Opera: should women in trouser roles pack?

Should women playing men in opera (or plays) pack their trousers?

  • Yes, they should.

    Votes: 13 41.9%
  • No, they shouldn't.

    Votes: 8 25.8%
  • Whatever they do is fine by me.

    Votes: 10 32.3%

  • Total voters
    31

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Way to go Snozzle. Who would have thought a thread without a single reference to body fluids could receive so many replies and thoughtful consideration? I wouldn't have given it a snowball's chance in hell, but we have lots of opera fans here I guess. My heart is warmed.
 

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ManiacalMadMan said:
Do you attend the opera for the story and the music or just to stare at all the crotches? If you stop and stare at every crotch in every film, play or musical production there will be plenty of times where you most likely won't be getting a bulging crotch image which if you really have an interest in the arts won't matter at all to you.

So, again I must ask you, What exactly is your purpose for attending the opera? Crotch viewing or enjoyment of the performance on stage? Is it possible Snzzle that you are becoming crotchety?

AMEN!! Thanks, Maniacal, you have said what I frequently think of all these groups and there perpetual search for yet another bulging basket. Most of the bulges, I suspect, are imaginary.:cool:
 

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Snozzle said:
This'll raise the tone:

I went to Gounod's Faust last night. The role of Siebel, Marguerite's lover, is played by a woman (because it calls for a high voice) in male drag. "He" showed no bulge at all, making it harder to think of her as a man, or if as a man, a castrated one.

Do you think women in trouser roles (Octavian in Rosenkavalier is another) should pack?


pro: as above, it makes them more realistic as men
con: it draws undue attention to their genitalia, and we've already had to suspend our disbelief in regard to their voices

Some mezzos do pack when doing pants role......not too much to attention !!!!!:smile: I really do think they should!
 

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fliegles said:
AMEN!! Thanks, Maniacal, you have said what I frequently think of all these groups and there perpetual search for yet another bulging basket. Most of the bulges, I suspect, are imaginary.:cool:

Balls! This thread is not about "the search for a bulging basket" at all. It's about the interplay between realism and illusion in the theatre. Would a bit of a bulge make a woman singing a male role less unconvincing? After all, men with big dongers can have high voices.

I feel sad for those who go through life looking for the worst in everybody.
 

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Snozzle said:
Balls! This thread is not about "the search for a bulging basket" at all. It's about the interplay between realism and illusion in the theatre. Would a bit of a bulge make a woman singing a male role less unconvincing? After all, men with big dongers can have high voices.

I feel sad for those who go through life looking for the worst in everybody.
The fact of the matter remains that you seem to have a desire to have the female, as you put it:"Pack". Now, if you are actually listening to the music and the story (the singing) then it really won't matter a hill of beans what the crotch area is looking like. Why exactly are you so preoccupied with crotches?