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old2soon
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« on: March 22, 2025, 01:47:55 PM »

    Before y'all turn up yer noses and sneer this one jusy Might grab ya. Regular TV is in the rerun season and far Too many commercials season. So channel surfin last night I came across this Opera recorded at The Met in N Y. It's called Grounded. Follows what happened when a Female Air Force Combat Pilot was grounded and switched to flying drones from half a world away. I found it Very Interesting and I sort of figured what she was going thru as I have an adopted Grand Daughter who last I heard is a Major in the Air Force and I believe used to fly drones from half a world away. And recalling what I went thru upon My return to CONUS a Lot of years ago. Anywho check yer public channels and should you be able to access it this Opera I M H O Is worth a couple hours of yer time. Should it come on again in my area I Will see if I can catch it from the very start. RIDE SAFE.
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Jess from VA
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« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2025, 03:59:58 PM »

I listen to classical music.

I never listen to opera (I call them 'window breakers').  Grin

Although a good male tenor or baritone solo, I can enjoy.  No sopranos!
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Ron
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« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2025, 07:40:28 PM »

My wife and I love going to the opera but have never seen Grounded. It looks interesting, thanks for the heads up.  When on vacation we saw La Boheme at the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb. We would go to Santa Fe every summer to go to the opera at their outdoor opera house. They open the parking lots 3 hours before showtime, and the patrons have tailgating parties before the show. It’s a hoot. We did it for so many years that I ended up buying a small condo there. (Also, for the riding. Now it is Valk related) They have 5 different operas every season. Opera season is late June through August and is a great time to get out of AZ and up to the 7000 elevations of Santa Fe to get out of the heat.
Now the ribbing can begin.  Smiley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian_National_Theatre,_Zagreb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_Opera
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scooperhsd
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« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2025, 07:58:16 AM »

I can't say that I'm much of a fan of opera, but I play string Bass in a Community Orchestra. We play all kinds of music - classical, pop, music from 1900 - today. i also enjoy singing along with YouTube videos - I've got a 2.5-3 octave range (not too many people do) - Baritone to medium tenor - or as I like to put it in terms most people can understand - Josh Turner (not his deepest) to Josh Groben. I can do a respectable cover of Art Garfunkel singing "Bridge over Troubled Water". I can do the Star Spangled Banner.
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da prez
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« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2025, 01:42:18 PM »

  Bonnie (RIP) and I have been to nine opera houses around the world.  In Argentina , the opera house was brought from  France (if I remember correctly) .  It was dis-assembled and re assembled in Argentina.  There was no sound system . We sat about a hundred (?) feet from the stage and the sound and talking was heard as tho we were in the front row. The building was acoustically perfect.
  My take is that it had a better sound than the Sydney Australia opera house.

                                                   da prez 
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Jess from VA
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« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2025, 03:20:17 PM »

I can't say that I'm much of a fan of opera, but I play string Bass in a Community Orchestra. We play all kinds of music - classical, pop, music from 1900 - today. i also enjoy singing along with YouTube videos - I've got a 2.5-3 octave range (not too many people do) - Baritone to medium tenor - or as I like to put it in terms most people can understand - Josh Turner (not his deepest) to Josh Groben. I can do a respectable cover of Art Garfunkel singing "Bridge over Troubled Water". I can do the Star Spangled Banner.

Scott, I loved to sing too and did HS Glee Club (men's, whole choir, madrigal), and was also baritone to 2d tenor (not all of 1st).  Our choir master was probably the most beloved teacher in HS, and we competed and won things.  I sung in church too (not the choir, just from the pew).

Once in elementary school, our class did some singing, and I got a short solo (standing up) as soprano.  Man that was like a lifetime ago.   Smiley

30 years of tobacco killed my voice.  So I only sing to myself anymore (talk to myself too  Grin).  

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G-Man
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« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2025, 05:59:29 AM »

I am not an opera fan.  I don't like when dialogue is sung.  You have to listen way too carefully and it becomes tedious after 20 minutes.  I do like musicals where actual talking dialogue strings showtunes together, though. 

Maybe I'm just lazy, but I'm not a fan of having to work so hard to be entertained.  Same reason I don't like foreign films with subtitles.  I won't sit a "read" a movie.  I miss half of what goes on, don't get inflection or emphasis is voices, miss the expression in the face or eyes because I'm reading down below.  Not for me.
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scooperhsd
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« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2025, 06:07:59 AM »

I can't say that I'm much of a fan of opera, but I play string Bass in a Community Orchestra. We play all kinds of music - classical, pop, music from 1900 - today. i also enjoy singing along with YouTube videos - I've got a 2.5-3 octave range (not too many people do) - Baritone to medium tenor - or as I like to put it in terms most people can understand - Josh Turner (not his deepest) to Josh Groben. I can do a respectable cover of Art Garfunkel singing "Bridge over Troubled Water". I can do the Star Spangled Banner.

Scott, I loved to sing too and did HS Glee Club (men's, whole choir, madrigal), and was also baritone to 2d tenor (not all of 1st).  Our choir master was probably the most beloved teacher in HS, and we competed and won things.  I sung in church too (not the choir, just from the pew).

Once in elementary school, our class did some singing, and I got a short solo (standing up) as soprano.  Man that was like a lifetime ago.   Smiley

30 years of tobacco killed my voice.  So I only sing to myself anymore (talk to myself too  Grin). 


Me and all of my siblings carried our classes in elementry school Christmas programs. I sang in the church youth choir in 7th grade - my voice hadn't changed yet, so I sang 1st Soprano (yes, 1st), the first time we went above the staff, all the high school  girls looked at me like WTF ? Then came 8th grade / voice crashed, and it took me YEARS to find where I ended up at ( I quit going to church much after 7th grade). I've never touched tobacco (can't stand to be near it), my dad died in 1994 (age 57) from lung cancer (yes, he had been a lifetime smoker). At some of the funerals on my wife's side, one of the cousins who is a music teacher said that several family members came up to her and said they didn't realize I could sing.
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