Opera. Stick your favorite, please!

You are a soprano, Lisa? - I'm inspired. Is it a full- or part-time role?; Which operas have you performed as soprano in?

Kevin

Sadly, I've only ever performed in college, and then in the chorus, or as a soloist in a recital. I did have a failed audition for the Cincinnati Opera, but that was as much because I wasn't prepared as anything else. I didn't even mention the audition to my voice teacher. She was less-than thrilled. Confidence issues, unsupportive parents - including passive-aggressive mom who was probably Borderline if not mildly schizophrenic. She fits in either.

I've performed in the chorus in Threepenny Opera and a couple others that escape me just now. I can't remember which ones I saw and which ones I was in. I also performed the mezzo solo part in Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols. Otherwise, I just couldn't handle it. In order to perform correctly, you gotta be able to put your all into it. I could do that easily enough in theater, but in music, I would actually be paralyzed by the emotion. More real than acting. It was me, rather than some character. Even when I was performing an aria - I wasn't Carmen or Dalilah or Dido up there, I was me.

<edit>My physical issues have taken my voice from me. Kidney disease, they're more than triple the size they should be, so causes ridiculous heartburn, which destroys the vocal chords. Still, I do sing around the house, and once I go back home, I'll probably rejoin the choir at my old Presbyterian church.</edit>

Thank for for this reply too, Lisa (I just replierd to another of your posts on a different thread). I can relate to how your physical condition has affected your goals, because I have ulcerative colitis which limits how far I can pus myself when I jog. It basically means that I probably won't get to do any marathons, which I had wanted to train for. instead, I do a few short jogs per week, and have been doing so for 8 or 9 years now.

Chucky wrote:Thank for for this reply too, Lisa (I just replierd to another of your posts on a different thread). I can relate to how your physical condition has affected your goals, because I have ulcerative colitis which limits how far I can pus myself when I jog. It basically means that I probably won't get to do any marathons, which I had wanted to train for. instead, I do a few short jogs per week, and have been doing so for 8 or 9 years now.

Oooh, got thoughts on that, but don't wanna hijack the thread. Only that I understand the reduced physical ability. Had lost 100 lbs, and regained 50 from a medication, and another 20 because I can't do the things I used to anymore. Even walking makes me sick if I go to long.

Okay, back to the Opera thing. So whomever wants, just post a favorite opera.

NGofCS wrote:
Oooh, got thoughts on that, but don't wanna hijack the thread. Only that I understand the reduced physical ability. Had lost 100 lbs, and regained 50 from a medication, and another 20 because I can't do the things I used to anymore. Even walking makes me sick if I go to long.

Okay, back to the Opera thing. So whomever wants, just post a favorite opera.

Thanks for the Operas, NGofCS. You can talk whatever you please in my threads. Don´t worry. I´m sorry you can´t sing opera anymore.
A hug!

NGofCS, I walked into a bookshop today and saw a 'book of facts'. I opened it at random and the first page that I opened was about operas! Also, it listed the various types of opera singers, including mezza soprano, soprano, tenor, etc.

Kevin

twistermind wrote:Thanks for the Operas, NGofCS. You can talk whatever you please in my threads. Don´t worry. I´m sorry you can´t sing opera anymore.
A hug!

Very kind, thank you.

Chucky wrote:NGofCS, I walked into a bookshop today and saw a 'book of facts'. I opened it at random and the first page that I opened was about operas! Also, it listed the various types of opera singers, including mezza soprano, soprano, tenor, etc.

Kevin

Gotta love little coincidences like that. I get that from time to time myself.

I never posted to this thread. My favorite opera would have to be Otello. It's got great music and it'sa great tragedy. Here's the great Tito Gobbi doing Iago's awsome credo. That Iago is so freaking EVIL. Gotta love that guy!

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/tito-gobbi-otello-credo-in-dio-crudel/53f8b0332987a45e9b1d53f8b0332987a45e9

Here's the great Tebaldi singing the willow song.

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/renata-tebaldi-the-willow-s-song-otello/7f1513e24571ce9cfc657f1513e24571ce9cfc65

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

My favourite is Il Trovatore, and this is the very famous Anvil Chorus.

marlbwife wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXFZckzjcKw

My favourite is Il Trovatore, and this is the very famous Anvil Chorus.

That's a very good one, marlbwife. Giuseppe Verdi has some other great pieces including the Requiem Mass (Dies Irae), La Donne E Mobile (from Rigoletto), and Brindisi (from La Traviata).