Loved it Doggo. I have it on CD but I like the clever introduction during the overture and brilliantly opening the opera within the battle scarred cardboard box.
I'll certainly get the DVD if available.
Ted
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Dog, another good production was the Metropolitan's Madame Butterfly. The role of Sorrow, the 3 yr old boy was very touchingly played.......a brief performance in the finale here...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpjvgT0f3qs
Ted
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Thanks Ted - I've only watched part one of H & G so far ( I haven't met the Witch, yet) but I really enjoyed the opera so I'll be giving Madame Batterfry a session later in the week.
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This is the WW1 production I began watching on Christmas day Ted - you probably remember it from the 1960's,
I've got the full 26 episodes but am only on episode 9 today, due to the casulties we're taking + the lack of amo,
Over 15,000,000 dead and 20,000,000 wounded in 4 years of total war.
"Lest we forget" www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHm7fNDDY9Y
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I've got that set as well, Doggy. Plus ' The Great War in Colour ' and 'The World at War ' All free with the Daily Mail.
I got Butterfly off the Virgin+ box and on to DVD. Likewise, their production of Boheme where they brought virtually a whole town onto stage in one go.
I don't know if I can copy them but if you want, I'll have a go.
Ted
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Just back from the Dardanelles [stop] 200,000 casualties [stop] had to order the withdrawal [stop]
Such a tragic waste of life (stop!)
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Don't remember that bit - is it before or after Gretel pushes the old crone in the oven?
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>>Don't remember that bit - is it before or after Gretel pushes the old crone in the oven?<<
Hehe! wonderful olde tale (if a bit Grimm) remembered from our childhood days
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hansel-and-gretel-rackham.jpg
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Whoops ! Said it all again !
Ted
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Absolutely brilliant and luved every minute of it Ted, I'll pass on the Batterfry & La bohème offer, but thanks,
Was there an opera or musical staged for my favorite classical composition I wonder?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOq9NjdLxlw
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Can't ever recollect a visual version. It was written as a symphonic suite but would lend itself very nicely to a ballet, perhaps ?
Ballet ? The Rite of Spring for me !
Ted
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Can't say much Ted, I've just got back from The Somme :(
51 British and 48 French divisions against 50 German divisions,
Result - more than 1 million casualties = Indecisive.
Bloke I used to work with in the 70's introduced me to Scheherazade, he also told me about a stage version,
but as you say - it must have been a ballet.
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Wonderful Ted ~ Thank you!
To me, it's akin to the multi-orgasms Women have every time they make love,
I shall have to seek out a full set of DVD's, in Blu-ray if possible, and buy the Blu-ray player I keep putting off.
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You must have known a different type of female species than the rest of us!
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>>You must have known a different type of female species than the rest of us!<<
Either that, or you're not doing it right ;)
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Feast your eyes upon this Ted, part 3 is just too much!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUXSL81owSg&feature=related
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Wonderful thread - right up my street.
Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel is lovely stuff, very Wagnerian in many ways, but without the overblown stuff that Wagner himself often produced. (Last summer I sat through Tristan at Grange Park - all three hours plus of it - mainly out of loyalty to my son, who had a small role - and it's a bit indigestible for me, despite some fantastic moments.) H & G is pure gold all through, especially the Overture, but as a horn-player myself I'm probably biased.
The Rite of Spring would be in my Top Ten any day, as would possibly be Sheherazade. And there is a connection - Stravinsky was Rimsky-Koraskov's teacher and there's little doubt that the latter's acknowledged mastery of orchestral colour rubbed off on his pupil - perhaps Ted and Dog like or would like The Firebird? There's a brilliant ballet score in every sense of the word!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWRvhLrP3U8
(I have decided against commenting on female orgasms. I could, but I won't. So there.)
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"Stravinsky was Rimsky-Koraskov's teacher..."
DOH!!!
Pupil, pupil - should be pupil!
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Yup, All brilly stuff. I have the Firebird and Petrushka on viseotape. The Rite O>S> is a marvellous, earthy, pagan sort of thing. It led to riots at it's first performance in Paris in 1913 ( I think )
Ted
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I can see many fellow ' culture vultures ' here.
Lovers of the English language might like this......Not an opera but a piece by Vaughan-Williams with words spoken by John Westbrook, a Radio 3 announcer at the time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jnYoRAxrqE
The words are taken from two poems by Matthew Arnold, The Scholar Gypsy and Thyrsis.
I heard this on Radio 3 about 30 years ago and I've never heard it played since although I was lucky to find someone who had it on LP and lent it for me to put on tape.
I'm very fond of spoken word pieces. I have, amongst others...VW's Antarctic symphony with Ralph Richardson, Copeland's Lincoln Portrait with Henry Fonda, VW's Pilgrim's Progress with John Gielgud, Walton's Henry V with Olivier and a couple of versions of Under Milkwood with Burton on one and Hopkins on the other.
The Hopkins is interesting because, apart from Alan Bennett, the whole cast is Welsh..
Ted
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I've got a selection of Professor Anthony Clare's "In the Psychiatrist's Chair" on cassette tape :)
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Thanks for The Firebird link FP, I'll have to add that to my 'must watch' list for this week,
I'm watching 10 episodes of www.channel4.com/programmes/camelot on DVD at the moment (and wow!)
I know Cornwall (the real) so Camelot is part of Cornwall's history really en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_of_Cornwall
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Hänsel und Gretel at Glyndebourne - Ted
