[HN Gopher] Opera for Beginners
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       Opera for Beginners
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2024-05-01 18:49 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | klelatti wrote:
       | This seems, well, a little selective, being focused exclusively
       | on 19C Italian Opera and Mozart. I think it's entirely possible
       | not to particularly like these works, whilst enjoying operas by
       | other composers.
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       | My starting point in opera was Janacek. The Cunning Little Vixen
       | and Jenufa, for example, are both stunning works, musically and
       | dramatically, and sound entirely different from the operas
       | mentioned in this piece. The recordings by Charles Mackerras are
       | unbeatable.
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       | But if you don't enjoy Janacek then try someone else's work as
       | you never know what you might like!
        
       | djmips wrote:
       | I almost skipped past this because I thought it would be about
       | the browser... This is why I hate the confluence of products that
       | use common words as product names.
        
         | kstrauser wrote:
         | Unlike Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Edge, Brave, Lynx, Mosaic...
        
           | loloquwowndueo wrote:
           | Other than the browser, the fictional plane and the namesake
           | movie, is Firefox all that common?
        
             | kstrauser wrote:
             | It's another name for a red panda.
        
           | djmips wrote:
           | I'm not singling out Opera. Edge is the worst.
        
       | loloquwowndueo wrote:
       | Deep end of the pool - Wagner's Ring Cycle. It's a bit heavy but
       | as someone who enjoys fantasy literature, role-playing games
       | (dungeons and Dragons) and that kind of thing, these operas
       | pulled me right in.
       | 
       | I didn't enjoy Verdi or Puccini al that much though.
        
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