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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: My First Opera posted by Karma16 on April 22, 2007 at 08:17:31:
"Flute" is a lighthearted comedy with some solemn moments (Sarastro's big aria), but mainly a fantasy, an entertainment.It contains some of the greatest and most difficult music for singers ever composed. I doubt your students could provide the likes of Wunderlich or Roswaenge for a Tamino, Pinza or Talvela for Sarastro, or Roberta Peters as the Queen of the Night. If you can't perform the music it makes little impression.
You like the last three Mozart symphonies? The Overture is a miniature symphony, equal to the composer's best and most mature. It takes a great conductor to bring it off, and maybe one was lacking in your student production.
"Flute" is a monument of Western culture, an inexhaustible treasure. Sorry it came across to you as less than that.
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- Re: My First Opera - Brian Cheney 10:07:42 04/22/07 (27)
- Re: My First Opera - Karma16 16:23:32 04/22/07 (26)
- **He is, generally, greatly overrated, IMO** - C.B. 10:58:22 04/23/07 (4)
- Re: **He is, generally, greatly overrated, IMO** - Karma16 11:13:53 04/23/07 (3)
- **But why would I have any reason at all to close off myself from music I secretly consider great? ** - C.B. 12:11:54 04/23/07 (1)
- Re: **But why would I have any reason at all to close off myself from music I secretly consider great? ** - Karma16 12:25:01 04/23/07 (0)
- "Life's too short to listen to music that one doesn't like"?... - SE 11:45:00 04/23/07 (0)
- Mozart and his talent - TGR 18:17:18 04/22/07 (0)
- Re: My First Opera - Brian Cheney 18:01:27 04/22/07 (19)
- Give up the argument, you lose. - Larry I 14:24:45 04/23/07 (2)
- Re: Give up the argument, you lose. - Brian Cheney 20:27:13 04/23/07 (1)
- Re: Give up the argument, you lose. - Pat D 06:46:18 04/24/07 (0)
- Re: My First Opera - Karma16 19:09:21 04/22/07 (9)
- The Sparks are Flying... - SE 04:19:16 04/23/07 (8)
- Re: The Sparks are Flying... - Karma16 06:16:38 04/23/07 (7)
- I will only say this... - SE 06:34:27 04/23/07 (6)
- In Reply to SE (this is getting interesting) - Karma16 07:55:05 04/23/07 (5)
- Well, I don't agree with your last statement... - SE 10:32:39 04/23/07 (4)
- Re: Well, I don't agree with your last statement... - Karma16 10:50:20 04/23/07 (3)
- Age happens, as does change... - SE 11:20:49 04/23/07 (2)
- Re: Age happens, as does change... - Karma16 12:34:17 04/23/07 (1)
- "Maybe I just don't like the Classical period at all." That COULD be. n/t - SE 13:08:32 04/23/07 (0)
- Re: My First Opera - Karma16 18:51:32 04/22/07 (5)
- That's the "Mozart was CLEVER...not deeply dramatic" view... - SE 04:13:27 04/23/07 (4)
- Re: That's the "Mozart was CLEVER...not deeply dramatic" view... - Karma16 06:00:02 04/23/07 (3)
- Agreed. What we've hit upon here is the distinction between... - SE 06:25:58 04/23/07 (2)
- Mozart "constrained by [his] own system"? - rbolaw 07:26:49 04/24/07 (1)
- I don't disagree with anything you said... - SE 10:06:46 04/24/07 (0)
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