At least this was meant to be high farce.
Posted on 05/29/2008 6:08:46 AM PDT by MaestroLC
MILAN, Italy - First it was the film and the book. Now the next stop for Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" is opera.
La Scala officials say the Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli has been commissioned to produce an opera [...] for the 2011 season
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Oh lordy! Please tell me this is satire!
Oh, I must call Ticketmaster right now!
(sarcasm)
Boof!
I hope it is true.
I predict an aria by a tenor polar bear.
Just one more thing to fuel my dislike of opera!
Well, there WAS a Broadway musical called “Urinetown”. Sounds about the same speed as a Gore idea
At least this was meant to be high farce.
Here’s what’s on Amazon to about one of his works (he isn’t well represented in the catalog from what I can see). And, I thought musique concrète went out of fashion 60 or 70 years ago.
The works of Giorgio Battistelli (b. 1953) are often linked to the theater, and even his instrumental works are highly dramatic, with various instruments and elements considered as ‘characters’ in a drama. In 1974 he was a founding member of a leading avant-garde group in Rome and soon made his name as one of the most interesting composers of his generation. For the past 20 years, Experimentum Mundi has been one of the most-performed works of musique concrète, i.e., music made with everyday objects instead of conventional instruments. In this work, 16 everyday tools are lined up on stage along with 16 workmen in aprons, and an actor in evening dress. The actor begins reading from the eighteenth-century Encyclopedia of Diderot and d’Alembert while the workmen make astonishing music with their tools and materials.
Opera Historians Unearth “Scumbaggio,” Lost Verdi Masterpiece
avant-garde = pretends to have talent (as in Yoko Ono)
ROTFLMA
LOL!!!
Larda**.
Look on the bright side. A hundred years from now it can serve as a monument to mindless hysterics jumping on the Political Correctness Bandwagon.
Maybe the Sopranos can open a trash hauling business in Italy. Considering all the garbage in Naples and now at La Scala, it would be perfect.
And then hopefully it will be over
For good.
If I have to see a lousy modern opera I would rather see
Lizza Bordon.
Either Soros has to foot the bill of some opera companies are going to lose a bunch of money.
Will Gore prepare the libretto (as if he actually every wrote a word of anything with his name on it).
Will there be extra intermissions built in for “ice tea” calls of nature?
Will any scenes be set on TN tobbacco farms or zinc mines?
“16 everyday tools are lined up on stage along with 16 workmen in aprons, and an actor in evening dress. The actor begins reading from the eighteenth-century Encyclopedia of Diderot and d’Alembert while the workmen make astonishing music with their tools and materials.”
That’s it! Algore has found his place in a musical version of THE THEATER OF THE ABSURD!
You know, I just have to laugh at this. We have an excellent opportunity here to enjoy an historic episode of mass hysteria. I hope it doesn’t do much damage.
Curious to see if Al Gore is the hero or the villain.
Elmer Fudd as Al Gore would be a good idea.
Of course it will conclude with Algore riding his ever-true polar bear off of an ice floe and into the warm and rising arctic ocean.
Hillarious!! By their own reasoning, will it be performed under water? LOL!!
Tim Curry might be available. "Let's do the Time-warp again..."
By that time Milan will be underwater.
They can import gondoliers from La Fenice.
It will be a comedy. By then the cooling which began about 1999 will be evident and global warming promoters will be all be hiding out.
All these posts are SO funny! I'd post something myself but I'm laughing so hard I've got tears in my eyes!
Freepers are just the bee's knees!
It actually was pretty, but we never played La Scala, just the Log Cabin Sunday School.
Actually a bowed saw makes a really neat sound. Just got to use the bow on the correct edge of the saw blade :-)
It should be a comic opera.
It was pretty, we played a lot of old-timey folk music since that was what we knew. The bride processed to "Wildwood Flower", not perhaps a good choice for a wedding, but nobody knew the words but us!
Opera is suitable for a fat gasbag like Gore.
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