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dongiovanni
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03 Feb 2008, 6:52 pm

Because I am.

I love the Romantic ecstasy aesthetic (i.e. so much emotion that I can't even handle it). I love the texts. I think that Siegfried was unintentionally made into an aspie (because he only knew Mime and the information that Mime wanted him to know). The assertion "Nun ficht mit mir oder sei mein Freund" (Now fight with me or be my friend.) has to be my favourite in all of opera.

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03 Feb 2008, 7:08 pm

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03 Feb 2008, 7:50 pm

I like his music, but I do not like the man.



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03 Feb 2008, 7:55 pm

he had some strange ideas. It was his descendants that sold out to the Nazis (though anyone who makes a tune called "Hymn to Aryan Superiority" I gotta wonder about...;)


I like him in limited doses...;)



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04 Feb 2008, 3:06 am

Dhp wrote:
I like his music, but I do not like the man.


That kind of goes without saying. He hated Brahms.


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05 Feb 2008, 9:33 am

he hated Nietzsche in the end too

ive only got a compilation thing at the moment but it is awesome, ive been meaning to dl one of his operas


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