[Magdalen] It Trittico Opera Stuff.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Yes. It is interesting how people can love serious music and still not care
much for opera.  I too can enjoy the occasional aria, but just don't care
for all of the opera at once.

There are some folks who are the opposite, in that they love those long
things and are actually turned off by a program of short pieces.  I recall
someone saying pretty much that on this list a while back.



James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
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On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> I freely admit to not liking opera. As a kid, I used to bail out of the
> house on Saturday afternoons when my parents listened to "Live from the
> Met" full blast, and if I couldn't leave, I barricaded myself in my room
> with the door closed, and once I got my own radio, I played something
> else....anything else...to try to cover it up.
>
> That said, I figured out later on that I *do* like some individual arias. O
> Mio Babbino Caro is one. Un Bel Di from Madama Butterfly is another, and of
> course there's Nessun Dorma. But do not ever ask me to listen to an entire
> opera, or attend one. I've applied my parents' "3 times" rule, and I still
> don't like it.
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Georgia DuBose <gdubose at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Cady invited local Magdalen folk to help her usher at the Castleton
> > Festival in Rappahannock County, Virginia in 2010. I accepted, and Il
> > Trittico was the bill, conducted by Loren Maazel, the founder of the
> > festival. The performances were amazing, and a woman named Joyce
> > El-Khoury was Lauretta in Gianni Scicchi, thus singing Mio Babbino
> > Caro. She was amazing. Everyone was amazing.
> >
> > Georgia+
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Like many others, I was introduced to this gorgeous aria in the opening
> > minutes of my favorite movie, A Room With a View. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa,
> > IIRC. Then that wonderful duet starting with the piano, from La Rondine,
> as
> > our lovers-to-be lose themselves to lust in the Florentine countryside
> but
> > are interrupted by Maggie Smith.
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPad
> > >
> > >> On Oct 7, 2015, at 9:44 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> > magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> The O Mio Babbino Caro piece became instantly a favorite opera
> > >> melody for me, and is certainly one of Puccini's best.  My CD
> features
> > >> a favorite Romanian soprano, Angela Gheorghiu.
> >
>