David Flin
Bury my body in an unmarked grave
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- A Home Full of Love and Laughter
Does the campsite have room service?
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What's Opera, Doc? Part 2. Les Mis.
- Thread starter David Flin
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Does the campsite have room service?
If you ask me nice enough.Does the campsite have room service?
About that: one aspect of Maoist China that foreigners failed to make sense of was its reliance on operas as a propaganda tool. To Westerners the idea seemed laughable, but that's because, by then, opera was seen in the West as an elitist art form, whereas in China, it was something enjoyed by every social class.Writing a ‘musical’ in 1980 means aiming for Broadway and the West End and large audiences of the general public, whereas writing an ‘opera’ means you are aiming for the Met and Covent Garden and a small, select audience of classical music fans, as part of a divergence in cultures that originated in the 1920s. It’s worth considering how of the two existing traditions at the time – operas and operettas – the former essentially became seen as the domain of the privileged elite, and the latter evolved into a style so keen to divorce itself from any link to the former that it could absorb works that, stylistically speaking, lie entirely in the operatic tradition.
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- Derbyshire
About that: one aspect of Maoist China that foreigners failed to make sense of was its reliance on operas as a propaganda tool. To Westerners the idea seemed laughable, but that's because, by then, opera was seen in the West as an elitist art form, whereas in China, it was something enjoyed by every social class.
I mean this is very much about Western opera because Chinese Opera is a very different beast despite some similarities.
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Honestly the thing I can’t get over here is the extremely stretched nature of the pun in the title of this series
David Flin
Bury my body in an unmarked grave
- Location
- A Home Full of Love and Laughter
Honestly the thing I can’t get over here is the extremely stretched nature of the pun in the title of this series
Now I feel old.
Now I feel old.
Now illegal in Tennessee due to having a male rabbit in drag.
David Flin
Bury my body in an unmarked grave
- Location
- A Home Full of Love and Laughter
Now illegal in Tennessee due to having a male rabbit in drag.
But apparently bald men are having rabbits tattooed on their head, because from a distance they look like hares.
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Honestly the thing I can’t get over here is the extremely stretched nature of the pun in the title of this series
Take eight minutes to watch the short David linked, it’s very much worth the time.