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saphisticate (July 23, 2008 at 9:54 pm)
You are accusing people of intellectual snobbery, yet you are guilty of snobbery yourself. You simply take a different route to pretensions -- you criticize your fellow Americans and Englishmen for what you assume is lacking in their spiritual response to music.
It is not "intellectual" analysis that keeps Americans en masse from appreciating opera, it is the cultural climate that reveres a fast buck and fast entertainment; it is an anti-classics attitude that reviles culture as "snobbish".
kalindoscopy (July 17, 2008 at 2:06 am)
One to watch out for.. I hope it gets made and turns out to be (surprisingly, considering the recent flurry of bio-pics) excellent.
IronSabine (July 16, 2008 at 7:38 am)
I was ready for an argument, but, enough said.
Concerning Vivaldi, Joseph Fiennes was supposed to portray him in a biographical film this year. I sincerely hope hollywood has'nt cancelled out on this one, they couldnt have chosen a more suitable actor to
portray such a magnificent composer who, like Mozart, lived an emotionally turbulent life that ended even more tragically.
kalindoscopy (July 15, 2008 at 9:51 pm)
You presume to know what others feel about music. I don't normally have time for that sort of attitude and I see no reason to make an exception for you.
Vivaldi and Monteverdi are two of my favourites though, so you get points for that, if nothing else!
IronSabine (July 15, 2008 at 4:53 am)
Kalindoscopy,
Profoud, yet too subjective to to carry any real weight.
If you think my statement was racist, you should examine your conscience and ask yourself what the definition of racism is.
And as far as floods of Manic passion are concerned, I find the term can descrive the moods of Mozart and Beethoven's , but hardly
Vivaldi or Monteverdi.
I think you are angry that my comment made you think of yourself,
dont you agree?
kalindoscopy (July 12, 2008 at 6:09 pm)
enjoying something as profound as music in the quiet of our own souls (minds/imaginations, whatever you prefer) is a lot more honest than floods of maniac passion. Not that I agree with your sweeping (vaguely racist) generalisations :)
italianoperafan (July 12, 2008 at 5:56 pm)
It is true, the voice is digital not "human": Farinelli's voice was provided by a soprano, Ewa Małas-Godlewska and a countertenor, Derek Lee Ragin, who were recorded separately then digitally merged to recreate the sound of a castrato.
JadellEJ (July 8, 2008 at 5:17 pm)
I seem to have seen this movie more than 10 times, definitely is one of my favourites.
IronSabine (July 8, 2008 at 4:40 am)
For Crying out loud, what an anglosaxon
lot you all are. There has not been a passionate response to "lascia ch'io pianga"-
"let me cry" by anyone of you, just a monotonous barrage of intellectual nonsense that serves as a prime example why it is Europeans (Southern Eurpoeans in Particular)
who attract waves of audiences to hear them sing, not Americans or Englishmen.
Dont listen to the music, feel it, and stop
playing professor. In this particular scene, Handel did.
fattymaddy (July 8, 2008 at 3:48 am)
its here on youtube, they showed how they used 2 voices to make one. |
