Woe is Me! I Am All Black and Roasted!
The above line was the Highlight of the Opera we went to see on Saturday. Trey, like half of the audience including myself, thought that was even funnier than the rubber chicken in Pagliacci, and we howled with laughter.
If you are wondering why there would be such a line in an opera, it is from "Carmina Burana" which is not really an opera, but whatever. This was supposed to be spoken by a swan, so there was some sort of light projection on the stage, with swan cut outs. This swan's killing was represented on the light projection, but in an ?unfortunately? comic way- I put question marks around the unfortunately because if the audience took it as seriously as it was meant to be taken, it would have been much too heavy. So instead, it was ludicrous. The swan in question was killed, roasted and eaten, and then somehow managed to sing about it. I wonder if the chicken that I cooked yesterday would have sung about being cooked. I wonder what sort of drugs one has to take to hear your food singing while it is being cooked; that sounds like the sort of thing that would make one really bonkers. Or, conversely, the sort of thing that happens to the really bonkers. I now have some idea of what Trey is going to be like when he gets to be really old, with, as he puts it, Old Timer's disease.
At any rate, we had decent seats, which is not always the case at the damn Civic Center; next year the opera is moving to somewhere in Cobb County. If the seats are a decent price, I think I'll buy season tickets again. Wherever they're moving to has to be better than the Civic Center.
The first opera was Pagliacci, which is apparently too short to be all by itself, so that was why Carmina Burana was also featured. I thought the female lead in Pagliacci was miscast; she didn't seem vixenish enough and was more timid and afraid than really the Bad Woman she should have been. Other than that it was really good.
O and something else happened this weekend, and because the people who were involved are among the three people who read this, I am only going to touch lightly on it. But I will say that we love you, support you, and God does too. No problem is bigger than Jesus. If people who are infinitely silly can make it, surely two well respected, intelligent, hard working, committed people can make it.
If you are wondering why there would be such a line in an opera, it is from "Carmina Burana" which is not really an opera, but whatever. This was supposed to be spoken by a swan, so there was some sort of light projection on the stage, with swan cut outs. This swan's killing was represented on the light projection, but in an ?unfortunately? comic way- I put question marks around the unfortunately because if the audience took it as seriously as it was meant to be taken, it would have been much too heavy. So instead, it was ludicrous. The swan in question was killed, roasted and eaten, and then somehow managed to sing about it. I wonder if the chicken that I cooked yesterday would have sung about being cooked. I wonder what sort of drugs one has to take to hear your food singing while it is being cooked; that sounds like the sort of thing that would make one really bonkers. Or, conversely, the sort of thing that happens to the really bonkers. I now have some idea of what Trey is going to be like when he gets to be really old, with, as he puts it, Old Timer's disease.
At any rate, we had decent seats, which is not always the case at the damn Civic Center; next year the opera is moving to somewhere in Cobb County. If the seats are a decent price, I think I'll buy season tickets again. Wherever they're moving to has to be better than the Civic Center.
The first opera was Pagliacci, which is apparently too short to be all by itself, so that was why Carmina Burana was also featured. I thought the female lead in Pagliacci was miscast; she didn't seem vixenish enough and was more timid and afraid than really the Bad Woman she should have been. Other than that it was really good.
O and something else happened this weekend, and because the people who were involved are among the three people who read this, I am only going to touch lightly on it. But I will say that we love you, support you, and God does too. No problem is bigger than Jesus. If people who are infinitely silly can make it, surely two well respected, intelligent, hard working, committed people can make it.
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