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  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Mozart's overture to The Abduction from the Seraglio:


    Been to Vienna recently, there was a concert that started with it.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    Ludovico wrote: »
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    Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »
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    Bizet: "Danse bohème" (Gypsy Dance) from Carmen

    Love this. So much. Carmen is my first operatic love.

    Carmen is one of my favorite opera's, I bought a 1976 performance by the London Philharmonic Orchestra on CD yesterday conducted by Sir Georg Solti.

    It's such a brilliant opera. A very dramatic score that actually moves the plot forward, complex characters and maybe the catchiest tunes of classical music.

    As a kid I watched a TV recording of it performed - on ice! Bloody brilliant.

    found it:




    Still getting warm watching this.

    Lovely. I need to revisit Carmen. I have the Rosi movie here in DVD. Amazing film.

    On a side note, this review of Amadeus got me in a bad mood: https://www.indiependent.co.uk/amadeus-re-release-review-a-drama-that-does-not-soar/

    This is like complaining that Saving Private Ryan isn't historically accurate. I get it, for some poeple it's dissapointing (for me as well sometimes) if a historic story is taken and they run with it (more recently Guy Richie's 'The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare'). I don't like it either that much, but I think a film should be judged on what it is, rather than what it isn't.
    And I think it is fair to say that 'Amadeus' isn't pretending to tell the truth, it's telling the story through a possible perception. And that's executed very, very well indeed, hence the accolades.
    I saw the film decades ago and sstill remember it as impressive. Just know what you're going to see.
    And tbh, for todays standards, it's an increadably interesting and original storyline.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    The thing is, Amadeus got a lot of things right, even as a work of fiction; Mozart was vulgar, he liked rude humour, he did get angry at the influence of Italian composers in Vienna, he did enjoy playing pool, he did compose The Magic Flute in a gazebo, etc. Oh and Salieri did have a sweet tooth.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    Which makes the story even more interesting as a 'what if' story.
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