Opera tonight
Mar. 4th, 2004 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lovingbothThe Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" lasts 2 min 11 seconds.
Wagner's "Rhinegold" takes 2 hours and 35 minutes to make the same point.
Still worth seeing though, particularly at ENO. I saw their concert version (= singers on a bare stage, sometimes moving about a bit) a couple of years ago, and this year they're staging them all (= sets and acting too) with (I think, but haven't checked) the same cast. It does make a difference.
Wagner's "Rhinegold" takes 2 hours and 35 minutes to make the same point.
Still worth seeing though, particularly at ENO. I saw their concert version (= singers on a bare stage, sometimes moving about a bit) a couple of years ago, and this year they're staging them all (= sets and acting too) with (I think, but haven't checked) the same cast. It does make a difference.
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Date: 2004-03-05 01:13 am (UTC)ENO's season includes both their magnificent Magic Flute (the one that got me appreciating opera back in the 80s) and Carmen. Plus one of their wonderful Handel's (ideal for beginners as the lyrics don't matter - this is before composers started using songs to move the plot along - but they're fabulously sung).
In fact, there's only a couple of the fourteen I don't want to see.