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by **FlyingSorcery** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:25 pm

Oh yeah -- ticket prices are killers. $$ is the reason the only live performances I've seen in the past few years is while chaperoning "delightful" :roll:

middle school students. My parents live near LA and I would quite happily take a week off. Unfortunately the only person I could get to go with me is the above mentioned daughter, now 19 and at university 700+ miles away.

Uhm, OT, I would have to FIND the tapes first. And they are over 12 years old, so I couldn't guarantee the quality.

by **OperaTenor** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 4:32 pm

FlyingSorcery wrote:Uhm, OT, I would have to FIND the tapes first. And they are over 12 years old, so I couldn't guarantee the quality.

So, aside from that potentially mitigating factor, you wouldn't mind having several strangers come camp out in your home for a few days?

Wow, you're pretty easygoing!

:sombrero:

by **FlyingSorcery** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:06 pm

You haven't met my dog.

Or the neighbor with the drum fetish. :thumbdown:

Or the resident teenager with PMS :banghead:

And you thought it would be a fun evening :rofl:

by **BigJon** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 10:29 pm

I always thought Götterdämmerung would be a great user ID. It sounds like you are swearing with great vigor. I may reregister . . .

by **shostakovich** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:21 pm

I subscribe to the description of Wagner as a great composer and a mediocre poet. That explains why the highlights are wonderful, but the looooong stretches between them are painful.

The Ring lasts about 18 hours without intermissions. There are about 2-3 hours of highlights. If you're watching, there's somethink to occupy your attention. If you're just listening, you have my sympathy.
Shos

by **bignaf** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:40 pm

I wouldn't say he's a mediocre poet. he's awful! he brings a new meaning tothe word awful! as bad as some Vogon poetry.

by **dai bread** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:28 pm

Just as well I don't read German then! I follow the libretto & read the English translation, which doesn't pretend to be poetry.

And there's always plenty to watch in the Theatre of the Mind.

by **bignaf** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 10:37 am

It's awful even as prose. as regards pacing etc.

by **dai bread** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:27 pm

http://www.daisyfield.com/music/jpm/Puccini.htm

This is a little sidelight on a Puccini opera for O.T. It's something I didn't know, though I expect he does.

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