Bob has had more than Genug. Also Pizza Question for Opera Lovers
And don't phone. I never want to hear your Sailor-Killing voice again. First you made me jump off the Ludlow Mass. Pike overpass. Then you made me write checks on insufficient funds. Then you made me dress up like a circus clown and sell cigarettes and other tobacco products to hooky-players you knew were under 18 while you sang about Love in fishnet stockings and one of those Madonna things. Then ... oh you know. You know all too well. And that laugh of yours, that fucking cackle each time I flung myself out a high window --
Do you really call the kid Lulu when she gets dramatic?
Trivia Question: What happens just before the curtain goes down for the last time (THANK FUCKING GOD!) on Alban Berg's opera "Lulu." (I have quite a lot of pizza left, but don't collect it here, I'll FedEx it to you. If you know, you want with anchovies or without?)
I don't expect you to abide by any known honor system. Google all you want. See your Sailor-Killing Cackling Future. Hear (if they got the mp3 to click on) how these people sing your Future so abrasively, so atonally, so harshly.
I don't expect you to abide by any known honor system. Google all you want. See your Sailor-Killing Cackling Future. Hear (if they got the mp3 to click on) how these people sing your Future so abrasively, so atonally, so harshly.
That's who you're thinking of when you call her Lulu?
My assistant editor made me swear never to tell anyone this, but her family's nick for her when she went very and often tragically dramatic around the house was Sarah Bernhardt (1st Film Hamlet; also, perhaps, the only Hamlet with a wooden leg);
Das ist nicht ein gut idea fur die kleine female kinder. Only negative effects on der Kinder's developing personality as she becomes the young woman and then starts the dating kommst from at this age calling her Lulu. Later kommst Trouble.
posted by Vleeptron Dude | 22:35
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Lulu is stabbed to death, richtig?
...and NO anchovies, bitte:)
Jesuchristo! U seen that 9-hour piece of 20th Century Reportoire from Hell too? And U listened to all the music?
But alas ... richtig only 1/2 credit.
BY WHOM IS LULU STABBED TO DEATH?
1/2 does not win the pizza.
You didn't have to Google, did you? Tell us more about your Magic Evening at the Opera. Also who warbled Lulu? And who warbled the fat rich old banker with the bad heart condition? And who warbled the paperboy?
I have a confession to make. When I am in a city that is playing "Lulu," I phone the Opera House and ask what time the opera is predicted to end. Then I go out and have my usual Affengesselschaft (Monkey Business) in town.
Five minutes before das Ende, I walk up the alley and wait for the next patron or patrons to push open the Emergency Fire Exit, and I sneak in. I love to watch the last five minutes. Then I go back to Liedseplein or Tourist Fun Plaza.
CORRECTION:
Above, I referred to this opera as
20th Century Reportoire from Hell
I meant to say:
20th Century Mitteleuropean Reportoire from Hell
In the United States or Canada, we have nothing like Lulu, Praise the Lord!
But we have McTeague, the Musical! (Also rarely performed, for mysterious reasons no one is quite sure of.)
http://www.operaamerica.org/encore/mcteague.htm
I gotta go downtown now for maybe an hour. I am wearing my
URINE TESTING
KEEPING AMERICA CLEAN
KEEPING AMERICA SAFE
KEEPING AMERICA HONEST
t-shirt (I made it myself).
New Answers will resume inspection in about an hour.
Yes indeed, i saw it once a long, long time ago with my Dad. At Lisbon's really nice Opera House called São Carlos.
http://www.saocarlos.pt/
(Jack the Ripper killed the gal) ;)
wow and i could even check on the site when i saw/heard LULU
1971 - Estreia da ópera Lulu de Alban Berg.
Long time....
Who sang Lulu for you?
You seem to have found it a memorable evening. I found it a memorable 3 evenings when my public (independent, non-commercial) television network broadcast it -- I could not watch the whole thing thru in just one sitting, I had to turn it off a couple of times.
Teresa Stratas -- to me, there is only one Lulu.
You win the Pizza, no anchovies. Lulu's Last Blind Date (a date in which you have never met your date before he rings your doorbell) was Jack the Ripper.
Your father sounds like a wonderful, cultured man, but why was he taking his young daughter to see THIS opera? Was this a Cautionary Tale for his little Cunegonde? As you were about to become an independent young adult, was he saying: "Watch what THIS cheap Macau firecracker does ... and look what happens to her at das Ende. As you go thru life, always remember Alben Berg's 'Lulu.' my little Cunegonde."
I don't know what message my public television station wanted to give me, but *I* have certainly always remembered it. (And then I bought the audio cassette tapes.)
Does "Lulu" come back to Lisboa very often?
No. LULU only came back once more. it is an expensive opera to stage, I guess. The São Carlos is going thru a very bad financial crisis, in fact 2 operas were cancelled this year :«Entführung» and another I can't remember.
Pity...
i think it was teresa Stratas.
BTW Wozzek is the other opera to have been cancelled this season.
Of all the pathetic addictions, the opera addict ...
People are curious about my love of and weird trips to see operas.
"Did you ever have a real big loud horrible ugly never-ending fight with your girlfriend? Terrible pain and misery for days?" I ask.
"Well, we all get some of that. There's no escaping it. Everyone has to get some of that kind of heartache. And then sometimes, innocent young people get terrible diseases, and die so young, and make everyone so horribly sad.
"But what if you could have the same big ugly fight, the same heartache, the same ugly, painful, fatal disease -- but with DIGNITY! You would be dignified, she would be dignified. 400 people would watch your nasty fight, and hear you fighting -- and for hours, all 400 people would think your ugly fight was BEAUTIFUL, the most BEAUTIFUL thing they had ever seen.
