Opera anyone?

Kebabkid

I don't mind it and tend to prefer male voices to female, although Jessye Norman has a stunning voice and the Queen of the Night aria from The Magic Flute always flaws me for sheer technique! 

Even if I do say so myself, *Mrs.KK has a lovely, smooth voice (trained as an opera singer). This isn't the best vehicle for *her voice but it was a bit of fun and some session work, but you get the gist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfe-7kYcCrI

ftumch

holnrew;58949" said:

I don't like Opera, or musicals. I don't like story telling through song.

Operation Mindcrime?

viz

Great album as @Mike_L will testify.

 

And what about humpty dumpty?

Handsome_Chris

holnrew said:

I don't like Opera, or musicals. I don't like story telling through song.

Don't listen to any Iron Maiden then, and definately do not go anywhere near any prog rock.

You should be safe with Def Leppard and Wham.

Rocker

ftumch said:

I just bought three compilation albums of aria's, triggered somehow by the thread on singing two notes at once, strange how my mind works and I use the word works in the loosest possible sense. Anyway just wondering, anyone else into opera? It never fails to move me, don't know why I've never dipped my toe in before.

To be honest Opera or Ballet does not 'do it' for me yet I love Classical music.  Specifically piano music.  I could, and did, listen to Chopin or Beethoven all evening.  I often listened to the late Tommie O'Brien speaking, on RTE radio, about his love of Opera.  He managed to hear most of the top Opera singers in London and the way he spoke of them and their voices, made me feel a little envious.  Envious that he got so much enjoyment from a musical genre that means nothing to me.  But as someone once said, it is only music notes, the same notes that we use to play trad Irish or Rock music.  We put them in a different order.

mike_l

viz said:

Great album as @Mike_L will testify.

 

Damn right, a personal favourite album, as is Mindcrime 2, but that works best as a follow-on listen (IE listen to 1 then 2 back-to-back).

 

I also really like "The Wall" by Pink Floyd.

holnrew

Well, I can still enjoy the music. But the music in musicals is gash and opera singers hurt my ears after a while.

Kebabkid

Queen's "A Night at the Opera" anyone?

ToneControl

@viz ;
@Gassage ;
seen this one? The Wall done as opera:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39375254

57Deluxe

Go Compare! - the Opera....

http://cdn.images.dailystar.co.uk/dynamic/117/photos/588000/620x/55b8e71944299_ScreenShot20150729at15.13.53.jpg

boogieman

I grew up listening to opera as my dad absolutely loved it. Tbh I never listen to any of it these days, although certain songs will always bring back memories of my dad, blasting out opera on the stereo on a Sunday morning and bellowing along. He didn't have a bad voice as it happens, shame I didn't inherit it. I can't listen to Nessun Dorma now without fillng up, we had it played at dad's funeral and it's forever linked with it. 

Telejester

ftumch said:

I just bought three compilation albums of aria's, triggered somehow by the thread on singing two notes at once, strange how my mind works and I use the word works in the loosest possible sense. Anyway just wondering, anyone else into opera? It never fails to move me, don't know why I've never dipped my toe in before.

If i want to fall asleep immediately opera works every time, that or mariah carey.

marantz1300

I went to see Madam Butterfly with my wife.

It was magical,

merlin

ftumch said:

not sure how many jolly drinking songs thee are in a typical opera but I'm not really interested in those. 

Here's one....



I'm love opera. I stayed two extra days in Bratislava last week at the end of a tour in order to go and hear my good friend Linda Ballova sing the lead role in "The Makropolous Case". I understand what people don't like about the singing style and my Music History tutor in college used to call it "controlled shouting"... but I love it. Can't help myself. 

My wife and I both love it and go whenever we can afford it!

scrumhalf

I used to like opera but these days I favour Firefox.

Jeremiah

I went to see Tristan and Isolde for my sister's birthday. I guess I can now cross it off my list of "things to do before I die," but I doubt I'll be going again.

VimFuego

Jeremiah said:

I went to see Tristan and Isolde for my sister's birthday. I guess I can now cross it off my list of "things to do before I die," but I doubt I'll be going again.

I think it's the usual thing to turn up to more than 1 birthday.

Luminous

ftumch said:

Not sure I'm ready for a full opera yet, I'd love to go though. I like the songs of heartbreak and tragedy, I'm ripe for a good cry, not sure how many jolly drinking songs thee are in a typical opera but I'm not really interested in those. Also don't like nessun dorma, mentally I link it to football which I can't stand.

You want Tosca then..

Luminous

I'm writing one....here's a very rough draft of the opening overture.

ewal

I was at a performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah at the weekend - as an oratorio it has a lot of similarities with opera. I really enjoyed the orchestral and choral pieces, however the solo arias and recitatives left me completely cold. Therefore I am still the heathen I always thought I was.