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    The Red Sea

    R.I.P. Hildegard Behrens

    Telegraph Writer: Skinny Opera Singers More Believable, Hotter

    R.I.P. Betty Allen

    What A Diva

    What Lies In The Shadow Of The Statue

    Ballet Shoes Feeling Extra Painful

    Opera: The "Last Musical Bastion" Of Segregation

    Opera Singer Is Rehired After She Loses Over 100 Pounds Through Gastric Bypass
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    08/24/09

    In reply to The Red Sea
    I would certainly like to visit Dresden.
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    Image of Rocket Queen Rocket Queen
    08/24/09

    In reply to The Red Sea
    Reminds me of a scene in Inglourious Basterds.
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    Image of JinxyMcDeath JinxyMcDeath
    08/24/09

    @Rocket Queen: Ha! I see I'm not the only one who can't stop thinking about that movie. Loved it.
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    Image of greengrey greengrey
    08/24/09

    @JinxyMcDeath: I want to see it again. So good.
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    Image of Rocket Queen Rocket Queen
    08/24/09

    @JinxyMcDeath: LOVED IT!!! So much. I was there was a thread we could discuss it in. The first scene was so sad. And Landa. Incredible and villainous.
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    08/19/09

    In reply to R.I.P. Hildegard Behrens
    When your name is Hildegard, you pretty much have to grow up to be an opera singer.
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    Image of GeorgeFayne GeorgeFayne
    08/19/09

    @morninggloria: You can also be a crazy hallucinating nun, but yes, options are limited.
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    Image of Maritsa Maritsa
    08/19/09

    @morninggloria: Or a Valkyrie. I hear the position is hard to come by, but once you're in, you have total job security.
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    Image of JerseyGrrrl JerseyGrrrl
    08/17/09

    In reply to Telegraph Writer: Skinny Opera Singers More Believable, Hotter
    This has been a day of great writing for you, Ms. Anna N! Really enjoyed this, as I enjoy opera but don't obsessively follow it.

    I wonder if in this era of movies and TV, which show us perfectly matched and beautiful couples, audiences are losing the ability to make the mental leaps required to look at a black Butterfly or a white Aida. Or to accept the passion of a visually "mismatched" couple (one partner a foot shorter than the other and half the age, for example). And maybe that's a problem for traditional opera. People are looking for operas to be cast on looks, and that's just not how it's done.

    I always enjoy the sound of opera, and often when I attend, I don't bother with translations or conscious watching of the staging (though that may be my qualms with the Met's new uber-modern staging). I just want to hear it, to the point where I wouldn't mind having it performed without staging. I wonder if anyone does the same?
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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    08/18/09

    @JerseyGrrrl: "I wonder if in this era of movies and TV, which show us perfectly matched and beautiful couples, audiences are losing the ability to make the mental leaps required to look at a black Butterfly or a white Aida."

    IMO you're being very generous, assuming they had it to begin with.
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    Image of jbrecken jbrecken
    08/17/09

    In reply to Telegraph Writer: Skinny Opera Singers More Believable, Hotter
    Now how will the audience know when it's over?
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    Image of andBegorrah andBegorrah
    08/17/09

    In reply to Telegraph Writer: Skinny Opera Singers More Believable, Hotter
    What a bunch of bel-licose cant-o.
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    Image of mezzosop mezzosop
    08/17/09

    In reply to Telegraph Writer: Skinny Opera Singers More Believable, Hotter
    I am a young opera singer---2008 marked the beginning of my professional career. I have a big voice, and a big body. The field has definitely, in the last decade, become much more aesthetically minded. With all the HD simulcasts from the met---opera singers are now expected to have the looks of movie stars. I understand it to some extent--when body weight becomes restrictive to stage movement, I think it begins to be a problem. But as a '5"8 size 24 woman, with stature and mobility, I feel unbelievable pressure from my voice teachers, my coaches, my directors, to lose weight. I think I have a problem swallowing this because the field is so fantastically hard to begin with. Ive spent a decade training, studying music theory, studying 4 languages to fluency, studying stage craft, vocal technique. And yet, it is never enough. It gets discouraging, you know?
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    Image of JerkoftheMonth JerkoftheMonth
    08/17/09

