What have you seen on YouTube recently?

[Hello Goodbye]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA5JmQjE69w#

Her Majesty's Golden Jubilee   2002

[Hello Goodbye]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGRxVITBGOA#


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJZ2BOjANxg#

He continues to deteriorate...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHD1OuJLZik#

[Dmitry]

I remember Boris Yeltsin's eccentricities in the 90s. He liked to drink. It was both funny and sad at the same time.

[Hello Goodbye]

I remember Boris Yeltsin's eccentricities in the 90s. He liked to drink. It was both funny and sad at the same time.

And Boris Yeltsin had acne rosacea (rhinophyma) to prove it...

[Dmitry]

And Boris Yeltsin had acne rosacea (rhinophyma) to prove it...

Wiki says: Although rhinophyma has been commonly presumed to be linked to alcoholism, a direct causal relationship between the condition and excessive alcohol consumption has not been substantiated.

Though the doctor can know for sure 

[Hello Goodbye]

fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt

Men generally believe what they want to believe...


The Eye of the Beholder


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKEiBiNCC2U#
General Electric Theatre   6 December 1953


Not to be confused with a Twilight Zone episode by the same name, Kathy.    This is worth a watch.

[Dmitry]

fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt

Men generally believe what they want to believe...


The Eye of the Beholder


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKEiBiNCC2U#
General Electric Theatre   6 December 1953


Not to be confused with a Twilight Zone episode by the same name, Kathy.    This is worth a watch.

Wow! I liked it. Interesting movie.

By the way I love old movies, especially from the Golden Age of Hollywood, where the acting and the music are captivating.

[nimrod]

Wow! I liked it. Interesting movie.

By the way I love old movies, especially from the Golden Age of Hollywood, where the acting and the music are captivating.

I'd like to like old movies but the overbearing music always spoils them for me.

[Dmitry]

I'd like to like old movies but the overbearing music always spoils them for me.

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

[Normandie]

I love opera, especially grand opera.

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.

[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..... ha2ha

[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 roll:) 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:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku0uS6SrJis#
(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]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA7IITdKfAA#

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.