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sw – if you get the oportunity try and go to see an opera in manchester – the productions there tend to be the more popular lighter operas by the likes of verdi, puccini or bizet, i have to admit that alot of the germanic or russian stuff is not to my taste.
I work in Manchester, so I may very well do that.
I take it a skin-full before isn’t the done thing?!
Used to play a lot of operatic arrangements when I played in a brass band years ago. One of my favourites was the Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana. Can’t remember the composer though.
Me thinks LMB has finally bumped into that little thing called GOOGLE. ;) :roll:
PS. RIGOLETTO, English National Opera, Almost incredible to think that this production by Jonathan Miller was first seen in the early 1980s – almost long enough ago to make it a ‘traditional’ production! It still works as convincingly as when I first saw it – in fact I would go so far as to say that it is MORE convincing than some genuinely ‘traditional’ productions I have seen….the Mafia-dominated 1950s New York is just as corrupt as the court of the Duke of Mantua (Francois I of France in Hugo’s Le Roi s’amuse – Verdi had trouble with the censors again), and it is still about a powerful ‘boss’ who can – and does – have any woman he chooses and discard her once he gets bored with her, who has henchmen who don’t hesitate to dispose of anyone who crosses his will.
Watching this production, I was struck again by the attention to detail displayed by the chorus and the singers of the minor roles, who all actually looked very smart in 1950s costumes.That’s just my opinion like…. ;)
From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!
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