NOT just for opera buffs

[AES]

Someone sent me this, and I thought it worth posting here.

The expressions on the kids faces are wonderful, and as the bloke who sent me this said "opera fan or not, if you can't find a bit of joy and laughter in this then you should seek professional medical advice"

Here you are:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/JNgCM7zp3 ... n_US&rel=0

AES

 

[dynax]

LOVE IT, =D> =D> =D>, don't mind opera at all, and i sometimes have it belting out in the car if i'm in the mood (hammer)

 

[AES]

Good, glad you liked it. I try (rpt try!) to sing some opera, but only on an amateur basis. Doesn't sound like those people though, dunno why #-o

AES

 

[Alexam]

Wonderful for the children to hear some opera. It certainly made their day! =D> =D> =D> =D>

 

[MikeK]

Brilliant! Some of the kids looked confused, but some appeared to be in awe.

 

[Robbo3]

Thanks. Brilliant.

 

[finneyb]

For Pepper Mill turners also

Thanks for posting

Brian

 

[RossJarvis]

Haven't got the faintest idea what they were singing about, but yes it was excellent. Great for the kids too.

 

[Duncan A]

Wonderful!
Some of the children looked shocked at the power of the singer's voices - probably the first time they've heard a real singer without electronics.
Duncan

 

[thetyreman]

love it! thanks for posting, some of them look absolutely amazed, some of them hate it, the kids faces are priceless.

 

[Tasky]

if you can't find a bit of joy and laughter in this then you should seek professional medical advice

Hmmm... Know any cheap professional medical advisers?

 

[Phil Pascoe]

if you like opera find Patricia JANEČKOVÁ on Youtube - absolutely amazing for one so young.

 

[AES]

Thanks phil.p. Already "know" her- yet another that makes me feel totally useless!!!

Oh well Tasky, never mind, there has to be at least one, doesn't there? And to answer your question, certainly NOT cheap enough to solve your problem

AES

 

[Tasky]

Oh well Tasky, never mind, there has to be at least one, doesn't there?

Part of me just hates that it's a corporate advertising stunt.

I can appreciate the talent required to achieve this stuff... same as I can recognise that it's no mean feat to completely make up a fast-talking, perfectly accurate complex-rhyming improvised rap on the spot... I just find it grates right against my personal tastes.
I managed to make it all the way through La Traviata once, just so the wife could finally experience her first live opera like she always wanted... she wasn't as impressed as she hoped! :lol:

 

[AES]

Tasky wrote, QUOTE: Part of me just hates that it's a corporate advertising stunt. UNQUOTE:

How do you know that then? How do you know that it isn't - JUST FOR EXAMPLE - a group of just left study/semi-professionals trying a "special" way to get into "the big time" (I believe it's as tough to make it in the professional opera game as it is to make it as a pro-footballer or to get into the pop top 10 - again, just as examples).

Really sorry (genuinely, no sarcasm intended) that you and your good lady didn't enjoy La Traviata as much as you/she hoped. Just like everything else (kippers? woodworking? football?) opera is clearly not to everybodies taste, so you're probably not missing all that much really - I would certainly never presume to say "it's good for you" (or something like that). But just in case you (or your good lady) is tempted to try again, may I humbly suggest that before you go, you try to find out the basic outline of the story being told by the opera. That helps a lot with the enjoyment I find (and if you fancy trying it, trying to sing bits of it will really keep you busy!!!!).

But back to "medical advice" - the bloke who sent me that clip is definitely no opera fan, and as it happens, his missus is seriously ill with cancer and frankly, from all he says, it's all looking quite iffy.

If he can find a bit of "atmosphere" in that little film showing a huge range of expressions on those "innocent" kids faces with what he's got on his mind, (and not being at all interested in opera), then again NO sarcasm, I genuinely think you're missing something too if you don't feel at least a little moved by those kids' reactions.

But like I said, there's always one - and of all the people who've replied so far, you are the only one.

