Opera Or Not???

[PoliticalChic]

I look forward to listening to WQXR on Saturday....they play an opera.

Today...

• Stephen Sondheim’s 'Sweeney Todd'
• WQXR - New York's Classical Music Radio Station

Darn.


For me, opera must be Italian....maybe French....
...but not German, or Russian.....

...and NEVER English!


Sweeney Todd....English.....yechhhh.


So....if you like it in English....there's the link. You can have my spot.

 

[Pogo]

Not.
Sounds like a cross between screeching and bleating.

Now operetta (G&S) I can dig, because I grew up on it and it's got clever wordplay (in English). But the screeching, that's one of the two music genres I can't stand. Frankly I'd rather listen to pink noise.

 

[Fenton Lum]

Pass.

 

[MarathonMike]

I have a very narrow appreciation for opera. If it's Nessun Dorma sung by someone super awesome, I'm in.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Not.
Sounds like a cross between screeching and bleating.

Now operetta (G&S) I can dig, because I grew up on it and it's got clever wordplay (in English). But the screeching, that's one of the two music genres I can't stand. Frankly I'd rather listen to pink noise.

"Not.
Sounds like a cross between screeching and bleating."


Startling how consistently incorrect you can be.

For your edification......the sounds of heaven:

 

[PoliticalChic]

I have a very narrow appreciation for opera. If it's Nessun Dorma sung by someone super awesome, I'm in.

Funny that I posted Pavarotti's rendition before I read your post.....

 

[PoliticalChic]

Not.
Sounds like a cross between screeching and bleating.

Now operetta (G&S) I can dig, because I grew up on it and it's got clever wordplay (in English). But the screeching, that's one of the two music genres I can't stand. Frankly I'd rather listen to pink noise.

"Now operetta (G&S) I can dig,..."

OK....I admit I grew up with a lot of Gilbert and Sullivan....and loved memorizing 'model of a modern major- general.'
It was poetry to me.

I can listen to SOME English being sung....but not Sweeney Todd

 

[Pogo]

Not.
Sounds like a cross between screeching and bleating.

Now operetta (G&S) I can dig, because I grew up on it and it's got clever wordplay (in English). But the screeching, that's one of the two music genres I can't stand. Frankly I'd rather listen to pink noise.

"Now operetta (G&S) I can dig,..."

OK....I admit I grew up with a lot of Gilbert and Sullivan....and loved memorizing 'model of a modern major- general.'
It was poetry to me.

I can listen to SOME English being sung....but not Sweeney Todd

I like to say Bill Gilbert was the John Lennon of his time.
Or perhaps vice versa.

 

[Harry Dresden]

it depends on the Opera.....i would rather just hear the choice Arias and Music.....there are some great Overtures though.....like this one....

 

[PoliticalChic]

it depends on the Opera.....i would rather just hear the choice Arias and Music.....there are some great Overtures though.....like this one....

Very nice.

I often listen to Wm. Lawes when I'm posting....bet you'll like this, too...

 

[Harry Dresden]

it depends on the Opera.....i would rather just hear the choice Arias and Music.....there are some great Overtures though.....like this one....

Very nice.

I often listen to Wm. Lawes when I'm posting....bet you'll like this, too...

its nice but not my cup of tea.....classical music started for me about 60 years after this guy passed....around the turn of the century (1700)....Vivaldi,Bach,Scarlatti and Handel is were i begin......