Opera for People Who Don’t Like It
Those Crazy Germans In my last lesson, I mentioned opera plots and how they are reminiscent of lurid cable TV channels that specialize in re-enacted crimes. As an example, I gave the plot of Verdi’s […]
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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 […]
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, […]
Rich White U.S. Boomers Shown to be Most Repulsive Creatures in Universe
A new study by The Institute for Informed Discrimination has determined that the upper income fifty to seventy year-old heterosexual white American male is the most reviled creature in the universe. This is the first […]
How can we be lovers, if we can’t be friends?
Although I’m as perfect as anybody can be, I do realize that you’re going to be jealous but that’s okay, you’ve good reason to be. Having said that, I don’t have all the answers even […]
I bet Bob Seger didn’t think about that…
If Bob Seger loved old time rock and roll so much, he should have done something other than write a “new-time” rock and roll song about it. I would think a t-shirt would have […]
Being #2 Ain’t Bad
The other day I saw one of those “news” pieces about The 25 Happiest Cities In America. Salt Lake City came in at #2. The authors obviously didn’t live in Salt Lake because they based […]