Othello

[knowit]

You don't like Wozzeck?! I'll take it over Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach any day!

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?

 

[tritonal]

You don't like Wozzeck?! I'll take it over Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach any day!

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

 

[Lex]

I love the comedies, especially A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It, but there's something about the tragedies that stays with you longer: they haunt you. Othello, Hamlet and MacBeth remain my three favourite Shakespearean works.

At my high school, we studied a different play by Shakespeare every year:

• 9th--Romeo and Juliet
• 10th --Julius Ceasar
• 11th--MacBeth
• 12th--Hamlet

I admit that trying to learn the nuances of Shakespeare at the age of 14 was very difficult. Luckily, my 9th grade English teacher also made us read As You Like It--nothing helps explain irony like that play.

If I had to rank my favorities, Hamlet and MacBeth would be neck and neck. I need to read Othello.

 

[GoneA]

loved hamlet, hated macbeth. julius ceaser was sufferable.

 

[treechopper]

as for villians 2 of lear's kids were not pleasent people.


"blow wind a crack your cheeks" would apeal to a lot of people in lpsg i would have thought
and old Oedipus was not a nice guy though he did have issues

 

[GoneA]

btw, there's a board game called: Othello?

*news*

 

[B_Hickboy]

btw, there's a board game called: Othello?

*news*

http://www.lpsg.org/arcade.php?do=play&gameid=232

 

[B_DoubleMeatWhopper]

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!

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!

 

[lacsap1]

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!

I'm a Classical Piano man, not strictly for the true classical genre, more like instrumentals with more contemporary style, like Michael Nyman, pianist/composer and did the motion picture, "The Piano" or Ryuichi Sakamoto. All pieces with emotion, brilliant and beautiful

Jacinto this one is for you;

http://www.dumpalink.com/post/1134559689/The_Piano

http://www.dumpalink.com/post/1134559689/The_Piano

Comptine D'Un Autre Ete: L'Apres Midi ", by Yann Tiersen.

It's in the carton clip. A master piece full of emotions and joy in contrast to loneliness and sadness.

 

[tritonal]

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!

I'm pretty sure that Amis was talking about the music that came out of the Second Viennese School and the other scary, unorthodox music that are usually what you think of when you think of twentieth-century music. There have certainly been plenty of twentieth-century composers who haven't followed that route. Shostakovich, Orff, Barber, Bartok. Sure, a little John Cage can be fun once in a while, but it's not something I could listen to regularly.

But now I'm totally not talking about opera. Oops.