are masterpieces, nobody could deny it.... Personally, I prefer 20th century operas: works by Alban Berg ("Lulu" and "Wozzeck"), Karol Szymanowski ("King Roger") and Richard Strauss ("Salome"), and some really modern stuff (like Helmut Lachenmann's).

Yucateco · Post by **Yucateco** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 3:12 am

Not at all. I don?t know why, i can?t explain it, but operas are something my mind/body/whatever doesn?t like at all.

JML · Post by **JML** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 10:41 am

I have seen few Finnish operas (it was a local opera-trilogy) and I enjoyed them, but I would not say that I like operas. I prefer ordinary theatre. Next friday I'm going to watch Pekka 1.5, which is about gay couple who adopts a baby, 1,5 years old, but the dot is placed in wrong place and they get 15 year old teenager.

Flame-Sky Diver · Post by **Flame-Sky Diver** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 11:46 am

I can enjoy operas when in the right mood, but I prefer watching rock shows.

qjamesfloyd · Post by **qjamesfloyd** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 1:15 pm

The question is will non opera likers be buying Roger Waters up coming opera Ca Ira?.

Powderfinger · Post by **Powderfinger** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 4:12 pm

I haven't seen many opera's, but I don't like it at all.

quicksilver · Post by **quicksilver** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 9:45 pm

I'm not a huge fan of opera but I respect it as an art. I may go see one every few years just to shake things up a bit. It's good for the soul.

Ivan_2068 · Post by **Ivan_2068** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 5:09 am

It's funny, I don't like Italian Opera but I love German Opera, my fav's are Wagner's:

Tannheuser
Der Fliegende Holl?nder
Rienzi
Tristan Und Isolde
Die Fledermouse
Lohengrin
Der Ring des Nibelungen

And my all time favorite:

Carmina Burana by Carl Orff

O Fortuna
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem.

Magnificent!!!!!

Iv

Anna-Roza · Post by **Anna-Roza** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 9:35 am

Ivan_2068 wrote:Die Fledermouse

Die Fledermaus (The Bat, or The Revenge of the Bat) is by Johann Strauss. It's a typical operetta from Vienna and has nothing to do with Wagnerian operas and music dramas.
However, I have to agree with the rest of your post - Italian opera is soppy and kitschy, while Wagner and Orff are extremely influential - for rock music as well.

rosm · Post by **rosm** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 6:29 pm

I don't listen to it at home; I only have one real opera cd and a few compilation cd's with operapieces.
Once I have been given tickets for The Meistersinger von Nurnberg by Wagner and I must say I enjoyed every minute of the 4 1/2 hours it lasted.
But as I said: I don't know much opera music so what can I say...

btw Does anyone know when Roger's opera will come out?

Ivan_2068 · Post by **Ivan_2068** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 9:34 pm

Die Fledermaus (The Bat, or The Revenge of the Bat) is by Johann Strauss. It's a typical operetta from Vienna

Sorry, stupid mistake Anna Roza, last month I went ro see Die Fledermouse and included the name in Wagner's list.

I should not trust in my weak memory, specially with names in foreign languages.

Agree with you, Italian Opera IMHO is absolutely soppy and weak, while Wagner and Orff are powerful and original.

I'm trying to convince my fiancee to let me find musicians willing to play parts of Carmina Burana in our wedding, she still doesn't accept.

Iv?n

PS: Yesterday I saw again in HBO "Meeting Venus", a not so good film, but one of the best Tanheusser Overtures I heard, also Kiri Te Kanawa is excelent playing Glenn Close voice.

zag · Post by **zag** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 1:07 am

good grief, no thanks.

but i do like orff :^o

peace
zag

Anna-Roza · Post by **Anna-Roza** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 8:48 pm

Ivan_2068 wrote: I'm trying to convince my fiancee to let me find musicians willing to play parts of Carmina Burana in our wedding, she still doesn't accept.

Great idea! I wish you convince her, that would be beautiful - Orff instead of Whitney Houston "I Will Always Love You" for example

Ivan_2068 wrote: PS: Yesterday I saw again in HBO "Meeting Venus", a not so good film, but one of the best Tanheusser Overtures I heard, also Kiri Te Kanawa is excelent playing Glenn Close voice.

I loved her in Losey's filming of "Don Giovanni" - great movie, also visually - gorgeous lanscapes and amazing, dark atmosphere.

Ivan_2068 · Post by **Ivan_2068** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 3:36 am

Whitney Houston "I Will Always Love You" for example

Yikes!!!!, thanks God she doesn't like that song, because refuse to marry with that music

I loved her in Losey's filming of "Don Giovanni" - great movie, also visually - gorgeous lanscapes and amazing, dark atmosphere.

Thanks for the tip, I found in Allmovie a place to buy the DVD cheap.

Iv