Anyone around here like operetta?

[FJO]

Does anyone around here even know what operetta is?

Comments welcome and appreciated.

 

[william the wie]

I like gilly & sully, does that count?

 

[FJO]

I like gilly & sully, does that count?

If you mean Gilbert and Sullivan, say so, rather than being a jackass.

 

[Harry Dresden]

liked Orpheus in the Underworld by Offenbach......some good music.......

 

[longknife]

I went to a couple as a kid with my foster father and thought they were okay,

Then, when I was stationed in Vienna, I attended a couple (can't remember which ones although I think one was by Mozart) and loved them. Setting and cast.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

I went to a couple as a kid with my foster father and thought they were okay,

Then, when I was stationed in Vienna, I attended a couple (can't remember which ones although I think one was by Mozart) and loved them. Setting and cast.

^^^^ W. A. Mozart did not compose Operetta he composed Operas, some for example might think that "Die Zauberflöte" is but it is not it is an Opera. So it was probably you hear and attend a concert that feature one of Johann Strauß II because he did compose 18 Operetta which include "Die Fledermaus", "Das Spitzentuch der Königin", "Waldmeister" which was Johannes Brahms favourite Operetta, "Indigo und die vierzig Räuber" etc I adore Brahms but cannot share his liking of certain Operetta. I cannot stand the majority of Operetta, my love of Opera cannot allow me to like Operetta with it's jokes and flower music and trivial and frivolity etc.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Does anyone around here even know what operetta is?

Comments welcome and appreciated.

I am not a fan of Operetta, this because of my love and deep respect for Opera, the Operetta has one aim and that is to amuse, the trivial and frivial and the music the same, also I add the British resorted to Operetta because they are devoid of soul and passion and have NEVER produced ONE Opera that is not embarrassing and excruciating and so they have Gilbert and Sullivan which I would not wish my worst enemy to have to listen to.

 

[Mindful]

Does anyone around here even know what operetta is?

Comments welcome and appreciated.

I am not a fan of Operetta, this because of my love and deep respect for Opera, the Operetta has one aim and that is to amuse, the trivial and frivial and the music the same, also I add the British resorted to Operetta because they are devoid of soul and passion and have NEVER produced ONE Opera that is not embarrassing and excruciating and so they have Gilbert and Sullivan which I would not wish my worst enemy to have to listen to.

We are devoid of soul and passion?

Try me.

 

[FJO]

Does anyone around here even know what operetta is?

Comments welcome and appreciated.

I am not a fan of Operetta, this because of my love and deep respect for Opera, the Operetta has one aim and that is to amuse, the trivial and frivial and the music the same, also I add the British resorted to Operetta because they are devoid of soul and passion and have NEVER produced ONE Opera that is not embarrassing and excruciating and so they have Gilbert and Sullivan which I would not wish my worst enemy to have to listen to.

Perhaps it is you who is devoid of soul and passion.

Or perhaps just a pretentious and phony snob.

 

[Mindful]

Lucy:

Did you never see Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia?

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Does anyone around here even know what operetta is?

Comments welcome and appreciated.

I am not a fan of Operetta, this because of my love and deep respect for Opera, the Operetta has one aim and that is to amuse, the trivial and frivial and the music the same, also I add the British resorted to Operetta because they are devoid of soul and passion and have NEVER produced ONE Opera that is not embarrassing and excruciating and so they have Gilbert and Sullivan which I would not wish my worst enemy to have to listen to.

We are devoid of soul and passion?

Try me.

Mindful darling I lived in London with the British for a while and to me you only show passion for football which domestically you have a good thing in the Premiership League but of course your National Team is CRAP but NOT as crap as San Marino and also passion for this television programme that I forget but it was in the second awful section of London after Hackney and some where in East London the programme is filmed, very depressing people in it all look like they have very terrible personal hygiene. I in a taxi one time and the driver thought he would take me in the wrong direction to get more money and so we were driving through this awful section of London and I say to him WTF what is this place? And he say this is Hackney.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Lucy:

Did you never see Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia?

Okay I will listen to this, and let you know.

 

[fncceo]

Americans typically refer to operettas as musical comedy or ‘musicals’.

Although operetta is an older form.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Does anyone around here even know what operetta is?

