Any opera lovers here?

[justlooking]

The best thing about Ernest Newman is that his name isn't Ernest Newman.

His real name is some typical English twit name.

He was (I think) a Liverpool banker who tried to pass as German when he wrote about opera.

 

[rajah]

Real name Robert Williams I think. Didn't know about the Liverpool banker part, interesting.

 

[Cat_Ballou]

Is it just me, or does going from Robert Williams to Ernest Newman seem like a horizontal shift, at best?

 

[Dondee]

It must be "just-you".....!





(a possible new avatar????)

 

[rajah]

"Ernest Newman" made it sound like he was really Herr Doktor Professor Ernst Neumann, ein grosser Musikologist.

 

[Cat_Ballou]

Originally posted by rajah
"Ernest Newman" made it sound like he was really Herr Doktor Professor Ernst Neumann, ein grosser Musikologist.

Oh, well, when you put it that way...

A grocer-musicologist: interesting hybrid...

;-)

 

[vermeer]

Has anyone here ever gotten it on at the met?
Those red velvet walls make me quite horny. ironically, i usually go by myself. although i did finger this chicks asshole, up in the balcony last year, during carmen....

 

[h. von bingen]

rajah & caitlin . . .

thanks for an illuminating discussion. if u have more please bring it on.

what about benvenuto cellini?

 

[rajah]

He was this goldsmith.

He wrote this autobiography.

 

[h. von bingen]

can't take a compliment rajah?

 

[rajah]

Seriously, I haven't seen the Met production and hope I will have a chance to. I'm big on Berlioz.

 

[rajah]

I wrote that BEFORE your "compliment" post, hvb.

 

[h. von bingen]

o okay. it was still a compliment. take it like a man. o u did.

 

[rajah]

Blame it on the 3-minute rule.

 

[Caitlin of New York]

Saw it last night. Damn it, though. I was late for curtain, and had to watch the first act on closed circuit in their lecture hall. I had never seen or heard the music. Didn't even know the story before I went. It was good, but not great.

 

[rajah]

Yeah, I've had that happen. Real bummer, specially considering what a ticket costs now.

I have never heard but bits and pieces of the music (radio). Not enough to have any real feeling for it.

Tell us more. How was the production? The singing? A lively production or a draggy one? Consistent or uneven? Who was conducting? (Not Jimmy as I recall, or was he?)

 

[justlooking]

Omigod, and that first act is something like an hour and a half, isn't it?

(I once was like five minutes late for Sigfried, and I had to spend like two years in the TV lounge.)

 

[justlooking]

(PS -- Yeah, Levine conducted Benvenuto Cellini.)

 

[rajah]

Originally posted by justlooking
Omigod, and that first act is something like an hour and a half, isn't it?

(I once was like five minutes late for Siegfried, and I had to spend like two years in the TV lounge.)

Count your blessings it wasn't Götterdämmerung. (First act longer than the whole of Rigoletto, I believe.)

 

[justlooking]

(Genuine, unsarcastic) thanks for the spelling correction.