Opera - you like it?

[kennedia_nigricans]

I only like opera in languages i understand (which sorta reduces it to my 1st language as i don't know if there are any GOOD operas in english?).

I want to know what is going on (especially when i am listening to it for 3 hours).

[poddster]

In that case my condolences 🙂

[kennedia_nigricans]

he is a pom who does not like england becasue it's full of poms.

he is an aussie at heart. we put aussie flags on the car on bogan day.

i don't know if i could live with a real pom.

he is becoming more krauty every day he eats waffles...a speciality from the county i come from (bergische waffeln).

where do you live?

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

BEEFCAKES!! do the beefcakes

I miss New Years on the beach. You get two goes at getting mauled by beefcakes on the gold coast

[poddster]

Wherever I hang my hat is home 🙂

At the monent it is hanging in the land downunder, Downunder

[lind9650]

Kenndia, why did you come to Australia?

Warum bist Du nach Australien gekommen?

Erica 

[amber-eyed-girl]

I love opera.

Verdi

Mozart

Puccini

Handel (there you are, Xerxes in English...)

Wagner

Rossini

Bellini

Strauss

and I have favorite singers and conductors and orchestras...

Joan Sutherland

Renata Tibaldi

Victoria de los Angeles

for Wagner...Christa Ludwig...Birgit Nillson (if you think women can only caterwaul, you really need to hear the great, classical singers; her live Isolde just completely knocks you over, rips you apart and leaves you thunderstruck)

conductors for opera: Karl Bohm (Wagner live), sometimes Herbert von Karajan (Strauss, some Wagner) is what I have been listening to recently.

[poddster]

Happy New Year Amber

Here have a pressie 🙂

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A60tQ--67MY&list=PLDD89ED3DB63A3324

[amber-eyed-girl]

Happy New Year to you too 🙂

thank you ❤️

more a fan of her middle-lower registers, which she nails in this one...lovely 🙂

[tasfleur]

You might like to listen to Henry Purcell's "Dido and Anneas", and then there is Handel, who was German, but wrote a lot of music for voice in English as well .. hope that is helpful xx

[fourandsixpants]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btee1YCfGEE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZblcprACQOs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHUb55uWuAY