Opera for People Who Don’t Like It
The Stories Opera is more than just middle-aged fat people in period costumes making funny sounds. An opera is a play, with a plot. The only differences between operas and spoken plays are: (1) operas […]
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And Yet More Opera for People Who Don’t Like It
The Men (i.e. Tenors, Baritones and Basses) Male opera singers are just as crazy as the females, and just as likely to flay you alive if you get them mad, especially at performance time. Add […]
Yet More Opera for People Who Don’t Like It
Female Opera Singers and Other Wild Animals Most people think female opera singers look like this: Some of us look more like this: Most of us are somewhere in between: We’ve all heard the saying, […]
More Opera for People Who Don’t Like It
In my last post, I talked about prostitutes, psychos and tuberculosis. In this one, I will discuss various violent means by which operatic characters meet their ends. Some of these would make the ID Channel […]
Opera For People Who Don’t Like It
It has come to my attention that there are people who don’t like opera. My opinion is that we all have a right to dislike whatever we feel like disliking because we have free will, […]
The Big Audition
I wrote this as an exercise for an Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop. (Homework can come in handy.) This is a piece of flash fiction in a first person stream-of-consciousness style. Now that I have scared […]
Singing Opera and Writing Funny
Let’s get one thing out of the way first. I am weird, but not dangerous. Okay, maybe I’m dangerous when I’m on a stepladder trying to install anything. Other than that, I am harmless and […]