OPERA COMPETITION

by **philipchevron** Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:57 pm

I liked FIDELIO, after a shaky start. The Finnish soprano (don't ask me to approximate her name) worked her ass off and the 2nd Act was genuinely engaging.

by **CraigBatty** Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:31 pm

Thanks for the review Mr. C. How's the burger, though? :lol:

by **philipchevron** Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:29 pm

It was not Frank Loesser at his best and the production was a bit Summer Stock, but Paul Sorvino was engaging. Afterwards, myself and Nora Meyers reenacted De Niro's Taxi Driver in 42nd Street for her, if you will, Poguementary. Now I'm having a burger.

by **carol** Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:03 pm

Fintan wrote:Oh THANK you, Carol. That was buggin' me.....of COURSE. D'oh!

's no problem, Fintan. 's no problem at all. :wink:

by **CraigBatty** Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:46 pm

Oh THANK you, Carol. That was buggin' me.....of COURSE. D'oh!

by **carol** Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:44 pm

Fintan wrote:Nice one. Loesser? Why's that name ring such a bell? Pardon my ignorance, which is slack given that I grew up in a musical theatre kinda family. He sounds really familiar. Anyhoo, enjoy both then

Off the top o' my head, I know he did a lot (perhaps all) o' the music/lyrics for Guys and Dolls, and he wrote the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside."

by **CraigBatty** Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:57 pm

Nice one. Loesser? Why's that name ring such a bell? Pardon my ignorance, which is slack given that I grew up in a musical theatre kinda family. He sounds really familiar. Anyhoo, enjoy both then

by **philipchevron** Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:29 pm

Fintan wrote:So Mr C. have you been to the Met yet? How was big Luddy van's opera?

That be Monday. Today I'm seeing Paul Sorvino in Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella at Lincoln Center.

by **CraigBatty** Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:46 am

So Mr C. have you been to the Met yet? How was big Luddy van's opera?

by **CraigBatty** Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:12 pm

Alex wrote:...their daily practise of his Requiem for their show with the choir... "Dies Ire"

by **Alex** Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:59 pm

Eyeball_Kid wrote:Danke. Es geht mir gut, Herr Fintan.
indeed, some boring old fart is getting really old this year. The city of Salzburg has decided to honour him with this statue:

Gruß,
Herr eyeball_kid

I even experience his anniversary when I'm at my parents house and they are doing their daily practise of his Requiem for their show with the choir... "Dies Ire" :lol:

by **Eyeball_Kid** Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:19 pm

Danke. Es geht mir gut, Herr Fintan.
indeed, some boring old fart is getting really old this year. The city of Salzburg has decided to honour him with this statue:

Gruß,
Herr eyeball_kid

by **CraigBatty** Tue Mar 14, 2006 6:57 pm

Eyeball_Kid wrote:...having been born in Salzburg (advice: don't come here this year!)...

Morgen/Abend Herr/Frau/Fraulein Eyeball. Wie gehts es ihnen? I visited Salzburg once for a day to visit the Tiergarten back in 1980 sometime.
Busy year, eh? Remind ignorant old me, is it someone's multi-centenary birth year or summat? :lol:

by **Eyeball_Kid** Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:36 pm

I saw Fidelio once but I didn't like it. I remember one quartet (?) being particularly atrocious. Ludwig really shouldn't have bothered.
Maybe I'm a bit biased as well, having been born in Salzburg (advice: don't come here this year!).

And I only listened to Berg's Wozzeck which I believe would be more enjoyable with visuals.

by **philipchevron** Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:41 pm

Christine wrote:
philipchevron wrote:I'm seeing Fidelio at the Met next week, so that will have to compensate.

You get to hear the Pogues - doesn't that compensate?
I always thought Fidelio was strictly for my parents' generation only, and for couples married no less than 50 years at that. But I see it's Flimm, so should be fantastic, hope you enjoy it!

Aw y'know.....when a guy like Beethoven, who has zero sense of stagecraft, troubles himself to write an opera (just the one, mind) you gotta be at least interested. :wink:

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