Your getting old.


Saying that i wouldnt mind going to an opera.

NOOOOOOOOO!! It's just wrong!! that and Jazz

Find it a bit screechy & waily tbh!

Me too

It's basically 'pop' for fat people except they don't have adoring fans. That bit in Shawshak Redemption is good though 

Brilliant movie is that! ...very liberating bit

I quite liked Callas's wailing and screeching.  I like the hysteria when you're once removed.
Theatrical banshee - from a distance! 


I think I really (really) vommed at the wanking off over the great tenors.  No doubt technically accomplished voices but as much soul as a freshly laid dog turd on Range Rover. 

Sort of thing Michael Parkinson would say was the high point of music.  Ergo, obviously wrong.

lol well put. That's the thinng about opera it's all about technical vocals. I would't say it has no soul I would just say it does nnot have mass appeal which is markedly differet. My keyboard cann go f*ck itself in a cornnnnnner somewhere by the way.

Dame Kiri is not fat, neither is Lesley Garrett nor the majority of young opera singers today.
Stop generalising - that is like saying that football is only for the male of the species..

Oh wait a minute...

I was going to pretend to know who they are then thought better of it. Household names? Not really, kind of proves Bateman's poinnnnnnnnnnnt 

Does it tits, lol,    I have no point.  I was enquiring.

*stands next to onetoo and nods*

You're asking a question only you yourself can answer. Do you like it? Yes or no works. If 'no' move on and forgeddaboudit imo.

"...are you a fan?...."

I cannot answer that.  Despite the fact I am all knowing and all disgusted, I'm thankfully unable to mind read you rancid hoards. 

Your spelling could maybe use some work, though  
( @ this whole thread, actually)

What about chancer dickheads from Glasgow ?

*for posterity* 

What, like opera?

I like Opera I dont like any of the British opera singers I like mostly Italian and Spanish

Hi Marg

I don't really know any 'proper' opera ... but I am going to see Pirates of Penzance next week

do you know any improper opera?

Nope - sing me some

I quite like  some of it,the more "Popular" ones.The barber of Seville.Carmen.Once, years ago the BBC broadcast the whole "Ring" cycle  by Wagner fom Germany it was very long but I enjoyed most of it.

What like Opera?  

Seems like a few would like to be educated in this subject.

I like opera - but not all opera. In the same way that I like books, but not all books, or I like television but not all television.
One gets to know pretty quickly which composers or performers one likes to listen to, and which one avoids.
I cannot stand  Puccini, or Handel or Wagner. But I love Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi.

I like the bel canto style of singing which Joan Sutherland did so exquisitely, with all the fancy-wancy, trilling and vocal fireworks. I also like melodies I can recognise. I don't like just a cacophony of sound.


I see The Pirates of Penzance was mentioned further up the thread ^^^
I consider this to be light opera - very light opera - but still splendid stuff. It doesn't havew to be dirgy and stodgy.
This one certainly isn't. This is a smashing, rollicking version of a scene from the Pirates of Penzance.

 

Winfrey's OK but I prefere Trisha....

    You kinda missed the point dear

Hi Rexi hope you enjoy it 

You'd be surprised....

OK seriously, I do prefer German opera to Italian opera but like anything not all German opera..one stands out and thats Der Kaiser von Atlantis..the composer and Librettist died in a consentration camp where they wrote it....