I’ve been threatening for a while now…and I’m finally making good on it, thanks in very large part to my friend @zeichner, who knows absolutely more about more music than anyone I know.
Thank you, @zeichner! =)
After clearly not following the fairly simple directions on my iTunes gift certificate, I finally pulled myself together and bought one primer of operatic music: “Opera Women,” which seems to be a good overview of exactly what the album title promises (it’s labeled as an iTunes Essential) and also “My Puccini” by Angela Gheorghiu. I looked for the Flicka (Fredericka von Stade) album @zeichner recommended, but couldn’t find it on iTunes, so I’ll have to search that out using other avenues.
I’ve been to the opera, believe it or not. Moshing is simply not encouraged, but the leather biker jacket and combat boots got some admiring looks thrown my way. The (wo) gave me two tickets last year for “Samson and Delilah” for which she had seats and couldn’t attend. Her grandmother was an opera singer, although I couldn’t tell you now what her name was. Hell, I couldn’t even have told you five minutes after I’d been told.
And of course, this grand flirtation I’ve had going on with the music of Sarah Brightman for a few years now has only intensified it, although I’m honestly clueless enough about opera to even know if she’s ever performed any proper operas. All I do know – and this has nothing to do with opera, says the clueless one – is that her rendtions of “Ave Maria” and “Pie Jesu” are perfect. So is “Fleurs Du Mal” and “Chase the Morning.”
But because it was Sarah Brightman who started me on this path, and despite my ignorance of the larger genre, I’m putting a picture of her with this post.
Did I mention she’s goregous, too? Oh, my…is it getting hot in here or what?