So let's not get too serious about this eh (otherwise we'll have rabid labourite member/s ranting about only serving foreign spaghetti in English working class kids' schools, (whereas they get caviar at Eton you know, it says so in the papers) and mad expatriate Essex-ites from Wales working out how to mix the left-overs into bio-degradable bags without the crocodiles getting there first - they hide under all the hedges in Berkshire you know)!!

Keep smiling mate!

AES

 

[banjerbill]

AES, why do you take it personally when someone views a link you posted and doesn't like it?
You took umberidge when i posted that I did not like opera in another thread, I still don't!
I like American blues, bluegrass and some C and W, a lot of people don't, but this doesn't bother me.
Horses for courses old chap.

Bill

 

[Tasky]

How do you know that then? How do you know that it isn't - JUST FOR EXAMPLE - a group of just left study/semi-professionals trying a "special" way to get into "the big time"

The title of the video is "Sacla Stage a Surprise Opera in a School Lunch Hall".
The video is hosted by the Sacla UK channel on YouTube.
A mere 4 seconds into the vid, there are some jars of Sacla™ pestos displayed prominently in blatant product placement and the Italian food theme is clear...
Further investigation reveals a singing pizzeria and some other staged events, part of the "Sacla Singing Series", with full coverage on their website...
To me, that screams marketing stunt, however amusing or entertaining it may be. 8)

Really sorry (genuinely, no sarcasm intended) that you and your good lady didn't enjoy La Traviata as much as you/she hoped.

More her than me. I knew it'd not be my thing, but I thought she'd have loved it.

may I humbly suggest that before you go, you try to find out the basic outline of the story being told by the opera.

We did. Plus it had subtitles projected.
For me, it's purely the singing style. I hate the warbling style of 'divas' like Mariah Carey for the same reason.

I genuinely think you're missing something too if you don't feel at least a little moved by those kids' reactions.

I'm also not a fan of children in particular, although it was curious to see some of them covering their ears like that!

Nothing serious, though. Just not really 'moved' like I thought I'd be. I'm better with stories of rescued animals and things.

 

[AES]

Bill, if you read what I wrote again, what I was saying was exactly "horses for courses old chap". Just one example copied from my last post,

QUOTE: Really sorry (genuinely, no sarcasm intended) that you and your good lady didn't enjoy La Traviata as much as you/she hoped. Just like everything else (kippers? woodworking? football?) opera is clearly not to everybodies taste, so you're probably not missing all that much really UNQUOTE:

Anyway, IMO, whether or not anyone likes opera or not has little or nothing to do with whether or not they get a certain amount "emotional satisfaction" from watching those kids' faces. As I believe I also made clear in my last post.

The only "umberidge" I may have taken was to Tasky's statement that this was some sort of commercial publicity stunt. Maybe, maybe not, but there are no clues in that film either way.

But anyway, as I also believe was crystal clear in my last post, lets not take all this too seriously, eh?

And as to a post sometime ago when I apparently took you to task for not liking opera, sorry, but I genuinely do not remember the post/thread you're referring to. But I DO try to be open-minded in all respects on here, so I apologise if I failed to do so in that instance.

AES

 

[AES]

@Tasky: Ah, sorry, my post to Bill crossed with yours about that film clip.

And sorry too, for taking you to task for "assuming" that the film was a commercial stunt. You've clearly got sharper eyes than I have! I must admit that I assumed it was a "performers trying to get work" type of stunt and also "assumed" that you were "assuming" it was a commercial - IF you get what I ("assume"!) I mean.

Anyway, lots of people here did enjoy it, it seems, and though I don't have kids myself I did enjoy those faces.

But as I said, lets not get all het up about it, I'm certainly not - as Bill says above, "one man's meat, another man's poison" and all that.

Cheers

AES

 

[Tasky]

Ja, it's all good, fella. I am usually posting in jest anyway.