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Saturday, January 28. 2023

Pop music for a Saturday afternoon


The most-performed opera. I read that it is on stage somewhere in the world every day of the year.


Why? Because nothing has more memorable tunes. Well, the melodrama has power too, and it's a challenging job for whoever plays the floozy Violetta because she gets few breaks from the stage.


150 years since it hit the stage, people still hum the tunes just as the street-sweepers and bartenders did back then.  


The performance below was outdoors, so the characters wear mini-mikes. In an opera house, no mikes. Click on "Watch on Youtube."



Posted by Bird Dog at 16:33 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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Seems a bit strange to have microphones taped to the singers' foreheads. Kinda distracting on video, but maybe not noticed so much by the live audience.
#1 sparkee on 2023-01-28 20:46 (Reply)
I'll have to finish it tomorrow. Those singers with the forehead mikes, that's a new one. I keep getting images that they're Klingons, and it's cracking me up.
#2 Aggie on 2023-01-28 23:08 (Reply)
Really? I would have thought that La Boheme or Carmen are more popular.
#3 Ben David on 2023-01-29 05:37 (Reply)
It's my favorite, but I too would have thought Boheme or Carmen would be the most performed.
#4 T Migratorious on 2023-01-29 06:28 (Reply)
The video is "unavailable"... could somebody please post at least which opera this is?
#5 Janet on 2023-01-29 07:15 (Reply)
I'm not surprised that the most performed isn't La Boheme. I like La Boheme, but let's be honest, it doesn't have the toe-tapping tunes that La Traviata or Carmen has. I'd've thought, actually, Barber of Seville might've been. But I can see La Traviata. The mics are a little distracting on video but I bet they're barely noticable from the audience. But watching the video, they did look like Klingons, or some Star Trek alien.
#6 Lee Also on 2023-01-29 07:38 (Reply)
First opera I ever saw, when I was 15.

I sold tickets to get a free one. The lady usher at the municipal auditorium couldn't believe I was a legitimate ticket holder.

Saw it again about 5 years ago in Seoul. My Korean girlfriend cried at the end.
#7 Whitehall on 2023-01-29 07:59 (Reply)
Which opera is it? Video link is down.
#8 Ann K. on 2023-01-29 08:50 (Reply)
I wouldn't have guessed La Traviata. I'd go for Carmen every time. La Traviata goes in one of my ears and out the other.
#9 Texan99 on 2023-01-29 09:44 (Reply)

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