"And if you had to die young, you could die SO BEAUTIFULLY! The only annoyance would be the 400 people weeping and sobbing to see so beautiful a young woman dying so beautifully.
"And the way you SING your ugly fight, and then, during breaks in the fighting, you would sing solos of your HEARTACHE -- the most BEAUTIFUL MUSIC, and you and your girlfriend would have the most BEAUTIFUL VOICES.
"Your Death Song -- oh, nothing ever was so beautiful.
"That's all opera is. The illusion that this nasty life could, might let you live it with a little dignity, and you could sing it, and your voice would be beautiful. Without opera, life is nothing but banana peels and cars splashing mud on your new pants, and people laughing at you. And you can't even sing it."
THEY CANCELLED WOZZEK????????
Now I'm REALLY (sincerely) ANGRY. Wozzek is ... GREAT! Not good, not entertaining. It's GREAT! Read the history of Wozzek, the original roman. It shocked Europe, it's my favorite kind of literature, the literature that causes fistfights in libraries and the entry hall of the opera house, men punching each other and hitting each other with their canes over a book, an idea -- a fistight over a song!
THEY CANCELLED WOZZEK!!!
Here's a famous Fistfight Opera, Berlin, 1920s, Brecht:
"Which is worse? Robbing a bank or owning a bank?"
That bumper sticker is still spoken by Berliners today, it's still stuck in the Berlin World View today. Everybody knows it. Every scandal, dozens of times a day, Berliners ask each other on the street: "Which is worse, robbing a bank or owning a bank?" I'm pretty sure that was from Happy End, music, of course, by Kurt Weill. Brecht set the ceiling forever on the maximum amount of public respect a banker could ever expect in Berlin.
The actor said that on the stage at the first performance, and a big loud fight erupted between the Expensive Seats and the Cheap Seats. Big row, big dustup, maybe the police had to be called it.
see? sniff
27. 31. Maio 2. 5. Junho 2005 20:00h
4. Junho 16:00h
- cancelado - ( no need to translate, right? ;)
Teatro Nacional de São Carlos
WOZZECK
Alban Berg
Ópera em três actos. Libreto do compositor,
segundo a peça Woyzeck de Georg Brüchner.
Estreia absoluta: Berlim, 1925.
Direcção musical
Donato Renzetti
Encenação e cenografia
Stéphane Braunschweig
Figurinos e concepção de imagens vídeo
Thibault Vancraenenbroeck
Intérpretes
Wozzeck
Dietrich Henschel
Marie
Michele Breedt
Tambour-Major
Christopher Ventris
Andres
Christer Bladin
O Capitão
a anunciar
O Médico
Johann Werner Prein
Primeiro Operário
a anunciar
Segundo Opérario
Luís Rodrigues
Um Idiota
a anunciar
Margret
a anunciar
Filho de Marie
a anunciar
Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa
Coro do Teatro Nacional de São Carlos
Produção (cenário, figurinos e adereços)
Opéra de Lyon
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
Merda. Dietrich Henschel had the opera role of a lifetime. And now he will collect a few weeks of Unemployment Compensation. And then ...
Don't let *J* see that long list of unemployed thespians. Too sad, depressing.
I don't know what Alben thought he was doing at the time, but whatever it was, he died and ended up with Opera immortality (even if his operas are rarely performed, and when announced, soon cancelled). There is not an Opera Lover on Earth or Vleeptron who does not know the name of Alben.
This cancellation smells like Weak Advance Ticket Sales to me. With Lulu or with Wozzek, you don't hear this much:
"Oh honey, look! Lulu's coming to the Opera House! And Wozzek too! They're my favoritest of all operas! Let's buy tickets today and avoid the crowds!"
This sucks for Lisboa, this sucks for Opera. Alben has been dead a long time, but this sucks for him, too. I wonder what he was like to be married to? From his piano room, was he always yelling to his wife: "I'm okay, honey! No, I didn't hurt myself. I'm fine. The cat's okay, too. No, I haven't been drinking a lot of alcohol. It's just this new music I'm writing ..."
I guess Lulu is an expensive opera to stage because of all the dead destroyed males of all ages, frequently suicides. Some dead women too I think I remember. Did the Countess post-decease Lulu? I forget. But Berg was certainly the inventor of Realism in opera, and if Sr. Director stages it in the spirit of the Composer -- dead singers are not cheap and so many to be replaced and trained quickly each night of the show.
I think it is basically the São Carlos orchestra that want a rise in salary, so they went on strike to protest ( I am sorry if this is NOt exactly what is happening) maybe a São Carlos orchestra member will eventually come across this blog and put things straight for us. Who knows?
Bob, how are you doing with the assignment I gave you?
busy ... busy ... wait ... wait ...
pls do all possible to encourage São Carlos orchestra member to come across VLEEPTRON and put things straight for us. Who knows?
At orchestra lady or man's earliest convenience. or earliest inconvenience. why the cancelado of WOZZEK? the real poop. the inside skinny. VIN needs this. VIN will pay pizza. Soon WOZZEK musicians will run out of food, pizza is food. Candor a must.
if lady, pls advise: Wien Philharmonic now will consider female musicians.
The Vleeptron Symphonia & Unisex Hair Salon Quartet has had female musicians since 2323232 AV. They blow every bit as loud as the men. Junk Science Council has tested and verified. Last 10 Wien Maestri are dumb asshats.
Great Idea for Organized Labor Progress: Professional Opera Musicians going on big public strike. City braces for rough ordeal of life without Professional Opera Musicians.
Who's idea was the strike? The reed section? Picolo guy? English horn?
Or was it the harpist? She always looked like labor union trouble to me.
Fancy-schmanzy black shmata during performances of Wozzec. But I'll bet at home, in the flat, she doesn't even wear a bra. I could tell from 20R.
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