The day my friend & I saw Parsifal at the Met, we came from watching a
3 hour movie, The Goalie's etc, so that was a long slow day. Music
lovely, but all those people standing in one place for an hour or
so... (the opera was 5 hours!).
But I confess I am not that much of an opera fan (although when I
heard Wozzeck, Ken, I also thought, Ah, so that's one of the
possibilities (& I think I heard that same broadcast), as someone
listening to bop, I found the music made perfect sense to me (I was
young, & not yet so much into 'classical' music).
Doug
On 12-May-09, at 6:25 AM, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
> Kenneth Wolman wrote:
>>
>> No one does. I was making a desperate effort at a comparison. Oh
>> well. We have titling here too, sub- and sur-. But way back when
>> if you didn't know the basic libretto outlines, it could be a long
>> day. Easter Sunday 1960 I sat through *Parsifal* without knowing
>> squat about what was going on. Who was on the cross again?....
>>
>> k
>
> My error. It was Good Friday 1960. And some of it comes back: an
> 1883 opera house with no ventilation, it was 80 degrees where I was
> sitting, and I had not a clue what the fine points were about (Boy
> kills swan....Boy fights of temptress....Boy heals Fisher
> King...Temptress croaks....oh well).
>
> ken
>
>
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