DC_DEEP said:
Oh, I don't know... The Queen of the Night is a pretty good villain, too.
I love
The Magic Flute, but it's such an allegory disguised as a fairy tale that I have trouble characterising the Queen of the Night as a villain in the usual sense of the word. She represents the Darkness of Ignorance vs. the Enlightenment of Freemasonry. I can't accept an idea as a villain.
Hmm, my twisted mind just envisioned Mariah Carey doing this aria...
That's a little
too twisted for me!
knowit said:
and here I was thinking I was the only person not to appreciate his work.
especially On G. I mean, is it just me, or was that nearly entirely pointless?
I wouldn't exactly say 'pointless'. It has a purpose as an exercise, but it abysmal as a performance piece.
Oh man, I wouldn't even call that an opera. I'm a Mozart guy. As far as opera goes, anyway.
"Twentieth-century music is like pedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the public at large, who will continue to regard it with incomprehension, outrage and repugnance." --Kingsley Amis
I love Mozart. But I can't agree with Amis's view. There are notable twentieth-century composers that have produced operas that the public at large accepts. Among them are Aaron Copeland, George Gershwin, Benjamin Britten, André Previn, Gian Carlo Menotti, Carlisle Floyd ... and consider that most of Giacomo Puccini's operas are twentieth-century works
. La Bohème and
Madama Butterfly not accepted by the public at large? Bullshit!