opera

@lemondrop said
I'm liking it
so far La Boheme is my fav

If you're being serious, then it has to be Puccini's Madama Butterfly.

YouTube

@ghost-of-a-duke said
If you're being serious, then it has to be Puccini's Madama Butterfly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLcbfF9ypmM

that's my moms favorite
and I am serious
I remember her crying while watching it

@lemondrop said
that's my moms favorite
and I am serious
I remember her crying while watching it

My mom's favourite is Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti.

That was the only opera I had been exposed to as child.

the following, while a true story, has had the names, places, and events all changed because it sounds so cool
i accidently attended the barber of seville opera at bass hall in ft worth one time
when one of the excellent songs would end i would stand up and whoop and holler
the folks kept hushing me
it twern't all that much fun

@gambrel said
If Elmer Fudd singing,"Kill the Wabbit" counts. I've been to the opera.

Frankly, if that doesn't count, nothing does. If you've seen that film, you've heard all you need to hear of Richard "des belles moments, mais des mauvais quarts d'heures" Wagner.

@ponderable said
To quote a bonmot, whose originator I don't find (since I don't know the original language I have herad it in three that I recollect):

In an opera singers act, in a musical actors sing.

Funny thing about that - originally, opera was meant to be a play with music, not music acted.

In the Renaissance, they misinterpreted a thing or two about classical Greek theatre. In this case, they believed it was sung throughout. We now know it wasn't, but they had many fewer sources to go on. So, to "emulate" that, they chose to set their own plays to music.

Therefore, back in Monteverdi's days, opera too was where actors sang.

(And I still maintain that if you can't act or emote, get TF off the stage and back into the concert hall. Yes, Paul Potts, that's you. And you, Sarah Brightman.)

@lemondrop said
that's my moms favorite
and I am serious
I remember her crying while watching it

Good opera will do that to you. I can't listen to "When I am laid" without choking a bit. (Of course, that was the intent. Same thing with the closing chorus of the Mattæus - which isn't an opera, but still.)

@great-big-stees said
Which one...Coronation Street?🤔

costipation street is pants I prefer Hemmaroid farm

Puccini's Tosca is my favorite opera. Favorite musical is West Side Story.

Oh, I thought the thread was about the web browser.

Sorry. 😲

Turandot
Rusalka
La Traviata
Carmen
The entire Ring Cycle
Barber of Seville
Marriage of Figaro
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@suzianne said
Oh, I thought the thread was about the web browser.

Sorry. 😲

Umm, take it to Technology, Spanky.

my new favorite
Rigoletto