...and tenderly beckons, Moby Dick, dearest Moby Dick!
As dear Rosalind Russell used to say, "It's about this whale..."
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15 January 2008
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9 Comments:
They don't make them like that anymore. And they can't. Opera is no longer part of the general conversation. That is also why great voices are rarer. In any case, "What's opera doc?" holds up much better, maybe because it is not quite so earnest. It pays tribute to the form as it makes fun of it.
How did he manage to swallow all of those opera singers and not swallow a Lucia? Personally, I understand it because I don't do fish, only meat. Schrott or Teddy Tahu Rhodes are more my speed.
I forgot to checl the box for follow up comments.oops
Dear la Cieca - this wonderful clip could not have been more timely with two of our whaling protestors being seized today in the Southern Ocean by the vile Japanese whalers.
I wonder if you hear anything about it "up there" but in case anyone doesn't know- the Japanese ignore an International whaling ban and every year kill thousands of whales (in our waters) saying it is "for research."
At the moment this awfully cruel practice is on the front of all our newspapers and takes much of our attention.
Oh, come on folks, you know it's Nelson Eddy as "Willie the Whale!" It was a Disney short made years ago, and when you consider what recording technology he had to work with back in those days it's sort of a miracle.
Eddy was on a verge of a real opera career at one time. Didn't he sing "Wozzeck" or something like that? Anyway, he met Jeannette and that was that.
Sandford :If some of these operatic 'beefcakes' bent over in a forward position, perhaps they might be able to naturally emit a more familiar and pleasing sound than the one they are supposedly famous for. "Nothing like correct posture when singing", we are always told. Apparently some singers do not know when to show a more natural initiative, when 'voicing'.
The call sign of a dumb, 'new wave' opera director unfurling his or her 'blank mental wallpaper': tits being flashed, willies waging and bare behinds.The piece de resistance'...actual contact. Everything from Monteverdi to Richard Strauss and beyond. Striptease burlesque: masquerading as high musical Art! You can be assured then, most likely you are at, a lousy 'slung together' production.
Anonymous, I realize that I haven't written as much as you have, what with several millenia's worth of stuff written in your name, but could you at least spell my name correctly?
I think it's very brave of him/her to be posting at all in what is clearly not his/her first language...
Well some people get up on their high bikes over nothing in particular. Sanford: because someone adds a D to their nickname, by mistake/ Amerjaquino on the other hand: apparently non-plussed, wishes to assume the role of a correcting English Expression master.
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