Comments welcome and appreciated.

I am not a fan of Operetta, this because of my love and deep respect for Opera, the Operetta has one aim and that is to amuse, the trivial and frivial and the music the same, also I add the British resorted to Operetta because they are devoid of soul and passion and have NEVER produced ONE Opera that is not embarrassing and excruciating and so they have Gilbert and Sullivan which I would not wish my worst enemy to have to listen to.

Perhaps it is you who is devoid of soul and passion.

Or perhaps just a pretentious and phony snob.

"Perhaps it is you who is devoid of soul and passion."

Impossible, I am Austrian and my Mama is German, impossible for this to be devoid of soul and passion. Opera GREAT Opera reduces people to tears, there are NO Richard Wagner Operas that do not reduce me to tears and 80% of W. A. Mozart Operas reduce me to tears and my favourite Opera Gaetano Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" reduces me to tears, this is because these Operas stir your VERY SOUL, they move your VERY BLOOD and are the affirmation of EXISTENCE itself, WTF without great Opera what else would there be to stir your SOUL and BLOOD to the point you would just be happy to die then because you can die completely fulfilled in the most organic sense. Great Opera ONLY matched by the births of my kidlets, literally.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Americans typically refer to operettas as musical comedy or ‘musicals’.

Although operetta is an older form.

I HATE musicals, they are ridiculous and are just for entertainment they have nothing in them that feed your mind or stir your soul, is it any wonder then that the Americans like that ridiculous British Gilbert and Sullivan, I would if forced the choice of being subjected to Gilbert and Sullivan or having the nine inch nail hammered into my head, I would say get the nail and the hammer and this is my head so hammer.

 

[fncceo]

are just for entertainment

All art is, at its core, meant to entertain a part of our soul.

I’d much rather see a high school production of ‘West Side Story’ than a Met production of ‘Alfonso und Estella’.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

are just for entertainment

All art is, at its core, meant to entertain a part of our soul.

I’d much rather see a high school production of ‘West Side Story’ than a Met production of ‘Alfonso und Estella’.

I love Franz Schubert but "Alfonso und Estrella" is not dramatic enough for me so no stir of the soul, I have a recording of it recorded in 1978 though but I would not hold the interest in going to watch it at an Opera House.

I one time saw the film of "West Side Story" this because I was told it was based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and I just thought everything to confusing and I was not certain where Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" was in this film with these New York Gangs, I like Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film of "Romeo and Juliet" very more much than I liked "West Side Story"

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

Does anyone around here even know what operetta is?

Comments welcome and appreciated.

I am not a fan of Operetta, this because of my love and deep respect for Opera, the Operetta has one aim and that is to amuse, the trivial and frivial and the music the same, also I add the British resorted to Operetta because they are devoid of soul and passion and have NEVER produced ONE Opera that is not embarrassing and excruciating and so they have Gilbert and Sullivan which I would not wish my worst enemy to have to listen to.

Perhaps it is you who is devoid of soul and passion.

Or perhaps just a pretentious and phony snob.

You should post in my Music thread, I am not listening to Opera 24/7 I do also like specific forms of Jazz but NOT New Orleans Jazz or Swing or most of BeBop I like Post BeBop and Modal Jazz and a lot of Free Jazz, I also have an obsession with American early 1960s Girl Groups eg. The Ronettes, The Shirelles etc and also I like American Blues Music from the early 1930s to the mid 1960s and also various types of Noise Music and also Neo-Classical Music.

Mindful he should post in the Music thread yes?

 

[fncceo]

I was not certain where Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" was in this film

• Romeo- Tony.
• Juliet-Maria.
• Montague Family- The Jets.
• Capulet Family- The Sharks.
• Paris- Chino.
• Tybalt- Bernardo.
• Mercutio- Riff.
• Nurse- Anita.

The ending was changed to allow Maria to live which, in my opinion, is a more poignant ending.

 

[equalizer_0]

Does anyone around here even know what operetta is?

No. The instruments are out of tune and the singers are screaming at the top of their lungs drinking herbal tea to soothe the polyps in their throat.

No. The word sounds Italian and the Mafia is sending the kneecap-crackers out to collect on payday loan debts.

Omerta.