Some thoughts about opera.

[Boris Godunov]

Quit spamming, you browser geeks.

[SpencerH]

Yeah, come on! Be fair! There's only this one thread, and maybe one other, about the subject.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by JohnT
<--- Possibly the only person in America who has gone to Opera's, but has never been to a rock concert.

What can I say? I'm a Deadhead who listens to bluegrass, Zydeco, blues, Mexican redneck music, U2, Hendrix and the Doors, bagpipes and Indian and African ethnic music, and I have orchestra section season tickets to the SD Opera.

Oh, and I think Lynyrd Skynyrd rules too. So

[Bereta_Eder]

Sweet home alabama, when ophelia turns blue

[JohnT]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat


What can I say? I'm a Deadhead who listens to bluegrass, Zydeco, blues, Mexican redneck music, U2, Hendrix and the Doors, bagpipes and Indian and African ethnic music, and I have orchestra section season tickets to the SD Opera.

Oh, and I think Lynyrd Skynyrd rules too. So

It's not the type of music that bothers me (eg, I'm a big U2 as well), it is the volume that really, really gets to me.

Otoh, the Doors are the most overrated pretentious piece of shiite band in the history of Rock and Roll. So there!

[Ted Striker]

bluegrass

"PLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY FREEEEEEEBIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!"

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by JohnT
Otoh, the Doors are the most overrated pretentious piece of shiite band in the history of Rock and Roll. So there!

Damn, and here I was all set to defect to the Republican party, but you guys confirm you have no taste.

[Ecthy]

The Doors

Lynyrd Skynyrd

The Republican Party

[Q Classic]

it's a beautiful browser.

and as for the other kind...

i love the music... and i'm saddened when it's ruined by those damned prima donnas who think they can sing.

[monolith94]

Paiktis - check out "A Night at the Opera"... it's hysterical!

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
i love the music... and i'm saddened when it's ruined by those damned prima donnas who think they can sing.

You must be listening to the wrong singers. Have you ever heard Cecilia Bartoli do La Ceneratola? Or Tatyana Troyanos do Carmen? Or Renata Tebaldi do Madama Butterfly? Or Leontyne Price do Aida? Or Monserrat Caballe do, well, anything?

I assure you these women can sing quite, quite well.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by monolith94
Paiktis - check out "A Night at the Opera"... it's hysterical!

How fitting they chose Verdi's il Trovatore to lampoon, since its plot is so atrociously ludicrous as to be easy prey for satire!

[Solly]

MtG, never try to get a meal in Greece...it'll take them from 7pm to 9pm to bring you your main course They are lazy down there, the Grecians..

[Firelad]

I saw an opera in the Caesaria amphitheatre. And damn me I forgot the name. I always forget the name. The one with the chinese name. That the apprentice ruined the ending cuz the author died. Puccini wasn't it? I can't remember...

[Buck Birdseed]

I once left half-way through an opera. Never done that at a rock concert! Except at, like, festivals. But they don't count.

The Doors, bluegrass, zydeco

U2, Henrix, bagpipes, Lynyrd Skynyrd

I'm not sure what "ethnic" music is, but I'd tentantively thumbs up large part of the pop output of africa and india. Tanzanian Bongo Flava Hip-Hop, Bhangra, mmm.