" Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive. " Molière

[lydzi]

I've been thinking for a while now to do a little post about Operas. I believed I talked about it to very very few people in my flist but I do love opera. I don't remember who said it exactly but Operas and Litterature have this in common that it's full of people who just die for love and Tragedy. I guess that's why I love it (not to mention the

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[sunnytyler001]

OMG!!! THIS LIST!!!! :D AMZING!!! There is no word to say HOW MUCH LOVE :D

I might make a top ten, like you, if you don't mind :D

[lydzi]

Not at all ^^ On the contrary, I might even discover new operas which is always a joy XD. I'm actually surprised to see that anyone can share my love for Opera at all sometimes ^^.

I still need to listen to Lucrzia Borgia tbh. I never tried it completely but I'm sure that if anyone can nail it it's Monsterrat Caballe XD. Nebrenko is playing it nowadays and I do like her a lot despite the professionnals being all the time mean to her :/. And she's so pretty XD.

[sunnytyler001]

I saw it years ago on Arte with Joan Sutherland :D She was amazing too :D

[sunnytyler001]

Here is my top ten, as promised :D
http://sunnytyler001.livejournal.com/634180.html

[sancta_terra]

THIS POST IS AMAZING. I love opera, I need to see some more soon!

[lydzi]

Oh another opera lover!! YAY \o/!!

[sancta_terra]

Oh of course! I used to take singing lessons and choir and I did quite a few opera arias for my solo singing lessons! and choruses for choir, like the ones from Nabucco and Aida!

unrelated but I remembered something extra fun from the convention in belfast - there was a lovely french couple there and their badges said from val de marne so I spoke to them for a really long time! I told them there was another French fan close to them hehe ;)

[lydzi]

hkjdgfsdjkfghjdgfgsdf I want to ear you now <33. This is so cool tbh! I wish I could sing... just you know... sing at least in tune lol. I'm terrible at it. I've got a good ear apparently though.

Lol next door neighbors? Where are thou? And they managed to go to Belfast for the con ugh jealous of everyone's life rn!

[lsirial]

Je n'y connais pas grand chose en opéra (pour une raison qui m'échappe, le seul opéra que j'aie jamais vu est La flûte enchantée... mais j'en ai vu au moins 4 versions, dont 3 "live". Je ne sais vraiment pas comment ça se fait) donc merci pour ce post, je vais pouvoir compléter ma culture ^^

Par contre... il me semblait que les pièces d'Offenbach ne comptaient pas comme opéras mais comme opérettes?

[lydzi]

Les Contes d'Hoffman est à mettre à part ^^. Ca reste un Opéra, complétement foldingue mais un opéra quand même. Après techniquemet parlant les différences j'en ai pas vraiment grande idée :p.

[sunnytyler001]

LOL! On a été syncro pour répondre ;D

[lydzi]

*air high five* Les grands esprits héhé.

[alexandral]

I love this post!!!!

You might even convert me into an opera lover. I have a long story about this, though. I think everything (or almost everything) is formed by first impressions, and I "met" Opera for the first time when I was 14. I used to live in a very good elite boarding school , and they were really conscious to make us into well-rounded individuals. hence, one day, 14-year old us were taken to see Opera. For some reason, the singers weren't as beautiful as the ones in your clip, but mostly consisted of 40-something ladies with "big chests". Plus we could not understand a word (I must say that the lack of understandable words is still a big minus of opera IMHO) and .. well,, we didn't take to it, none of us. :( Sad story but true.

The next month we were taken to see ballet and for some reason this clicked with me.

But THESE CLIPS ARE GORGEOUS AND MAY BE I SHOULD CHANGE MY WAYS.

[sunnytyler001]

YES YOU SHOULD, MY FRIEND.

[lydzi]

Oh I hope so! ^^ I think you are right when it comes to understanding the language. Now I can get past it but the first two operas I listened to where Carmen and la Traviata and one is in french, the other in italian. Two languages I perfectly understand so of course the story has more impact. The quality of the voice and the acting is primordial too. I mean you can't expect to "feel" a certain scene if your eye and ear is not charmed right away ^^.

Try to forget that first disaster :). I would totally recommend Carmen and la Traviata because you can find them subbed on youtube héhé. Hamlet too I've seen it there. Don Giovanni is pretty easy to catch too since there was the movie made out of it :).

[lobolita]

ahhhhh I love opera! My father has an education as an opera singer, so I grew up going to the opera quite often, which I really miss now (there's no opera house in this town :-(.