Greypins@a... wrote:
> peggy,
>
> please tell me you're kidding. in that production, she may have used
> more energy than most other opera singers do in other roles but, she did not
> use as much energy as a professional basketball player does in a game (unless
> you're talking about someone like chuck nevitt).
I may be wrong, but I'm not kidding. Figaro runs just under
3 hours plus two 20-minute intermissions (at the Met at
least). A basketball game is one hour with three breaks
between the 15-minute periods. And there are a lot of stops
and starts in play during the periods, for fouls,
out-of-bounds, travelling calls, etc. So there's 15 minutes
of play spread out over a half an hour or so. And most
players don't play the entire 60 minutes. I think there's a
chance of equivalence. The basketball player uses more
energy in shorter bursts, the opera singer perhaps a similar
amount of energy spread out over a longer period. A little
like, say, a long distance run?
Peggy
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Margaret Harrison, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
"Music for a While Shall All Your Cares Beguile"
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