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[-] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

Opera can actually be kinda fun, especially if it's in a language you understand. It's (mis)understood to be stuffy and boring now, but back in the day it was low-brow entertainment.

[-] Poogona@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Honestly I think it's worse when it's a language I understand since it makes the sing-talking a lot more frustrating to listen to for me

[-] courier8377@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Trying to rack my brain for english operas,, I played pit for GianCarlo Menotti's the old maid and the thief, a fun 20th century one.

Most of what comes to mind is older baroque stuff tho

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Benjamin Britten

John Adams

Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, libretto co-written by W.H. Auden

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

Is there any constellation in which the opera gets to be leftist? I feel like it's either hideously expensive or alternatively subsidized by tax money on the basis of it's "high culture" despite 90% of people not having any interest in it

[-] LeZero@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago
[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Crucialy I have nothing for or against Opera as an art, what pisses me off is that it's seen as "high culture" and subsidized to no end

[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Some Chinese opera is pretty great. This is from the Long March song cycle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh63s2jyRXU

[-] ManFreakBeast@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

"Aw shit bro there's some dude in a mask killing the actors! Wait, is that your ex?"

[-] trabpukcip@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

It's like that "Derrick Comedy" yt bit with Donald Glover but I don't want to say the title of it

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

are pups allowed at the opera? scared

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