Opera is not only the audience's grandiose fantasies, But most definately the Singers......That's why I love it.....Bobby,Philly
RALUCOB@a... wrote: RALUCOB@a... wrote:
> lloyd, > > you make opera sound delicious. there are a number of points that i > could argue with you on but, i would actually rather share with you, things i > still love about opera. > > probably the thing that i appreciate about opera the most, on a > philosophical level as well as a visceral level, is its excess. it always > goes as far as you'd want it to go. (not in every case. there is a lot of > opera i could really do without- don pasquale, for example). but, the > 'liebestod' still causes a physical reaction all over me everytime i hear it. > i read somewhere that, at one time, puccini wanted the 1st act of boheme to > end without the voices singing their last 'amors'. i have never heard it > that way but, it sounds perfect in my mind. > > probably the most, i don't know what to call it, experience for me in > opera, was being figaro in mozart's opera. there we were, figaro and > susanna, standing together, alone in the garden, completely unaware of the > rest of the world (including the audience). i felt a breeze on my cheek > that i have only felt on cool summer nights in the berkshires. that's what > i wanted my real life to be like. > > thanks, > mike > >
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