Greypins@a... wrote:
> peggy, > > please tell me you're kidding. in that production, she may have used > more energy than most other opera singers do in other roles but, she did not > use as much energy as a professional basketball player does in a game (unless > you're talking about someone like chuck nevitt).
I may be wrong, but I'm not kidding. Figaro runs just under 3 hours plus two 20-minute intermissions (at the Met at least). A basketball game is one hour with three breaks between the 15-minute periods. And there are a lot of stops and starts in play during the periods, for fouls, out-of-bounds, travelling calls, etc. So there's 15 minutes of play spread out over a half an hour or so. And most players don't play the entire 60 minutes. I think there's a chance of equivalence. The basketball player uses more energy in shorter bursts, the opera singer perhaps a similar amount of energy spread out over a longer period. A little like, say, a long distance run?
Peggy
-- Margaret Harrison, Alexandria, Virginia, USA "Music for a While Shall All Your Cares Beguile" mailto:peggyh@i...
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