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Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
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longday, d monlong yyyy - opera opera
Today I gave a speech about opera. Even though it lasted only 8 minutes (and included many sound clips), I managed to completely bore the audience. As the talk progressed, their eyes glazed over more and more. At the end, they had to give me feedback, but I think they were too abashed at their lack of interest to give me a bad review.
Over the weekend I saw two operas, Marriage of Figaro and Madama Butterfly. One was incredibly good, the other was incredibly bad. It's up to you to guess which one is which, but I'll give you a hint. One of these operas featured whiskey, salami, the American anthem, and pseudo-japanese folk songs.
Marriage of Figaro had two excellent singers, the soprano Ruth Ann Swenson as the Countess and the bass-baritone John Relyea as Figaro. The singers in Madama Butterfly were all decent, but nobody stood out as particularly good or bad.
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