La Boheme

[GrumpyGregry]

I had to do an opera project at college. We had to go to see the magic flute. I listened to it days before and wondered how on earth I was going to be able to sit through it. I went to the live performance and was blown away. I have been asking Mr Walker to take me to the opera for 11 years. Am still waiting.

They make you read Shakespeare at school, then if you are lucky you go see the RSC do it live. The jokes are funny, your disbelief is suspended, and despite yourself you enjoy it. Opera and stage plays are 3, or possibly 4, dimensional experiences. Why we subtract one dimension and then force them on people is beyond me.

I've never enjoyed opera recordings of operas I haven't seen.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I had to do an opera project at college. We had to go to see the magic flute. I listened to it days before and wondered how on earth I was going to be able to sit through it. I went to the live performance and was blown away. I have been asking Mr Walker to take me to the opera for 11 years. Am still waiting.

They make you read Shakespeare at school, then if you are lucky you go see the RSC do it live. The jokes are funny, your disbelief is suspended, and despite yourself you enjoy it. Opera and stage plays are 3, or possibly 4, dimensional experiences. Why we subtract one dimension and then force them on people is beyond me.

I've never enjoyed opera recordings of operas I haven't seen.

 

[dellzeqq]

OK. Forget all the good advice above. Listen to me. Take a woman (or a man - half the audience is gay) to the Opera and you will have great sex afterwards. Not every opera. Madame Butterfly is good. But La Boheme is the best. It pays to stifle a sob when 'O Soave Fanciullla' gets going, but when that big note comes in all you really have to do is hold her hand....

Don't mess around catching the bus home. Have a taxi waiting by the door. Don't thank me.........


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD-CcKrndfA


this is a rather sedate version - the one that was on at Christmas had the two singers barely a lips length away from each other. It took supreme self control to watch it and keep your clothes on...

oh - just found this.
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_UtIy5VEz0
I think I'll just have to go for a lie down.......

 

[dellzeqq]

OK. Forget all the good advice above. Listen to me. Take a woman (or a man - half the audience is gay) to the Opera and you will have great sex afterwards. Not every opera. Madame Butterfly is good. But La Boheme is the best. It pays to stifle a sob when 'O Soave Fanciullla' gets going, but when that big note comes in all you really have to do is hold her hand....

Don't mess around catching the bus home. Have a taxi waiting by the door. Don't thank me.........


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD-CcKrndfA


this is a rather sedate version - the one that was on at Christmas had the two singers barely a lips length away from each other. It took supreme self control to watch it and keep your clothes on...

oh - just found this.
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_UtIy5VEz0
I think I'll just have to go for a lie down.......

 

[dellzeqq]

OK. Forget all the good advice above. Listen to me. Take a woman (or a man - half the audience is gay) to the Opera and you will have great sex afterwards. Not every opera. Madame Butterfly is good. But La Boheme is the best. It pays to stifle a sob when 'O Soave Fanciullla' gets going, but when that big note comes in all you really have to do is hold her hand....

Don't mess around catching the bus home. Have a taxi waiting by the door. Don't thank me.........


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD-CcKrndfA


this is a rather sedate version - the one that was on at Christmas had the two singers barely a lips length away from each other. It took supreme self control to watch it and keep your clothes on...

oh - just found this.
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_UtIy5VEz0
I think I'll just have to go for a lie down.......

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

Wow - how can such a petite looking woman have a voice as powerful as that????? Impressive stuff in that last link, dell.

Edit - and she's bloody gorgeous too, bonus! (sorry for lowering the tone)

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

Wow - how can such a petite looking woman have a voice as powerful as that????? Impressive stuff in that last link, dell.

Edit - and she's bloody gorgeous too, bonus! (sorry for lowering the tone)

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

Wow - how can such a petite looking woman have a voice as powerful as that????? Impressive stuff in that last link, dell.

Edit - and she's bloody gorgeous too, bonus! (sorry for lowering the tone)

 

[Andy in Sig]

This is what you need to know about opera:

1. It is crap.

2. It is mostly sung in foreign and even when it is sung in a sensible language you can't understand a word.

3. To prove the above beyond any reasonable doubt try the following:

a. Pretend you are a fat bloke and shout as loud as you can and in as deep a voice as you can manage, "Bwah ha ha ha hah"

b. Now pretend you are a fat bird and shout as loud as you can and in as high a voice as you can manage, "Bwee hee hee hee heeh".

That is the operatic experience. Tell your wife that you will gladly buy an extra ticket for her to be accompanied by one of her girlfriends who knows about the stuff. You can then go to the pub.

 

[Andy in Sig]

This is what you need to know about opera:

1. It is crap.

2. It is mostly sung in foreign and even when it is sung in a sensible language you can't understand a word.

3. To prove the above beyond any reasonable doubt try the following:

a. Pretend you are a fat bloke and shout as loud as you can and in as deep a voice as you can manage, "Bwah ha ha ha hah"

b. Now pretend you are a fat bird and shout as loud as you can and in as high a voice as you can manage, "Bwee hee hee hee heeh".

That is the operatic experience. Tell your wife that you will gladly buy an extra ticket for her to be accompanied by one of her girlfriends who knows about the stuff. You can then go to the pub.

 

[Andy in Sig]

This is what you need to know about opera:

1. It is crap.

2. It is mostly sung in foreign and even when it is sung in a sensible language you can't understand a word.

3. To prove the above beyond any reasonable doubt try the following:

a. Pretend you are a fat bloke and shout as loud as you can and in as deep a voice as you can manage, "Bwah ha ha ha hah"

b. Now pretend you are a fat bird and shout as loud as you can and in as high a voice as you can manage, "Bwee hee hee hee heeh".

That is the operatic experience. Tell your wife that you will gladly buy an extra ticket for her to be accompanied by one of her girlfriends who knows about the stuff. You can then go to the pub.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Dell's advice on La Boheme holds more than a little water. Sister in law used to be a costume maker at the Royal Opera House and we used to go lots to dress rehearsals. Certainly leaves you with more than a little va-va-voom whether your tiny hand is frozen or not. "Mimi!..... Mimi!....." Ace.

Anna Netrebko is the unfat lady singing btw.

Andy-in-Sig go to the London Coliseum and watch and listen to the ENO, sung in English with surtitles for the dull of hearing.You may revise your opinion.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Dell's advice on La Boheme holds more than a little water. Sister in law used to be a costume maker at the Royal Opera House and we used to go lots to dress rehearsals. Certainly leaves you with more than a little va-va-voom whether your tiny hand is frozen or not. "Mimi!..... Mimi!....." Ace.

Anna Netrebko is the unfat lady singing btw.

Andy-in-Sig go to the London Coliseum and watch and listen to the ENO, sung in English with surtitles for the dull of hearing.You may revise your opinion.

 

[theclaud]

I see Andy's demonstrating a subtle appreciation of the erotic...

 

[theclaud]

I see Andy's demonstrating a subtle appreciation of the erotic...