WHY DON'T A LOT OF PEOPLE SUPPORT OPERA MUSIC?
March 22nd, 2010
Natalie Dessay sings Les Oiseaux Dans La Charmille from Les Contes d'Hoffman (watch until the end for her phenomenal Ab7!)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RxB4OI_SW7...
Sumi Jo sings Der Holle Rache from Die Zauberflote:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8xILc1_kV6...
I hope I can be half as good as them some day! =) x
Opera is not entirely in keeping with the modern temperament. For one thing, operas are long. For another, many of them are still sung in Italian. For another, the trilling and other techniques opera singers use seem contrived to the modern ear. I like some operas - Carmen is a blast,and Wagner's operas are still powerful. "The Magic Flute" by Mozart is worth listening to over and over. However I thought the obese Pavarotti was very poorly cast as Samson.
For the most part, operas have been replaced by musicals. The songs are more accessible, most musicals have a good deal of humor, and the stories are contemporary.
The arts and opera ARE well supported - especially in Europe - and they get a vast amount of support both financially (including sponsorship and taxpayer money), as well as with training upcoming singers. Plus a lot of well-known singers have their own 'new rising star' type of scholarships;a and there's competitions all the time.
But I agree that opera seems to be a second cousin to musicals. Perhaps they are less demanding on the listener. And are mostly sung in English, so there's no need for surtitles.
What you're arguing here is taste, and there's really no arguing it. I have my own tastes; I hate just about every opera written between Mozart and Britten (Bizet and Wagner excepted), give me some good Menotti and I'm rather satisfied.
Go rent "Pretty Woman" and see what Richard Gere says to Julia Roberts about opera. I think it was right.
like i personally don't listen to Opera music. but i do say that they are talented.
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