    @mezzosop: Wow, I'm really impressed. I have developed a relatively recent interest in opera and have had some casual classical voice training and - WOW - it demands so much athleticism! I hope you don't get too discouraged because all the true opera lovers out there really don't judge singers on their physical appearance but on their talent. (People on Youtube HATE Anna Netrebko because she's so pretty but lack the desired 'musicality'.) So, if it means anything to you, you have my support!
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    Image of nora charles nora charles
    08/17/09

    In reply to Telegraph Writer: Skinny Opera Singers More Believable, Hotter
    I wasn't a theater major, but I know enough to say that anybody that compares opera to television has failed Theatre Arts 101. Live drama, unlike television, is about suspension of disbelief. They're not just asking you to believe that a little guy is in love with a fat lady, or that a black guy could be an army commander in ancient Greece--they're asking you to believe that some plaster and wire and cloth is a tree, that a stage is actually a room, that people regularly pause in the midst of dying of poison for a 15-minute aria. The point is that if they do their job well, it works. Compared to all of that, believing that a little guy is in love with a fat lady doesn't seem all that absurd.
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    Image of nerdycellist nerdycellist
    08/17/09

    @nora charles: I was just going to make that point in a much nastier way. Thanks for being articulate! Yeah, if you can believe that 30 people are all reacting to something by singing the same song in harmony, but that another person might be attracted to a woman you are not attracted to, you should be banned from the theatre.
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    Rooo sez BISH PLZ promoted this comment nerdycellist was starred nerdycellist was unstarred
    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    08/18/09

    @nerdycellist: Fabulously put.
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    08/17/09

    In reply to Telegraph Writer: Skinny Opera Singers More Believable, Hotter
    This depresses me a lot more than it should, and primarily because my silly secret life dream is to sing opera.
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    Image of Tartan_Tart (formerly Scarletbegonia) Tartan_Tart (formerly Scarletbegonia)
    08/17/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: I am an opera diva and a concert violinist in my "parallel lives."
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    Rooo sez BISH PLZ promoted this comment Tartan_Tart (formerly Scarletbegonia) was starred Tartan_Tart (formerly Scarletbegonia) was unstarred
    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    08/18/09

    @scarletbegonia:
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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    08/18/09

    @Rooo sez BISH PLZ: How do you keep from fighting with yourself over stage prominence?
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    Image of MizJenkins MizJenkins
    08/17/09

    In reply to Telegraph Writer: Skinny Opera Singers More Believable, Hotter
    Asshat.

    How does one continue to sing opera after gastric bypass surgery? I would imagine this would have a significant effect on your breathing and thus the support for all those (literally) breath-taking notes. No?
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    Image of Snowbunny Snowbunny
    08/17/09

    In reply to Telegraph Writer: Skinny Opera Singers More Believable, Hotter
    A little off and on topic, but one time in Opera class, we were learning about Brunnhildes and the mountains and fire and all the shit a man had to go through to get her and my friend Samantha looks over at me, incredible concern playing on her face, and goes "who would WANT her?"
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    Image of Pizza!Pizza!Pizza! Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
    08/17/09

    In reply to Telegraph Writer: Skinny Opera Singers More Believable, Hotter
    Oh good lord, can we put away the dicks for even one day and stop acting like no one and nothing's worth watching, engaging in or supporting unless it can be fucked (animal, vegetable or mineral)?
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    Image of Maritsa Maritsa
    08/17/09

    @HeatherNumber1: And how limited is this guy's imagination if he can't suspend his disbelief that someone might want to fuck a "fat" woman? Asshole.
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    Image of nerdycellist nerdycellist
    08/17/09

    In reply to Telegraph Writer: Skinny Opera Singers More Believable, Hotter
    But fat dudes can still sing opera, right?
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    Maritsa promoted this comment nerdycellist was starred nerdycellist was unstarred
    Image of Maritsa Maritsa
    08/17/09

    @nerdycellist: Obviously. And play baseball, and football, and be actors . . .
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    Image of CParis CParis
    08/17/09

    @nerdycellist:
    Yup! And get young, Nobel prize-smart, hot, rich babes, too!
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    Image of ElleL ElleL
    06/25/09

    In reply to R.I.P. Betty Allen
    RIP, Betty. What an amazing gift you left us.


    Wow, celebrity deaths really do happen in three's.

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    Image of save jinger save jinger
    06/25/09

    In reply to R.I.P. Betty Allen
    Rest in peace, Betty. May your voice reach high into the heavens.
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