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    The Culture Vulture Thread

    I watched this version of Mozart's most famous opera for the 3rd time tonight.



    The dusky russkie playing Susanna, trying to evade the lusty clutches of the count in the convoluted chicanery, is a knockout and the imaginative choreography distinguishes this production

    Ildebrando D'Arcangelo is the greatest Figaro of all time

    I first encountered him in this earlier version, which has double subs (English + Italian) which makes it easier to sing along karaoke style during the more famous arias



    I also found a new version has popped up on the tubes a year ago so I shall give it a spin. The Figaro Adam Maxey does not seem to shine very brightly on a first quick flick through the highlights but the svelte dark skinned Susanna is a cutie


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    Damn! And I thought the thread was about KW.

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    I'd have thought 'cosi fan tutte' would be the favourite for the TD male members....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    I'd have thought 'cosi fan tutte' would be the favourite for the TD male members....
    ...I think Pagliacci would be more appropriate...

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    Anything Mozart in your life is making things better.

    In the previously normal world, did anyone do the Van Gogh/Gauguin tour in Amsterdam (the hour or two when you weren't off your kite)?

    Fascinating stuff.

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    Here's a taster when Gauguin wasn't toasted and they weren't trying to kill each other:

    Vincent van Gogh - Portrait of Gauguin - Van Gogh Museum

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    Watching House of Gucci tonight inspired to me google up the Barber of Seville on youtube and I ended up watching the whole thing for a marathon beer-fueled 5 hour night on the sofa. Veg-tastic.



    I couldn't believe how good this is. I have seen and/or watched Mozart's Marriage of Figaro hundreds of times over the last 30 years and know it backwards and inside out but I have never once on one solitary occasion watched or even listened to the equally famous prequel written 30 years latter by Rossini.

    I have always shied away from Rossini and the Italian opera composers for their use of too many high voiced males and too many deep voiced females (which gives any Thailand veteran the willies)

    Mozart seems to compose more deep voiced males and high voiced females which. So I have been a frightful teutonic bore when it comes to opera and stuck exclusively to Mozart's various masterpieces (+ Fidelio from Beethoven).

    But anyway I am glad I finally got over my prejudices as this was epic.

    (....Looks like it wont embed on the DOOR so you will have to follow the link to see it)

    https://www.youtube .com/watch?v=8NwKPegV1lE

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    The Magic Flute

    It does not rate well on IMBD etc but it was quite a diverting update on the famous opera

    It is done as a story within a story where a schoolboy travels by train to attend a Hogwartish music school in the Swiss mountains and ends up disappearing into the magical realm of the Opera's fantasy world to rescue princess Pamina from the evil clutches of Osiris

    It unusually has the actors singing most of the arias in a kind of amateur singing style, which sounds worse than it actually is

    I was a bit worried that they were going to demolish the most famous and challenging arias with this approach but to my relief they actually drafted in real opera singers for the difficult bits

    It throws in blockbuster effects and actions sequences which makes it an entertaining and stylistically eclectic mixed bag


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    Great thread from out Fliegender Hollander

    Quite a few Magic flautists hereabouts,

    La Finta simplice is also rife, thus goes everything.

    Once met Sydney Oprah and his wife Ruth who was undulating

    As an impecunious student I had the honor to serve smoked salmon to the boxes in the London Coliseum as a means to see the Ring cycle, The left overs were converted into free beer and admission to the BierKeeler in Trafalgar Sq where I met a real Austrian charmer who made it Alpen for me and many future adventures
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    I just want the chance to use a bigger porridge bowl.

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