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yamamanamaFuck, I had a title in mind, but I forgot it! It was probably some kind of movie quote. Or maybe it was a Simpsons reference. Hmm, maybe if I think about music and Simpsons references, it will come back to me.
Anyways, around the world in 80 minutes. I don't think it was actually 80 minutes. It was more like 100. I guess if you assume the intermission was 15 minutes, but that's pushing it.
This isn't the Flying Dutchman Overture I remember. There's no kiwwing da wabbit, there's no speawww and magic hewmet, there's no stowms and huwwicanes or anything. And that's probably because the one I remember from What's Opera, Doc is actually from Die Walküre.
Tannhauser always makes me think of the end of Blade Runner.
Puccini is always good.
Cosi Fan Tutte was rather controversial. Mozart satirized the class system in Europe a lot, apparently.
La Rondine's excerpt was a quartet.
Madama Butterfly had a flower duet too. And, hey, Un bel di isn't actually that music that plays during that Mr. Plow commercial that makes no sense and vaguely references Citizen Kane. That would be Casta Diva from Bellini's Norma. I checked. It was in Spanish. Un Bel Di was on the regrettably titled Pukahontas. These things happen when FOX hasn't played these episodes in at least four years.
The characters in the Pearl Fishers have the least Sri Lankan names of all the Sri Lankans I've seen. I can name my characters in Secret of Mana after them! Leila's Arabic. Nadir's Arabic. Zurga is likely Arabic. Nourabad is Persian.
Flower Duet from Lakme may be the best thing I've heard in an opera.
Or that may go to Nessun Dorma from Turandot.
Sideshow Bob would have loved this, even if the Mikado brought back putrid memories of his journey to Terror Lake. Yum Yum is about as Japanese as Zurga is Sri Lankan.
Trouble in Tahiti was.. oddly funny.
I don't know what either encore was, but the last one was instrumental and sounded a bit like Mozart. Neither of them were from H.M.S. Pinafore.
Nope, didn't work. It was kind of long. And that's all I remember.
There was a kid drinking from a water gun.
I'm kind of embarrassed by this entry, I wrote the music descriptions in a rush and spent way too long trying to bring the title to mind. It was "brilliant as the sun, wondrous as all creation," by the way, because a woman was holding a simple, beautiful sunflower. So circumvolutions can wait.
burning question: inspired by a conversation about Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312 (she says it's about the year 2312… oh, and there's a mystery in there), what book has the best cover art you've ever seen? The most eyecatching? And no, they're not the same thing. The worst (as much loathing as I have for Aff's Diary and everyone involved with the creation, propagation, and promotion of it, there are worse examples of cover art)? The most hilariously bad?
Anyways, around the world in 80 minutes. I don't think it was actually 80 minutes. It was more like 100. I guess if you assume the intermission was 15 minutes, but that's pushing it.
This isn't the Flying Dutchman Overture I remember. There's no kiwwing da wabbit, there's no speawww and magic hewmet, there's no stowms and huwwicanes or anything. And that's probably because the one I remember from What's Opera, Doc is actually from Die Walküre.
Tannhauser always makes me think of the end of Blade Runner.
Puccini is always good.
Cosi Fan Tutte was rather controversial. Mozart satirized the class system in Europe a lot, apparently.
La Rondine's excerpt was a quartet.
Madama Butterfly had a flower duet too. And, hey, Un bel di isn't actually that music that plays during that Mr. Plow commercial that makes no sense and vaguely references Citizen Kane. That would be Casta Diva from Bellini's Norma. I checked. It was in Spanish. Un Bel Di was on the regrettably titled Pukahontas. These things happen when FOX hasn't played these episodes in at least four years.
The characters in the Pearl Fishers have the least Sri Lankan names of all the Sri Lankans I've seen. I can name my characters in Secret of Mana after them! Leila's Arabic. Nadir's Arabic. Zurga is likely Arabic. Nourabad is Persian.
Flower Duet from Lakme may be the best thing I've heard in an opera.
Or that may go to Nessun Dorma from Turandot.
Sideshow Bob would have loved this, even if the Mikado brought back putrid memories of his journey to Terror Lake. Yum Yum is about as Japanese as Zurga is Sri Lankan.
Trouble in Tahiti was.. oddly funny.
I don't know what either encore was, but the last one was instrumental and sounded a bit like Mozart. Neither of them were from H.M.S. Pinafore.
Nope, didn't work. It was kind of long. And that's all I remember.
There was a kid drinking from a water gun.
I'm kind of embarrassed by this entry, I wrote the music descriptions in a rush and spent way too long trying to bring the title to mind. It was "brilliant as the sun, wondrous as all creation," by the way, because a woman was holding a simple, beautiful sunflower. So circumvolutions can wait.
burning question: inspired by a conversation about Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312 (she says it's about the year 2312… oh, and there's a mystery in there), what book has the best cover art you've ever seen? The most eyecatching? And no, they're not the same thing. The worst (as much loathing as I have for Aff's Diary and everyone involved with the creation, propagation, and promotion of it, there are worse examples of cover art)? The most hilariously bad?
