I've watched the show where a black man Michael Luwoye played Hamilton, but unlike Les Miserables or the Phantom of the Opera, I can't remember any song from the show.
Are the operas in question vulgar and inappropriate for children?
If so, then why would anyone broadcast them?
You can’t get more “contemporary” than “hate whitey and throw them in the ovens”.
This is what taxation without representation looks like.
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I’ve heard several “black operas” on my local NPR...as broadcast by the Met.
They suck. Musically, they just plain suck. At least the ones I heard.
The only reason they get play time is because they’re black.
The ONLY reason.
I didn’t look forward Hamilton, despite recommendations from a number of friends.
That said, I was blown away DESPITE there being no
“whistleable” tunes.
The lack of a catchy or memorable melody didn’t take away from a fantastic musical and dramatic production.
I’d compare it to certain operas that have a great cumulative effect even if you don’t remember any “greatest hits.”
Puccini, who wrote many melodies recognizable easily by non-opera fans, also wrote a number of exquisite works without many or even any. La Rodine has a single aria that people might know; La Fanciulla del West has zero but is still perhaps my favorite of his works.
(Yes, I know this will upset people. Reality remains)
I’m humming the US constitution. LOL
If it aint got a jungle beat, it be white, suckas.
"Hamilton" is like Michelle Obama. If the MSM constantly tells us how beautiful, demure and lovely she is, a lot of people will begin to believe it.
They should ask Leontyne Price if she thinks operas are White music.
My two favorite operas when I was about twelve years old were “Carmen” and “Faust”.
Brief Synopses of the plots:
Carmen:
A young corporal Don Jose falls in “lust” with a Gypsy girl named Carmen. He has to arrest her because she stabs a coworker in the cigarette factory (yes, even smoking is involved!).
She seduces him into helping her escape. For this, he spends two months in the brig. Meanwhile, Carmen is running a smuggling ring.
As soon as he gets out of the brig, Don Jose is once again seduced by Carmen to desert the army and join her smuggling ring. He does this because he is so enamored of her.
While on the lam with the gang, Carmen falls in love with a bullfighter and dumps Don Jose. Not only that, but his mother dies in the middle of all this other s$%T.
Jose tries to win Carmen back, but she laughs in his face so he stabs her to death and gives himself up to the authorities.
THE END
Faust:
Aging, disillusioned scholar Faust sells his soul to the devil so he can be young again. He goes out and seduces inncocent Marguerite, whose elder brother is away fighting some stupid war and therefore not home to protect her.
Margerite’s brother comes home from the war, and Faust kills him in a sword fight.
Faust dumps Marguerite when she becomes pregnant, and she KILLS her illegitimate child, which gets her the death penalty.
Satan and Faust team up to break her out of jail, and Marguerite has a vision from God, saving her and taking her up into heaven (she dies).
Satan gloats as he pulls Faust down to hell.
THE END.
The music from both of the operas are among the most breathtakingly beautiful sounds ever produced on Planet Earth. But, I have to admit, the plots are Rated “R”.
I still love those two operas, even though I am a Rock musician.
I didn’t see “Hamilton” but I thought “The Room Where it Happens “ was catchy
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zwfNRzCXsug&pp=ygUZVGhlIHJvb20gd2hlcmUgaXQgaGFwcGVucw%3D%3D
There was a firestorm of outrage against the station official, and her decision was quickly reversed.
I think it was last year that it was pointed out NPR hires less than 200 employees.
You would think with the influence they have, it would be 10,000.