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$6m to stage Wagner's Ring in LA
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Posted on 09/07/2006 12:22:24 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
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To: sitetest; kiriath_jearim
I sure hope they tape it. :)
To: Mariner
Staging the enire cycle is indeed ambitious. I hope the L.A. Opera is up to the task.
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posted on
09/07/2006 12:44:11 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: kiriath_jearim
Photo of Liszt and von Bulow:
![](http://www.karadar.com/Jpg/Liszt_image_04.jpg)
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To: ExpatCanuck
Hey now!
Don't tell me that you were disappointed with the Dubuque Theatre Company's version of "The Ring"?
I found it spell-binding. :)
To: San Jacinto
Let's just make that a $5 million production and give the extra mil. to those left homeless by that last attack by Fafner.
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posted on
09/07/2006 12:56:19 PM PDT
by
Socratic
("I'll have the roast duck with the mango salsa.")
To: kiriath_jearim
![](http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2005/nov/murch/apocalypse_200.jpg)
Oh, yeah!
To: Grendel9
trilogy!? Is that the edited version of the 4 opera ring cycle?
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posted on
09/07/2006 1:10:57 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: kiriath_jearim
Tenor Placido Domingo, who is general director of the opera company,
thanked Eli and Edythe Broad - who made money from house building -
for the donation.
I guess "progressive" Angelenos will forgive Broad's killing all those
trees and contributing to "non-smart" urban sprawl...
for a $6 million donation?
Or maybe it's an "indulgence" for all that dirty, evil money Broad will
be making in the future?
Not knocking opera...just noting the hyprocrisy of the progressive and
arts crowd in LA!
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posted on
09/07/2006 1:22:16 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: kiriath_jearim
Cosima was a Bitch with a capital B. She went out of her way to downplay her father's achievements in favor of her husband and when Liszt happened to die while visiting them in Bayreuth she insisted he buried there and not in Hungary or France which he had much more of a connection there. She was also much more anti-semitic then her husband and met with Hitler in the 1920s.
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posted on
09/07/2006 1:29:55 PM PDT
by
Borges
To: kiriath_jearim
I like the overture to his opera "Tannhauser" Yes, and Jorge Bolet's version of the Liszt transcription. Sublime.
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posted on
09/07/2006 1:35:00 PM PDT
by
jammer
To: jammer
Ever hear Horowitz play the Liszt transcription of the Liebstod? He recorded it days before his death and it's some of the most erotic piano playing ever.
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posted on
09/07/2006 1:37:52 PM PDT
by
Borges
To: kiriath_jearim
My favorite..... I even named my best shooting pistol (1911), "Woton" and the ugly Glock, "Brunhilda".
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posted on
09/07/2006 1:45:17 PM PDT
by
Capt_Hank
(btu's...kcal's...to kJ's, but my activation energy is still high.)
To: kiriath_jearim
Man, it would be great if Bryn Terfel was in the cast. What voice and presence.
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posted on
09/07/2006 1:47:08 PM PDT
by
TexanToTheCore
(This space for hire...)
To: San Jacinto
I hope they don't stage it in their usual 'underpants' costumes and 'whore-house' sets. Last time I attended LA Opera I BOOED at the end. You wouldn't think they could ruin Mozart, but think again. Don Giovanni/ the women were dressed like Madonna. I contacted LA Opera and they said, 'People LOVE our new productions.' oh I bet.
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posted on
09/07/2006 2:06:41 PM PDT
by
bboop
(Stealth Tutor)
To: kiriath_jearim
I can't afford the admission, so I have to settle on Wagner's Ring Tone.
To: kiriath_jearim
"The Flying Dutchman" is out standing.
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posted on
09/07/2006 2:22:44 PM PDT
by
Little Bill
(A 37%'r, a Red Spot on a Blue State, rats are evil.)
To: Borges
No, I don't believe I have. I'll try to find it. Thanks for your recommendation! I DO love the Earl Wild version.
But that would be a perfect piece for Horowitz, so I'll get it.
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posted on
09/07/2006 10:11:22 PM PDT
by
jammer
To: MplsSteve
'Course, we aren't blessed with
huge costume/staging productions
here in the States on the level
of those performed in Europe, but
it's going to be a once-in-a-life-
time event for some of us.
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posted on
09/08/2006 7:06:40 AM PDT
by
Grendel9
To: Grendel9
I absolutely agree.
I'm not much of an opera fan - but if the tickets weren't priced out of reach, I'd go to part of it.
To: CholeraJoe
LOL!
"North winds bwow, south winds bwow, huwwicanes, typhoons....SMOG!"
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posted on
09/08/2006 7:27:07 AM PDT
by
Recovering Hermit
(AIDS and islam...two preventable diseases.)
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