Thread for discussion of the performs of opera, theatre and ballet.



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First topic: does anyone have suggestions for good translations of librettos, preferably anthologies? I find unless the performance is in person, that I enjoy opera a lot more without the visual and just listening (I tend to feel the same way about theatre), and I prefer to read the libretto if I can’t understand it, and figure I might as well find the translations with the most relish here.

>>21985764 (OP)

No way, an opera general. I didn't know this was /lit/. Went to the Messiah performance at the Royal Albert Hall back on goodfriday. Sat next to two elderly American tourists, and like Americans, they made small talk. They were retired professors who made their money on published text books on "computer chemistry"



Also people might find it fun to know it's tradition to stand for the Hallelujah chorus

>tradlarping in the fist reply to a novel thread

site has gone to the dogs

How am I tradlarping? What, because I went to a nonsecular opera on fucking good friday? They've perform Messiah every year for 147 years at the Royal Albert Hall, it's a fun and popular event. I'm also going to the figaro performance next month, what larp is that; I go to most opera performances in my area—I was just recounting the most recent one, fag.

next you'll tell me you watch ballet or something.

I saw Swan lake in March. What's wrong with that. It was performed at my local

Kek. Have a look at this low testosterone Nancy-boy. Let me guess, you carry an ornate cane tucked under your arm and quote ancient Greeks and romans daily in conversation? Cringe weirdos like you deserve to be heckled and beat up. This is assuming your under the age of 50

zzzzz

First of all, I am NOT a nancypantsy, I actually held the record most amount of suspensions in my secondary school, for getting into fights. I also intentionally barge into random dudes when walking about (by intentionally I mean I don't move out of the way because that's cucked so unless they move we collide) and try to pick fights with them if they bump into me. Thirdly, I don't have daily conversations because I don't have friends. I am a cringey weirdo but not in the way you described and I pride myself in never having lost a fight so try your best. There's nothing soft about like classical music.



If someone called me a sissy for liking some Schubert I would punch them in the nose.

>>21985764 (OP)

The greatest single aria for poetic pathos and vocal fireworks is "Die Frist ist um", performed by the incomparable Bryn Tercel, who I was fortunate enough to see in recital from the front row. 

I swear I will duel anyone who dares refute my claim. Come at me with your shitflinging spergery!

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Trad refers to the 1950’s, Handel wrote long before then



Have you seen Giselle? My personal favorite frequency performed ballet is Romeo and Juliet
