[lit-ideas] The Opera Club
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:20:59 -0500 (EST)
In a message dated 2/18/2012 2:46:29 P.M. UTC-02, tehart@xxxxxxx writes:
have listened to the complete Mozart, in addition to several operas.
Recent favorites include Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutti, Capriccio, and Lulu.
Good to learn. I love "Cosi fan tutte", and find it odd (but
understandable) that this piece was never too popular, when it HAD to be
popular, due to
its risque subject-matter.
Re: "Don Giovanni", I was recently reading Watson's essay (available
online) on Wagner's Heldentenors. Apparently, Wagner's conception of a new kind
of hero-tenor arose from his having experienced the wrong things (in
Wagner's eye/ear) that Rubini (whom he heard at the "Teatro italiano" in
Paris)
did to "Il mio tesoro".
The Met is broadcasting live in HD some good stuff. Next is "Ernani", which
features that beautiful 'marching' song, Let the lion of [Venezia] awaken,
in the third act. And so on.
Strauss possibly understood opera better than most, and I'm warmed up by
the fact that he found time to compose an opera on "Dafne", the
subject-matter of the first Italian opera ever!
Cheers,
Speranza
--- "The opera club" was the name of a club that actually existed at the
old Met. It was modelled upon another club originated at the Paris opera.
Apparently ALL opera theatres (worth being called so) had such, as they
should.
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