TS: Comic Opera vs. Tragic Opera

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