Saw on the breakfast programme this morning that a new opera about Anna Nicole thingy had sold out at Covent Garden. Its writen by the guys who did Gerry Springer the Opera and is about the busty blonde gold digger who married a man 66 years older then died of a drug overdose. Can't remember if he outlived her but there has to be a some good picking somewhere. Just can't think of an angle today..or this week!
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Anna Nicole the opera
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beau-jolly
offlineMemberPosted 2 years ago # -
Oxbridge
offlineMemberNope, he died at 89 - presumably with a very broad smile on his face - leaving a grieving and very wealthy widow. His children contested the will and it was dragging on through the courts when she died too.
Weirdness alert: I was editing this presumably at exactly the same second as Zadok made his comment above, at which point my original, including a question as to whether Stewart Lee was involved, dropped below his, looking a bit redundant in the process. Dontcha just love technology?
Posted 2 years ago # -
beau-jolly
offlineMemberThanks Zadoc...in my defence; I was in bed and only half way through my 2nd coffee so not really concentrating. Jerry Springer was mentioned..should have remembered Stewart Lee.
Can't see the point of doing it all operatic though. Even in English I can't understand the words. The clip showed Anna Nicole in a big fat Gypsy wedding dress shouting about Jimmy Choux(?). Apparnetly all she wanted was a nice home for her kid...oh, and some fancy footwear...and maybe a breast augmentation or two.
Thanks also Ox, I guess its a modern tragedy. If Shakespear had come up with the tale we would have had to read it at school.Posted 2 years ago # -
Zadok the second
offlineMemberOpera-folks (or at least the ACE-funded types) are always on the lookout for ways to make their hobby 'relevant' to today. Mad sets or costumes, lots of swearing, nudity... anything to bring the format kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Little realising that what your average, low-ish brow punter wants is just the tunes, preferably from the operas they know - eg Madame Butterfly / Carmen spectaculars, done all traditional-like.
I have long held the view that today's audiences are usually lying to themselves if they think that the form engenders drama - it doesn't, the suspension of disbelief is just too great.
I'm sure there's a fortune to be made from putting on evenings of 'Best Of' opera scenes.
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Des Custard
offlineMemberA pedant writes: it's either Madama Butterfly or Madam Butterfly. Unless you're putting it on in Paris, I suppose.
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beau-jolly
offlineMemberYou are right z the 2. Why can't they just talk the lines between the few good tunes. 90% of it you wouldn't be humming on the bus home, would you?
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beau-jolly
offlineMemberAs someone said once of Malcolm Muggerage, "If his face looks like that, just imagine what his scrotum looks like"
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beau-jolly
offlineMemberStill waiting for Oprah the Opera
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