I'm apparently in an opera mood right now, so I'm watching things on YouTube. I randomly remembered this hysterical little short I'd seen on PBS way back when I was in high school and thought I'd try to find it. Of course I found it! It's called "All the Great Operas in Ten Minutes" and it's rather amusing:

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This is all a_treitell's fault ( Read more... )

One of my good friends, Will, did this for a film class. A short PSA regarding plastic bag pollution. Absolutely hysterical.

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Hysterical...

Harry Potter in the Hood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuBm0dvIzcc

This was the path of my Footlights I...

First, I wanted to direct 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane. They wouldn't let me--"The actors in the department won't be able to handle it" and then "It's too long for an F1 anyway."

Okay...so I looked up a few others. Two more that I proposed was Beckett's Play and Arlene Hutton's I Dream Before I Take the ( Read more... )

I just downloaded and watched the JK Rowling A Year in the Life documentary on YouTube, and somehow stumbled across this gem ( Read more... )

So, I often say that I work at a Jimmy Buffett inspired restaurant, but I really don't care for his music. This is very true, but every now and again I hear a song that either is really good at getting stuck in my head or that I get a kick out of, or just that I sincerely like. This one is currently stuck in my head, and I actually really enjoy ( Read more... )

I found these from snowowl...a couple of absolutely brilliant operatic performances.

The first one is Diana Damrau as the Queen of the Night in Magic Flute, and the second is Natalie Dessay doing an aria from Lakme...they're just spectacular...

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snowowl reminded me of this group. Nightwish is really a metal type of band, but the lead singer is a classically trained vocalist, and you can obviously tell when she sings--her voice is really really beautiful.

Here she is singing an aria ( Read more... )