Ooooooh thank you for this evening at the opera! :D I spent this evening watching it with this delighted smile :D
First: Rheinsberg! You know, this is going to sound really dumb, but I guess I never really thought about it as a real place? I mean, of course it's a real place, that's not what I mean. But a place that is still around (as opposed to a place where royalty lived in the 18th C, and this is dumb because I've been to lots of castles and things in, say, England) and it is gorgeous and I want to go see it now <3 Also as I think you know I discovered our own local young opera artist program a couple of years ago and I think these things are The Best :D these were so much fun!
2015: -THAT COUNTERTENOR CARMEN, omg. I am still trying to get over that he played violin before he sang and he was good at both (I was at first taken aback that they had a random instrumentalist in the midst of all the opera singers!) I AM SO JEALOUS -triple traviatas? I found that extremely amusing, actually
For some reason 2016 didn't seem quite as impressive to me, but I think in retrospect that part of this had to do with the sound quality of the recording being different and not the singers. (As individual ones I relaly liked, like "I got plenty of nothin'" (it's hard to sing English!), and the Jewel song) This leads me to --
2015 and 2018 -I do feel it's a little funny to do Don Carlo in concert, like, obviously I ADORE the music but I think I situate it so much in context that I find it hilarious that a guy in a tux is singing it, whereas I don't feel that way about other Verdi, or Mozart, I don't know why! -2018 is just fabulous! <3 -wowee they got a bunch of opera singers to *sing together* and it didn't sound horrible, probably because they are young :P :D
Carmen: that looks fantastic! (I've only seen Carmen in video once, and this looks much cooler than the one I saw)
La Traviata: you know I love this, but omg what is Violetta WEARING, they are really leaning into this lady of the night thing aren't they. (Also I feel that singers this young have no business singing Verdi but possibly this is me being grumpy)
Tosca: I loved watching this too :D (which is impressive because Puccini is often Not My Thing)
Contes: man this is a weird opera :D I really liked the handwriting sets, and I think French opera is a lot better suited for these voices
Zauberflote: OK, I just loved this, you win. :P :D (I do like stagings where Sarastro totally knows she's got the dagger and sings all that to her anyway <3 )
In conclusion, OK, when we do our group Rheinsberg trip we are going to coordinate it with this opera festival, right?? :D
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Date: 2020-04-01 05:48 am (UTC)First: Rheinsberg! You know, this is going to sound really dumb, but I guess I never really thought about it as a real place? I mean, of course it's a real place, that's not what I mean. But a place that is still around (as opposed to a place where royalty lived in the 18th C, and this is dumb because I've been to lots of castles and things in, say, England) and it is gorgeous and I want to go see it now <3
Also as I think you know I discovered our own local young opera artist program a couple of years ago and I think these things are The Best :D these were so much fun!
2015:
-THAT COUNTERTENOR CARMEN, omg. I am still trying to get over that he played violin before he sang and he was good at both (I was at first taken aback that they had a random instrumentalist in the midst of all the opera singers!) I AM SO JEALOUS
-triple traviatas? I found that extremely amusing, actually
For some reason 2016 didn't seem quite as impressive to me, but I think in retrospect that part of this had to do with the sound quality of the recording being different and not the singers. (As individual ones I relaly liked, like "I got plenty of nothin'" (it's hard to sing English!), and the Jewel song) This leads me to --
2015 and 2018
-I do feel it's a little funny to do Don Carlo in concert, like, obviously I ADORE the music but I think I situate it so much in context that I find it hilarious that a guy in a tux is singing it, whereas I don't feel that way about other Verdi, or Mozart, I don't know why!
-2018 is just fabulous! <3
-wowee they got a bunch of opera singers to *sing together* and it didn't sound horrible, probably because they are young :P :D
Carmen: that looks fantastic! (I've only seen Carmen in video once, and this looks much cooler than the one I saw)
La Traviata: you know I love this, but omg what is Violetta WEARING, they are really leaning into this lady of the night thing aren't they. (Also I feel that singers this young have no business singing Verdi but possibly this is me being grumpy)
Tosca: I loved watching this too :D (which is impressive because Puccini is often Not My Thing)
Contes: man this is a weird opera :D I really liked the handwriting sets, and I think French opera is a lot better suited for these voices
Zauberflote: OK, I just loved this, you win. :P :D (I do like stagings where Sarastro totally knows she's got the dagger and sings all that to her anyway <3 )
In conclusion, OK, when we do our group Rheinsberg trip we are going to coordinate it with this opera festival, right?? :D