Beethoven? More Like HateHoven

[excalibur]

The insanity just keeps growing, finding new outlets. When will people finally stand up and say STOP!?

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Beethoven be racist. In fact, all opera be racist.​

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Of course, it ain’t black people saying that (the number of black opera fans is roughly equal to the number of black comedians named “Scoey”). No, it’s (of course) whites, once again charging in to eliminate nonexistent hate speech because they read Robin DiAngelo (the L. Ron Hubbard for impressionable, self-hating whites) and realized that they must become “clear” of racism.​

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The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art has taken a break from masking the faces on its paintings (in The Death of Socrates, the philosopher is commanding everyone to mask up!) to rewrite Beethoven. In the Met’s current presentation of the opera Fidelio, the borderline tards in charge of production have changed the story line and added dialogue to make the opera about BLM.​

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Beethoven’s original title of Fidelio was Leonore, oder der Triumph der Ehelichen Liebe. In English that’s Leonore, or The Triumph of Conjugal Love. The Met’s version is called Lemarcus, or The Triumph of Conjugal Visits.​

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And last week, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s presentation of Beethoven’s Ninth saw the original vocals removed and replaced with a rap about BLM and transgenderism.​

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Those decisions were made by the orchestra’s musical director, Marin Alsop, a Jewish lesbian.​

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Ode to Joy? More like Ode to Oy!​

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The “woking” of opera is the wave of the future among musical directors who have a deep abiding hatred of their genre. Still, it’ll be fun to see what comes next.​

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Word has it the Detroit Opera is preparing a production of Rossini’s Barbershop of Seville:​

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This is the barbershop of Seville,​

We’ll give you a fro, a fade, a frill.​

We’ll give you cornrows or a dread,​

And we’ll even shave your head.​

Niggaro niggaro niggaro!​

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And it’ll be interesting to see what the Oakland Opera House does with Puccini’s Madame Big-Butt-erfly.​

 

[White 6]

The insanity just keeps growing, finding new outlets. When will people finally stand up and say STOP!?

​

Beethoven be racist. In fact, all opera be racist.​

​

Of course, it ain’t black people saying that (the number of black opera fans is roughly equal to the number of black comedians named “Scoey”). No, it’s (of course) whites, once again charging in to eliminate nonexistent hate speech because they read Robin DiAngelo (the L. Ron Hubbard for impressionable, self-hating whites) and realized that they must become “clear” of racism.​

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The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art has taken a break from masking the faces on its paintings (in The Death of Socrates, the philosopher is commanding everyone to mask up!) to rewrite Beethoven. In the Met’s current presentation of the opera Fidelio, the borderline tards in charge of production have changed the story line and added dialogue to make the opera about BLM.​

​

Beethoven’s original title of Fidelio was Leonore, oder der Triumph der Ehelichen Liebe. In English that’s Leonore, or The Triumph of Conjugal Love. The Met’s version is called Lemarcus, or The Triumph of Conjugal Visits.​

​

And last week, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s presentation of Beethoven’s Ninth saw the original vocals removed and replaced with a rap about BLM and transgenderism.​

​

Those decisions were made by the orchestra’s musical director, Marin Alsop, a Jewish lesbian.​

​

Ode to Joy? More like Ode to Oy!​

​

The “woking” of opera is the wave of the future among musical directors who have a deep abiding hatred of their genre. Still, it’ll be fun to see what comes next.​

​

Word has it the Detroit Opera is preparing a production of Rossini’s Barbershop of Seville:​

​

This is the barbershop of Seville,​

We’ll give you a fro, a fade, a frill.​

We’ll give you cornrows or a dread,​

And we’ll even shave your head.​

Niggaro niggaro niggaro!​

​

And it’ll be interesting to see what the Oakland Opera House does with Puccini’s Madame Big-Butt-erfly.​

 

[fncceo]

the number of black opera fans is roughly equal to the number of black comedians named “Scoey”

In fact, Beethoven only wrote one opera, "Fidelio" and it's not that popular.

 

[White 6]

In fact, Beethoven only wrote one opera, "Fidelio" and it's not that popular.

No Opera fan. Last Opera attended was at Lake Geneva, and as before (only 2nd time tried) they lost me after the overture. Some Godawful German thing. I split and went to casino, since I was dressed respectably for a change. Memory says that was a losing night, there, too.
Here's my kind of Beethoven

 

[fncceo]

No Opera fan. Last Opera attended was at Lake Geneva, and as before (only 2nd time tried) they lost me after the overture. Some Godawful German thing. I split and went to casino, since I was dressed respectively for a change. Memory says that was a losing night, there, too.
Here's my kind of Beethoven

Opera is one of the world's loveliest of art forms. It combines great music, with a stage show of dance, and even special effects. Mozart's "Magic Flute" for example has a giant snake and fireworks on stage.

Not all Opera is good but, when it is good, it's fantastic.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

*****SMILE*****

 

[White 6]

Opera is one of the world's loveliest of art forms. It combines great music, with a stage show of dance, and even special effects. Mozart's "Magic Flute" for example has a giant snake and fireworks on stage.

Not all Opera is good but, when it is good, it's fantastic.

I took music appreciation in college and know you are correct and that I am probably clod by cultured standards, though it doesn't really bother me, even admitting same. While somewhat a fan of many symphony and chamber music classical pieces and composers, but just never got into operas. Probably from growing up in Paducah, not exactly a mecca of the cultural elite, and not being exposed to it, before patterns were established.

 

[fncceo]

I've been lucky enough to live in large cities most of my life. I got exposed to good art from my childhood. If I had grown up in Pig's Knuckle, Arkansas and only saw bad high school productions of "Oklahoma", I'm not sure I would appreciate music theater today.

That being said, nearly everything is available on The Internet these days. A world of great art is almost as available as porn.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

I've been lucky enough to live in large cities most of my life. I got exposed to good art from my childhood. If I had grown up in Pig's Knuckle, Arkansas and only saw bad high school productions of "Oklahoma", I'm not sure I would appreciate music theater today.

That being said, nearly everything is available on The Internet these days. A world of great art is almost as available as porn.

Opera doesn’t cut it on TV. It’s like hockey — you gotta see it live.

 

[fncceo]

Opera doesn’t cut it on TV. It’s like hockey — you gotta see it live.

My worst opera on TV moment was a presentation of "Tosca". The eponymous Tosca is a young (teenage), beautiful singer who commits suicide in defense of her own honor at the end of the opera.

Most opera singers aren't young, only a few are what you would call beauties, but the distance from the stage allows the audience to embrace the illusion.

TV close-ups, showing every line and wrinkle in the soprano's face and her less than girlish figure, made it much more difficult to hold on to the image of Tosca as a pure and virginal beauty.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Opera like all classical music was written by dead white men and therefore racist.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

My worst opera on TV moment was a presentation of "Tosca". The eponymous Tosca is a young (teenage), beautiful singer who commits suicide in defense of her own honor at the end of the opera.

Most opera singers aren't young, only a few are what you would call beauties, but the distance from the stage allows the audience to embrace the illusion.

TV close-ups, showing every line and wrinkle in the soprano's face and her less than girlish figure, made it much more difficult to hold on to the image of Tosca as a pure and virginal beauty.

Since you’re a fan of opera, here’s a truncated version of Madame Butterfly. Given that this arrangement was created by the manager of the Sex Pistols and the New York Dolls, it’s probably better in this format than as a stage production…