Operatic Irony for Pepe - not cancer related

Doc_Hawk
Doc_Hawk Member Posts: 685
edited September 2012 in Colorectal Cancer #1
On the weekend plans post, Pepe and I got to discussing Wagner's Ring Cycle. I was even thinking about for this weekends fantasy, including going to Sydney to catch the Ring Cycle there. Now, this week PBS is airing the Cycle, one performance each evening! I'm about to spend the next four nights in melodramatic heaven!

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  • maglets
    maglets Member Posts: 2,576 Member
    #2
    Wagner
    hahah we operatic nutbars should stick together.

    Our first live broadcast from the Met comes to our local cinema. It is Donizetti's Elixir of Love....a little lighter fare than the ring...

    good luck with that my friend.....

    mags
  • abrub
    abrub Member Posts: 2,174 Member
    #3
    Hoping to get to the Met in October
    Need to be in NYC on the 10th, may go to the opera on the 9th (Otello).
  • Doc_Hawk
    Doc_Hawk Member Posts: 685
    #4
    maglets said:

    Wagner
    hahah we operatic nutbars should stick together.

    Our first live broadcast from the Met comes to our local cinema. It is Donizetti's Elixir of Love....a little lighter fare than the ring...

    good luck with that my friend.....

    mags

    Opera on the big screen
    Down in Phoenix, they have a few select theaters that will run several opera each season. Here in Utah it seems that most people think the word "Opera" should be followed by Winfrey.

    Lasts airing of Das Rheingold was absolutely magnificent, performed on a set which required wire work in several scenes. The set would change for each act, while the performers were still on stage and the whole production was without a break or intermission. Just think "Cirque d'Soliel goes to the opera."
  • Doc_Hawk
    Doc_Hawk Member Posts: 685
    #5
    abrub said:

    Hoping to get to the Met in October
    Need to be in NYC on the 10th, may go to the opera on the 9th (Otello).

    Otello
    I'd love to see Otello, my second fave from Verdi (after Aida) but featuring the greatest villain of all time, Iago! If I ever got into acting, that's the role I'd want the most.
  • pepebcn
    pepebcn Member Posts: 6,331 Member
    #6
    Doc_Hawk said:

    Otello
    I'd love to see Otello, my second fave from Verdi (after Aida) but featuring the greatest villain of all time, Iago! If I ever got into acting, that's the role I'd want the most.

    LOL. Doc !
    Like your funny comments about "Opra", hahaha!
    Maglets you never come any more to my Friday,s wire but there was a post last Friday to you about Wagner!.
    Hugs to all despite Maglets does not deserve it! LoL. ( love you mags)
  • abrub
    abrub Member Posts: 2,174 Member
    #7
    Doc_Hawk said:

    Otello
    I'd love to see Otello, my second fave from Verdi (after Aida) but featuring the greatest villain of all time, Iago! If I ever got into acting, that's the role I'd want the most.

    Just saw Aida on the "Small Stage"
    Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, NY is a small, dedicated opera house that has world class performers (Derborah Voight last year, several big names (but I've blanked out on them) this year.) It is a summer only venue, and this year, I saw Lost in the Stars (Weill) and Aida (Verdi). Loved them both. Need to check our plans, but we may get to Otello if we decide to go to NYC the night before our luncheon. I'm loving opera more and more.
  • pepebcn
    pepebcn Member Posts: 6,331 Member
    #8
    abrub said:

    Just saw Aida on the "Small Stage"
    Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, NY is a small, dedicated opera house that has world class performers (Derborah Voight last year, several big names (but I've blanked out on them) this year.) It is a summer only venue, and this year, I saw Lost in the Stars (Weill) and Aida (Verdi). Loved them both. Need to check our plans, but we may get to Otello if we decide to go to NYC the night before our luncheon. I'm loving opera more and more.

    Hi Alice ,we have the whole troup of bayreuth here in the
    Opera house, chorus and orchetsa celebrating Wagner,s 200 despite I like very much opera and love certain pieces of Wagner I don't think I can hold a full Wagner opera!LOL. They are scoring the Whole Nibelung Ring!
  • maglets
    maglets Member Posts: 2,576 Member
    #9
    pepebcn said:

    Hi Alice ,we have the whole troup of bayreuth here in the
    Opera house, chorus and orchetsa celebrating Wagner,s 200 despite I like very much opera and love certain pieces of Wagner I don't think I can hold a full Wagner opera!LOL. They are scoring the Whole Nibelung Ring!

    ohhhhNOOOOO
    helpppp...I have been kicked out of the pack.....please opera buffs don't let pepe turf me out!!!! hahha

    I am a complete belle canto .....I like Donizetti and of course Rossini but also big big fan of Verdi. A friend just loaned me his dvd of Traviata with Stratas and Domingo by Zeffirelli...absolutely stunning....

    also I love Baroque opera and Mozart too

    gosh I am with peps.....don't know if I could make it through a full Wagner....

    will hunt up our season from the Met Doc

    I love you pepe and I will be good.......

    mags
  • abrub
    abrub Member Posts: 2,174 Member
    #10
    maglets said:

    ohhhhNOOOOO
    helpppp...I have been kicked out of the pack.....please opera buffs don't let pepe turf me out!!!! hahha

    I am a complete belle canto .....I like Donizetti and of course Rossini but also big big fan of Verdi. A friend just loaned me his dvd of Traviata with Stratas and Domingo by Zeffirelli...absolutely stunning....

    also I love Baroque opera and Mozart too

    gosh I am with peps.....don't know if I could make it through a full Wagner....

    will hunt up our season from the Met Doc

    I love you pepe and I will be good.......

    mags

    Let me know when you're going to the Met
    We come down, too, and haven't yet planned our opera season.

