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From:  Bobby Kravitz <bobkravitz@e...>
Bobby Kravitz <bobkravitz@e...>
Date:  Wed Oct 4, 2000  2:25 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] Text and Singing


Opera is not only the audience's grandiose fantasies, But most definately the
Singers......That's why I love it.....Bobby,Philly

RALUCOB@a... wrote:
RALUCOB@a... wrote:

> lloyd,
>
> you make opera sound delicious. there are a number of points that i
> could argue with you on but, i would actually rather share with you, things i
> still love about opera.
>
> probably the thing that i appreciate about opera the most, on a
> philosophical level as well as a visceral level, is its excess. it always
> goes as far as you'd want it to go. (not in every case. there is a lot of
> opera i could really do without- don pasquale, for example). but, the
> 'liebestod' still causes a physical reaction all over me everytime i hear it.
> i read somewhere that, at one time, puccini wanted the 1st act of boheme to
> end without the voices singing their last 'amors'. i have never heard it
> that way but, it sounds perfect in my mind.
>
> probably the most, i don't know what to call it, experience for me in
> opera, was being figaro in mozart's opera. there we were, figaro and
> susanna, standing together, alone in the garden, completely unaware of the
> rest of the world (including the audience). i felt a breeze on my cheek
> that i have only felt on cool summer nights in the berkshires. that's what
> i wanted my real life to be like.
>
> thanks,
> mike
>
>


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