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In Reply to: It's funny... posted by SE on May 7, 2002 at 11:02:44:
Well no but...Some where there is a famous Bruckner story that goes some thing like this:
When Bruckner was seeing Die Walkure for the first time he was in a trance overwhelmed by the Opera, near the end of the Opera Bruckner he was jostled out of his concentration and turned to a friend and asked "Why is that woman on that rock"
I am unlike Bruckner in many ways. One of them is that I do need to know, at least, the details of the story before enjoying the Opera - especially Wagner. I really wanted to listen to and learn Debussy's Pelleas, I had a weekend to myself so I went to the local (NYC) used record store, unfortunately they only had the Karajan version on EMI, OK expensive, but I wanted to get to work. I checked to make sure that it had a libretto and I was off, I neglected to check if the libretto was in English. An English company made a libretto in French/German only. I could not get past the first half of the first side, I was maddened by the mystery of what was going on. So back to Tristan.
The Ring remains one of my favorite works of Music, but one enriched by a general understanding of what is going on. The video, as mentioned, would be an excellent tool. For me the abstract music of the singing is heightened with even a general knowledge of the content of the text. A rough example, have you ever passed by two people having an argument in a foreign language only to realize, buy visual clues, that it is not a confrontation but a conversation. Without an idea of the verbal clues the possibility is much greater that Wagner will seem like bombast and growling.P.S. I am not an Opera listener by nature, but Wagner is different. Maybe start with Sigfried, it's the most fun
Gregg
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