Verdi – Libiamo ne’ lieti calici
An evening pause: I have never been a fan of opera, but this piece by Verdi is truly beautiful and fun to watch.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who also notes its opulence.
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But, how can you not be a fan when Opera like this exists.
Wagner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJI_gygXsfs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5gjUcfX188
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2bilTTzO-g
I just wish I could find the whole thing in one post. It was about half an hour long. Bugs was actually supposed to die, and this was going to be the last Bugs Bunny cartoon, according to legend.
Rossini:
The Rabbit err Barber of Seville
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYBce9Gsz7g&list=PLQy2W1uxgW_Laq_DqXXbjENwqoxNTZTxP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY7GK-M9WWI&list=PLRhhn4YtfBWTqzCOShSaCYEbGcZe2aPLo&index=2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
https://gemmadeealexander.wordpress.com/2016/01/20/the-looney-tunes-world-of-marriage-of-figaro/
I had always thought the same! The Figaro Aria with Elmer Fudd and all. Oh well. Mozart’s Figaro is hilarious.
The topic’s formal name is “Opera Buffa” which is “Comic Opera” and as is pointed out in the film “Amadeus” it was NOT socially acceptable at all and in his day performed in Baudy Houses.
My whole education in Opera is founded on those two Bugs Bunny cartoons. I really wish there were links to the entire episodes in one piece. I guess you’d have to buy them or rent them from Warner Bros.
:( They are classics