Tonight at the Opera

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Could be afternoon to those unfortunate enough to live to the west. Yes - I suppose that could be.

..but
The effort continues to bring a little culture to this backwater of the internets.

So tonight
We bring you
Donizetti's Anna Bolena
Sit back and enjoy.


 
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Well - wonderful, right?

Such encouraging response from you all.
So much so
I'll make it a regular feature.

Every Tuesday?
What say...
 

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How can I love an artform that is so consistently, insistently cruel 2 its female characters???
They stab themselves, throw themselves on funeral pyres, go mad and die.
IMO operas the most misogynistic art form. period.
 

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How can I love an artform that is so consistently, insistently cruel 2 its female characters???
They stab themselves, throw themselves on funeral pyres, go mad and die.
IMO operas the most misogynistic art form. period.

Art is not sexistic. That is only your own interpretation....
 

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How can I love an artform that is so consistently, insistently cruel 2 its female characters???
They stab themselves, throw themselves on funeral pyres, go mad and die.
IMO operas the most misogynistic art form. period.

Times were hard for everyone !

Ever heard of the Amazon Women who just like you didn't think much about men- - - - - - -
 
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Well, kids
Can you believe it's Tuesday again already.
Well - it is. You don't have to believe it for it to be.

I thought
hows about an opera where everyone is happy all the time
..and no one dies.
then
I thought
How freeking boring that would be.

So tonight
We present
Verdi's La Traviata
Make yourself a big batch of popcorn
and enjoy the show: (poor Violetta. poor poor Violetta)

 
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A remarkable performance.

Let's meet again next Tuesday
..which you can believe is Tuesday
even if you think it isn't.
 

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Tonight
being Tuesday
We once again present the finest in Opera.

Now - it did come to mind that not all--yous-trolls
are fluent in the languages of Opera
and so
the story lines may be difficult to follow.
Pardons for that oversight.
So.....
I thought that I might present and Opera in English
..but lets hold on to that thought as we may have in store a very special treat in weeks to come.
Instead
..tonight I will include a synopsisisis
of tonight's musical tale

That of Floria Tosca.
The synops:
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The performance:

 
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Here it is - Tuesday Night again (How does it keep happening?).

...and tonight, in honor of the life and work of Justice Ginsburg
We present her favorite opera:

...The Marriage of Figaro

The synopsis:
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the performance:

 
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...and now
Tonight's presentation of Tuesday Night at the Opera
Dinizetti's L' elisir d'amore


Synopsis:
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The performance:
 
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Tonight
being Tuesday
We once again present the finest in Opera.

Now - it did come to mind that not all--yous-trolls
are fluent in the languages of Opera
and so
the story lines may be difficult to follow.
Pardons for that oversight.
So.....
I thought that I might present and Opera in English
..but lets hold on to that thought as we may have in store a very special treat in weeks to come.
Here we are in Week 6 of our 8 week series of the finest in Opera
..and tonight, as promised
we have an opera in English, for all-a-yous English speakers
presented by a special guest host
..a poster who needs no introduction
but who is here nonetheless getting one

..the internetz premier music aficionado..

..tune in at approximately 8 PM Eastern or maybe Central
for tonight's Tuesday Night at the Opera performance

..and be amaaaz'd
 

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Thanks for the intro, Doc. I'm afraid I've started late, more like Mountain time.

Hello, rapt audience, Doc speaks truly about the opera being in English due to its being a bit of a mash-up. The original score was composed by a Frenchman, Georges Bizet, about 1875 and the libretto, in French, by a couple of no-account Europeans of uncertain provence. Despite being French rather than German or Italian, the Gypsy cast has endeared itself to generations of opera lovers.

In the early 1940s the American Oscar Hammerstein II wrote a new libretto in a dialect of English that was his attempt at Ebonics, for a cast of African Americans, and it was staged a few times. And then in maybe 1954 Hollywood made a movie of Carmen, titled Carmen Jones. With a few exceptions such as Pearl Bailey, who both acted and sang, the movie cast were primarily actors who lip sync'd while other black opera singers sang for them.

Carmen Jones was a big deal to me, becase I had gone with my folks only a couple of years earlier to see the traditional opera Carmen, my first opera ever, and of course I couldn't understand a word of it.

And here we go.
 

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In my dreaming last night, I heard a smattering of polite applause. Thanks, you've been a lovely audience.

I expect to return for a matinee performance on Saturday, with a selection of rock interpretations of opera classics.