treeve
Major Contributor
Back in 1981, in politically torn Poland, with the waves
looming high of Solidarnosz, Lech Walesa, the hovering
satellite Soviet controls and the accusations of
corruption in Stanislaw Kania's government and scandals
emerging, I was in Warsaw, I was taken to the Teatr Wielki
(Opera Narodowa) to a special performance of Stanisław
Moniuszko's opera Halka (Helen), all part of the prize
tour of Poland, for an essay on the Plight of Children in
the World, and Poland's Architectural Heritage. It was
quite wonderful to be in that opera house, in a private box.
I have been a 'fan' of opera for some years. Partial (if that is the word) to Benjamin Britten, Giacomo Puccini, Serge Prokofiev, Alexander Borodin, Peter Tchaikovsky, Guiseppe Verdi, and Richard Wagner.... But, besides VHS and BBC broadcasts that was the only opera that I have ever attended. I have the whole 'Ring' on reel to reel, but without the stage settings and performance, it loses so much.
Many performances of arias, duets, choruses, marches, in all manner of mixes, but again a single song is nice, but like reading five pages in the middle of a novel.
However,
what do you like.
Opera?
Songs from the operas?
'I like Katherine Jenkins anyway, whatever she sings'.
I hate opera, gimme dat drum'n'bass, yo.
Alternatively
Wots Opera ... oo my brain urts ....
looming high of Solidarnosz, Lech Walesa, the hovering
satellite Soviet controls and the accusations of
corruption in Stanislaw Kania's government and scandals
emerging, I was in Warsaw, I was taken to the Teatr Wielki
(Opera Narodowa) to a special performance of Stanisław
Moniuszko's opera Halka (Helen), all part of the prize
tour of Poland, for an essay on the Plight of Children in
the World, and Poland's Architectural Heritage. It was
quite wonderful to be in that opera house, in a private box.
I have been a 'fan' of opera for some years. Partial (if that is the word) to Benjamin Britten, Giacomo Puccini, Serge Prokofiev, Alexander Borodin, Peter Tchaikovsky, Guiseppe Verdi, and Richard Wagner.... But, besides VHS and BBC broadcasts that was the only opera that I have ever attended. I have the whole 'Ring' on reel to reel, but without the stage settings and performance, it loses so much.
Many performances of arias, duets, choruses, marches, in all manner of mixes, but again a single song is nice, but like reading five pages in the middle of a novel.
However,
what do you like.
Opera?
Songs from the operas?
'I like Katherine Jenkins anyway, whatever she sings'.
I hate opera, gimme dat drum'n'bass, yo.
Alternatively
Wots Opera ... oo my brain urts ....
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