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*grin*
If anyone wants libretti & translation to follow, there're available at http://www.rwagner.net/opere/e-t-ring.html.
I love listening to opera, somehow like nothing else it makes my brain go crazy so that for days afterwards I hear ambient noise as if scored by that composer. Absolutely bloody delightful, seriously. Anyone else get that?
I love that opera's an artform developed through attention-grabbing - like advertising I guess. The historicity of opera really interests me - I understand its beginnings in what was primarily a social occasion, during which the performers and composers had to work ever harder to grab with feats of musical and technical brilliance the attention of the people in the audience who were mostly busy hanging out together and chatting. It's what I want from music, often - something I can listen to whilst I am doing other things which from time to time will absolutely grab my attention with something incredible. |
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