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Yo-yo Ma looks like he thinks he died and went to heaven.

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I've always heard people making jokes about Wagnerian operas, how they are long and overbearing. I'm finding I'm enjoying what I'm listening to today though - but I am listening by song, not entire operas. I didn't know he wrote that bride song!

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It must be SO MUCH FUN to be an opera singer! Pavarotti just makes it look effortless.
But both of them, look how far away the mikes are from their mouths, but how strong their voices are.

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He did write some amazing stuff, but his operas can be quite long, and are considered among the most difficult works in opera to actually sing. His entire ring cycle is like 16 hours total...it is split up into 4 operas that he originally planned for people to watch back-to-back on 4 consecutive nights. I find that with his operas the music alone isn't sufficient - you really need to have good staging and good actors to keep the audience engaged. One thing that always surprises me about Wagner, is that as a person he was quite hateful/racist. But then, he goes and writes some of the most beautiful music.

Here are some of my favorite moments of Wagner...I still haven't tackled much of his Ring cycle though! (I already posted one previously: the ending of Parsifal):
"Good Friday Music" from Parisfal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwdYZWFrBBM
"Love Duet" from Tristan und Isolde: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OA6tDasa6s
Ending of Tristan und Isolde (I LOVE King Marke's part in this segment, even more than the oft-proclaimed Liebestod - I find it so touching): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAEkTK6aKUM
"In Fernem Land" from Lohengrin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syLhrx1Ogbo
"Siegfried's death" from Gotterdammerung: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVE50-X7tuI



If you really want to see something hilarious, look up some scenes of Siegfried fighting the dragon...this cracks me up for some reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS0bwKkXwEU



This thread has become my favorite on this entire forum, I'm loving it and finding a lot of good music!

I've been thinking all day how lucky we are to live in a world that has YouTube. Have also been watching programming classes on it today. Somebody should have gotten a Nobel Prize for humanitarian efforts for this.

I liked that, it was kind of funny though. I wish I understood all languages they sing in.

I listened to the Good Friday one, gave up and bought that CD. No point in running up a big internet bill to listen once.
Thanks for sharing that, I've never heard of that opera.

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Time for some girl power!

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And here she is at 76!

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That was great!

.. a dance of darkness

.. and a dance of light

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