    Sorry, Pepe, I'm not a big Wagner fan. But I love Bizet, Donizetti, Rossini, Verdi, Mozart, and many others. We actually flew to Paris for the opera a few years back (Charpentier's Louisa) - o, I loved it! It was also my re-entry into life, a celebration of finishing chemo.

    Alice
  • thxmiker
    thxmiker Member Posts: 1,278 Member
    #11
    pepebcn said:

    Hi Alice ,we have the whole troup of bayreuth here in the
    Opera house, chorus and orchetsa celebrating Wagner,s 200 despite I like very much opera and love certain pieces of Wagner I don't think I can hold a full Wagner opera!LOL. They are scoring the Whole Nibelung Ring!

    Wagner is a little heavy for
    Wagner is a little heavy for me. If I am going to listen to heavy, I want the cannons and Tchaikovsky! lol Still dark, but the Cannons!


    Have Fun! mike
  • maglets
    maglets Member Posts: 2,576 Member
    #12
    thxmiker said:

    Wagner is a little heavy for
    Wagner is a little heavy for me. If I am going to listen to heavy, I want the cannons and Tchaikovsky! lol Still dark, but the Cannons!


    Have Fun! mike

    haha
    yes nice to hear those cannons Mike.....good and loud too....

    well Pepe i am packing up the dog team. We will soon be on our way to listen to the Bayreuth group.....snoozzzzzze,,,,,,sorry again Doc....just know i wouldn't make i through a ring cycle
  • Doc_Hawk
    Doc_Hawk Member Posts: 685
    #13
    maglets said:

    haha
    yes nice to hear those cannons Mike.....good and loud too....

    well Pepe i am packing up the dog team. We will soon be on our way to listen to the Bayreuth group.....snoozzzzzze,,,,,,sorry again Doc....just know i wouldn't make i through a ring cycle

    Epic
    I've always loved the big, epic stories as well as Norse mythology. That's what first lured me into Wagner. Yeah, he put in a couple of hours into each opera that could have been left out and still made a compelling story. But, since more than a couple of my past professors have commented that I tend to "over write" (but always to their pleasure) I reckon there's no room for me to cast stones.
  • pepebcn
    pepebcn Member Posts: 6,331 Member
    #14
    Doc_Hawk said:

    Epic
    I've always loved the big, epic stories as well as Norse mythology. That's what first lured me into Wagner. Yeah, he put in a couple of hours into each opera that could have been left out and still made a compelling story. But, since more than a couple of my past professors have commented that I tend to "over write" (but always to their pleasure) I reckon there's no room for me to cast stones.

    What cannons ?
    Overture 1812?
  • pepebcn
    pepebcn Member Posts: 6,331 Member
    #15
    maglets said:

    ohhhhNOOOOO
    helpppp...I have been kicked out of the pack.....please opera buffs don't let pepe turf me out!!!! hahha

    I am a complete belle canto .....I like Donizetti and of course Rossini but also big big fan of Verdi. A friend just loaned me his dvd of Traviata with Stratas and Domingo by Zeffirelli...absolutely stunning....

    also I love Baroque opera and Mozart too

    gosh I am with peps.....don't know if I could make it through a full Wagner....

    will hunt up our season from the Met Doc

    I love you pepe and I will be good.......

    mags

    Love you as well Mags!
    ;-)
  • RickMurtagh
    RickMurtagh Member Posts: 587 Member
    #16
    Doc_Hawk said:

    Otello
    I'd love to see Otello, my second fave from Verdi (after Aida) but featuring the greatest villain of all time, Iago! If I ever got into acting, that's the role I'd want the most.

    me too
    I sang in Aida in college and that might be the reason it is my fav.
  • RickMurtagh
    RickMurtagh Member Posts: 587 Member
    #17
    abrub said:

    Hoping to get to the Met in October
    Need to be in NYC on the 10th, may go to the opera on the 9th (Otello).

    opera
    it has been so long since I have been to the opera - maybe I will sched my apt w Dr Paty for around then and catch Otello as well. Hard to make that ind of decision when you are unemployed.
  • maglets
    maglets Member Posts: 2,576 Member
    #18
    RickMurtagh said:

    opera
    it has been so long since I have been to the opera - maybe I will sched my apt w Dr Paty for around then and catch Otello as well. Hard to make that ind of decision when you are unemployed.

    galaxy

    rick I go to the live broadcasts from the New York Met....in Canada these are broadcast live on Saturdays at one o'clock....the theatre chain is Galaxy.....

    best seats in the house are $22......so way way cheaper than going to the opera...

    the live transmission is fantastic....sound is good and you get to see Rene Fleming up close....:)

    mags
  • ketziah35
    ketziah35 Member Posts: 1,145
    #19
    maglets said:

    galaxy

    rick I go to the live broadcasts from the New York Met....in Canada these are broadcast live on Saturdays at one o'clock....the theatre chain is Galaxy.....

    best seats in the house are $22......so way way cheaper than going to the opera...

    the live transmission is fantastic....sound is good and you get to see Rene Fleming up close....:)

    mags

    I am jealous! I can't get
    I am jealous! I can't get such cultural activities where I live. I can get up front and personal versions of "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo!"
  • maglets
    maglets Member Posts: 2,576 Member
    #20
    ketziah35 said:

    I am jealous! I can't get
    I am jealous! I can't get such cultural activities where I live. I can get up front and personal versions of "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo!"

    hahah
    well maybe you could get all dressed up to watch Honey

    luv you ketz

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