Musikdrama
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 14:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
Skirt Opera.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 14:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
sadly "rock opera" is not yet a recognized sub-genre of opera
we'll see what happens 40 years from now
― I need new, hip khakis (DJP), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 14:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's asking a lot b/c operas are and aren't divisible in terms of "comedy" and "tragedy" in the same way that say Shakespeare plays are (with "historical" as a necessary addendum). I mean, where would you put Eugene Onegin? or Pelleas and Melisande? Both would I guess be termed 'lyric operas', and have laffs as well as a death at the end.
The question really is Option A: The serious operas of Wagner, Berg, "Dido and Aeneas" and "Turn of the screw". Option B: a gigantic mass of Italian opera, featuring every famous aria ever sung, and also let us not forget Kurt Weill.
― poxen, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 14:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Schubert wrote a dozen operas and singspiels by the way. I listened to some on Radio 3's recent Schubertfest and I would recommendFierrabras, Alfonso und Estrella and the proto-Wagnerian Die Zauberharfe.
― glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Purcell's not even considered proper opera, right?
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dido is opera even if you wanna call it proto-opera or something
― aboulia banks (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Schubert wrote a dozen operas
! Jesus Christ didn't he die when he was like thirty?
that proto-opera stuff is always interesting to me but I usually end up passing on it when there's more glamorous-looking stuff on the same racks. Handel wrote like tons of opera right?
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
i like the Handel operas I've seen/heard, they are a different to deal to Mozart and everything after, obv
― aboulia banks (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
incidentally aero they did an experiment on that radio 3 season to see if it was physically possible to write down the amount of music Schubert composed within the timespan he had
Purcell wouldn't obey either the Italian nor the French dictates of the genre, including dance and whatnot. There are lots of jokes in 'King Arthur' and 'The Faerie Queen', though.
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
bollocks to Italo-Gallic hipsters tho
― aboulia banks (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
I remeber reading that he thumbed his nose partly because English audiences wanted something a bit more rollicking than the French and you know, ya gotta pay the bills.
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dido and Aeneas is heart-breakingly beautiful tho, i feel like the staticness of his stories/staging is the unoperatic touch if anything
― aboulia banks (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Poor Dido...
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 29 April 2012 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink