N.E. Brigand Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 1 minute ago, George Dixon said: Read the translations and you will understand If a corps wants audiences to do homework, that is the corps' prerogative, but if the audience doesn't want to do homework and rejects the corps, that is the audience's prerogative. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocketman Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 If it detracts from the brass line, I'm against it (CROWN) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleran Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 59 minutes ago, N.E. Brigand said: That's interesting. Was the audience provided with librettos? Were they just expected to know what was being sung? (In at least ... how many foreign languages? Italian, German, French, Russian, Czech--does that cover the standard repertoire?) Or did they just not care? Librettos were usually available for purchase at most houses, though many opera go-ers were already familiar enough with the plot and/or dialogue that they didn't bother. All recordings tended to come with complete multi-lingual libretto translations, for instance, so if you read along when listening at home you became familiar enough with the dialogue that you could just sit back and listen when at the theatre, Some opera houses (the English National Opera, for example) would sing translated into the native language, not the original language. Of course, even English is often hard to understand when sung in an opera. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xandandl Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 1 hour ago, Eleran said: They didn't prior to around the mid-80s (mid-90s at the Met)... ###### younger generation ruining it for everyone! (I believe the first house to do it was as early as 1983, in Toronto) Cadets distributed librettos as early as the mid-1970's with the No More War show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Dixon Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 1 hour ago, N.E. Brigand said: If a corps wants audiences to do homework, that is the corps' prerogative, but if the audience doesn't want to do homework and rejects the corps, that is the audience's prerogative. Actually Cadets are getting very nice audience response. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.E. Brigand Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Just now, George Dixon said: Actually Cadets are getting very nice audience response. But is that because fans are doing research? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Dixon Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 4 minutes ago, N.E. Brigand said: But is that because fans are doing research? Could be because they are really good? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.E. Brigand Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Just now, George Dixon said: Could be because they are really good? That would be my interpretation, yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Dixon Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 1 minute ago, N.E. Brigand said: That would be my interpretation, yes. So we agree! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.E. Brigand Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Just now, George Dixon said: So we agree! We do! I was defending the principle that corps shouldn't expect audiences to do research on their shows; I was not claiming that Cadets had done so. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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