• FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]
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    9 days 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 [he/him]
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      9 days 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 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      9 days 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 [any]
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        9 days ago

        Benjamin Britten

        John Adams

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

  • 7bicycles [he/him]
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    9 days 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 [he/him]
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      9 days ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_opera

      • 7bicycles [he/him]
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        9 days 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

  • ManFreakBeast [he/him]
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    9 days ago

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

  • trabpukcip [he/him]
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    9 days ago

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