Out of all the main forms of music there are opera for me has to rank in the bottom 10%. I don’t like the sound of it and on the rare occasion that I have seen it on TV I don’t like the acting that goes with it. That’s my personal taste. Now Mary can enjoy the yellin’ fat lady and on occasion wishes to see the opera thing in Bejing.For me any thing Dick Cheney could think up couldn’t be as psychologically damaging as going to an opera performance. I just don’t have the level of culture necessary, I guess.
So with that in mind I need help understanding the clip I stumbled across that is part of an opera. I have no idea where this is being performed (because they are singing in opera language) but it is part of an opera from the early 1700’s written by some French dude.(I had to look that up, I didn’t just know it). It was written after some Indian chiefs from Illinois went to France and met the king and is this French guys concept if Indians or something. You can read about it here.
Now this is where my problem comes in. I understand all of the above and can appreciate the fact that people enjoy that kind of stuff. The link below in a professional presentation that I assume people got dressed up and paid money for but I just don’t get it. This is more like if Salvador Dali was somehow able to get inside my head when watching opera and took those brain images and then choreographed this thing. All I can say is people doing the chicken dance in front of the ass end of a giant gold turkey singing opera with corn cob pipes. How much more surrealistic can you get.
IS EVERYONE READY FOR SOME OPERA?
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