Doctor Atomic

[cionaudha]

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[grace_poppy]

Wow, that sounds absolutely wonderful. I've never listened to this opera before, but I enjoyed that aria. I love 20th century opera in English (though most of what I love best is from the earlier part of the century). I'm so glad you enjoyed it! It sounds perfect for you. :D Wish I'd been there.

[cionaudha]

I wish you'd been there too, so you could have seen him perform the aria. It was at the end of the first act, and it left the audience wonderfully sucker-punched. It had been all "yay science" till then.

Perfect for me? Yeah, it was pretty much niche-marketed directly to me. :-D I'm such a nerd.

[cionaudha]

Oh my God Sweetie, it was magnificent... the whole thing.

People who know anything about opera may disagree, but it really moved my world. I'm still surfing that high.

[distress_bacon]

Oooooh, that sounds *brilliant*! I, too, am impressed! :D

[cionaudha]

SO. EFFIN'. GEEKED.

Dude: it opened with an entire song about pressures on a perfect sphere and "matter can be neither created nor destroyed but only altered in form, energy can be neither created nor destroyed but only altered in form." Physics! Chemistry! Time!

And then it gets all down in the spiritual dirt of moral agony.

How can you lose?

Gerald Finley is my new opera boyfriend. (An entirely new boyfriend category.)

[distress_bacon]

♥_♥

(in other news the Twilight fandom just crossed the line from *crazy* to *scary*)

Edit: hurr, I html good

[cionaudha]

Completely! Batshit! Insane!

Which is an insult to guano, really.

[my_daroga]

That looks amazing. That first image is so arresting, and the staging looks fantastic. It also sounds like it's interesting. I'm glad you got this look at it, and reported back! I always hear about such interesting things from you.

[cionaudha]

Thanks for your kind words. :-)

I sincerely hope the Met is making a DVD of this performance, so everyone can see it. It asks some big moral and cultural questions, and asks them in an enchanting way.

It's even rehabilitated John Donne for me. I never really got him, but now that I've been given a powerful emotional context for that one sonnet, I'm anxious to re-examine his work.

(And re-read the Mahabharata...)

*pinches Orson's cheeks*

[athanata]

wow - that sounds awesome!

[cionaudha]

Oh, man. It was beyond words. Here I've been wasting my time on Mozart like a chump: this completely changed opera for me.