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[nimrod]

What is overbearing music?
Old movies reminds me opera, a theater with music non-stop. I love opera, especially grand opera.

I was watching Vertigo from 1958 the other night and the score is overwhelming. Really loud and quite annoying.
Blue Ray is particularly bad for this, often i have to adjust the volume settings because the music drowns out the voices.

I watched Hang em High, Clint Eastwood movie. The loud orchestra at times sounded corny Da Da Da Da Dah.....

[Dmitry]

I just started listening to and watching operas about a year ago. It's one of the few musical genres I was unfamiliar with, and clearly I've been missing out.

Our local theater broadcasts the Met Opera live every few months. Next Saturday's is La Traviata, and I'm scrambling to catch up on work so I can attend. I'm really hoping I can make it, because the opera after that is Lohengrin, but I don't care for Wagner. And after Lohengrin, nothing until the spring. I can stream them at home, or course, but the big screen is better. Attending an opera in person would be wonderful, but . . . that's not gonna happen until I can get out of state.

Wow! That's great, Kathy!

I started listen to the opera when I divorced my first wife but hadn't met a new one yet.
I was lonely, I read Nietzsche and so my first opera was Wagner's Tristan and Isolde I was serious.

La Traviata is one of the best operas! But be careful, modern minimalist productions can spoil the impression.
Have you seen Rigoletto? It is ideal grand opera, nothing more, everything is in place.
But it took me maybe 5 times of listening before the understanding came to me and I fell in love with it.

This guy is helped much me to understand and to love opera:

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku0uS6SrJis" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku0uS6SrJis</a>

(it is in English)

[Normandie]

 ^^^^^
Thanks for sharing that video, Dmitry; I'll have to watch it when I get a bit more caught up.

I have not yet seen Rigoletto, but it is on my list! I have read online about the modern tendency to take a minimalist approach to opera; I haven't seen a minimalist one yet, but I don't think I'd like it. My tastes in general run toward the traditional.

When I have watched operas, I print out the libretto ahead of time so I can (try to) more clearly understand what is going on. The only one I've seen on the big screen was Turandot, which had subtitles superimposed at the top of the screen. That helped. 

[Dmitry]

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA7IITdKfAA" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA7IITdKfAA</a>

By the way I have popular libretti with line-by-line translation http://www.murashev.com/opera/Operas

[Normandie]

By the way I have popular libretti with line-by-line translation http://www.murashev.com/opera/Operas

Thanks, Dmitry! I will check it out when I get caught up. Right now I am completely swamped.

[Hello Goodbye]

Opera is great!  Even The Marx Brothers provided us with beautiful operatic passages...


La Habanera and Toreadora from "Carmen"   I Want My Shirt

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5izciEMkvw" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5izciEMkvw</a>

1:00:24



Il Trovatore de Verdi

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsAvTNUA3TY" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsAvTNUA3TY</a>

[Dmitry]

So funny! I should see `Une nuit à l'opéra' (1935) right now!

[Hello Goodbye]

You'd enjoy the movie, Dmitry.  Straight opera mixed with The Marx Brothers' zany antics...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GE6vWjp8xI" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GE6vWjp8xI</a>

 

[Hello Goodbye]

Two of the Marx Brothers were virtuosos at their instruments...


Chico on piano

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkCiRSDPIzk" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkCiRSDPIzk</a>

Harpo on the harp

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ2RyRgqsuA" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ2RyRgqsuA</a>

Both scenes are from A Night at the Opera.

[Normandie]

Our local theater broadcasts the Met Opera live every few months. Next Saturday's is La Traviata, and I'm scrambling to catch up on work so I can attend.

That won't be an option now. I have stacks of chapter files and journal articles to get through by Monday. Darn, darn, darn. 

[blmeanie]

Two of the Marx Brothers were virtuosos at their instruments...


Both scenes are from A Night at the Opera.

I haven't seen the Marx Bros in over 30 years, might be time, I remember liking the Night at the Opera, Day at the Races and Duck Soup

[Hello Goodbye]

I haven't seen the Marx Bros in over 30 years, might be time, I remember liking the Night at the Opera, Day at the Races and Duck Soup

Many of their movies were pre-code.  They were a riot!   

[In My Life]

I haven't seen the Marx Bros in over 30 years, might be time, I remember liking the Night at the Opera, Day at the Races and Duck Soup

Many of their movies were pre-code.  They were a riot!   

I find the Marx Brothers very interesting and have read quite a bit about them but for some odd reason I have never watched any of their movies.

[Normandie]

I found this interesting. . . I wonder what Ringo would think?

https://youtu.be/ROdTqZSCQvc

[In My Life]

I found this interesting. . . I wonder what Ringo would think?

https://youtu.be/ROdTqZSCQvc

Hmm… I’m not sure but it made me think of that Beatles in my pants thread even though one had nothing to do with the other.  I laughed so hard at that darned thing!

[Moogmodule]

I can see lots of opportunities for very annoying people on public transport with that thing.

[Normandie]

I can see lots of opportunities for very annoying people on public transport with that thing.

That was my first thought exactly! Like cell phones aren't bad enough.

[nimrod]

I found this interesting. . . I wonder what Ringo would think?

https://youtu.be/ROdTqZSCQvc

He probably doesn't use public transport 

[Normandie]

Wow. Lightoller's voice. . .    I knew recordings of him were available but never tracked them down until someone posted this:

https://youtu.be/uzG4cjm5mKo

[Hello Goodbye]

Yay!





Yay!!!