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SaltyJon 
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Lol sports.
Brian, I just got back from "The House of 1000 Beers," a bar ~20 minutes or so from my house. The name is not a lie, they have close to 1100 varieties of beers in the place. I had 0, apart from tastings of some others' beers, awwwww yeah.
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TheGazzardian
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Posted: January 07 2012 at 23:51 |
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I find it crazy how each major composer has their own cataloguing system that some musicologist in the 20th century came up with. It's a bit confusing that bach gets BWV and Mozart gets KVM and and Vivaldi gets RV and so on. I guess it makes sense for specifying which catalogue is being used, but wouldn't having a single abbreviation be easier?
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The Neck Romancer
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Posted: January 07 2012 at 23:59 |
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The Truth
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Posted: January 08 2012 at 00:20 |
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The Castle is pretty good too, Marco, you might try it as well.
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TheGazzardian
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Posted: January 08 2012 at 00:38 |
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I know, that would make things easier. What's even crazier are compositions with an opus numbe and a catalogue number.
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Vompatti
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Posted: January 08 2012 at 04:46 |
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If Carmen is a good opera, I don't like opera.
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Posted: January 08 2012 at 05:11 |
My internet has failed me. I was watching a film and for the last 20 minutes it decided to not stream 
I don't tend to like the male Tenors in Operas. I find that sound annoying. I like the female singers though. I in fact heard one rehearsing part of The Marriage of Figaro with the orchestra on a tour of the Sydney opera house in October and that was amazing k.
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irrelevant
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Posted: January 08 2012 at 05:23 |
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Yeah pretty much all the opera I've heard I don't like.
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Ricochet
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Posted: January 08 2012 at 05:54 |
Vompatti wrote:
If Carmen is a good opera, I don't like opera.
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I always mistake Aida for Carmen. And viceversa.
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Ricochet
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Posted: January 08 2012 at 05:57 |
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# of operas I have listened to: 6
Zauberflote, Madama Butterfly, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersingers von Nurnberg, Lulu, Saint Francois d'Assise
Of those, 2 seen live, 2 seen on TV, the Wagners only heard on CD or at the radio.
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Posted: January 08 2012 at 06:07 |
I loved going to the opera and seeing the live performances, however I would never watch it on tv or willingly listen to a CD.  I've seen The Barber of Seville, Rigoletto, La Traviata and Un Ballo in Maschera. I think I should go to more when I get some extra kronor.
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Ricochet
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Posted: January 08 2012 at 06:12 |
Well, I'd probably go see myself a Wagner performance, should we ever manage one in the next century.  Bucharest usually stages Lohengrin, but only that, and I somehow don't care about it and wouldn't travel that much to see it.
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Lizzy
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Posted: January 08 2012 at 06:18 |
Maybe these guys here perform some Wagner operas. I did get a programme for 2012 when I went to see Ian, but I have no idea what I've done with it.  Anyway, the ones I've seen were in Cluj. (uhm... the sopranos and tenors in particular were fairly weak, I though )
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Ricochet
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Posted: January 08 2012 at 06:21 |
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I'd book a ticket for Bayreuth in 2013, being the Wagner bicentennial, but that's probably impossible.
A former colleague of mine studies canto at Cluj (and even works at the Opera, I believe). I met with her on the plane in my holiday - she was going to Paris. I probably should be decent and write her to ask how her trip was.
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irrelevant
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Posted: January 08 2012 at 06:29 |
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I forgot what I was going to do.
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Lizzy
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Posted: January 08 2012 at 06:33 |
Well, that would be nice, especially if you care. I usually don't care and thus, I do not ask. :D Awww, going to the opera actually brings back memories. I used to buy tickets for the balcony, coz those were the cheapest, obviously, but I always ended up in one of those 'loje' above the orchestra (I thought those were the balconies k ), I remember thinking the guy playing the double bass looked like a chubby Brian May.
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Ricochet
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Posted: January 08 2012 at 06:33 |
TheGazzardian wrote:
Polo wrote:
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I know, that would make things easier. What's even crazier are compositions with an opus numbe and a catalogue number. |
Actually, I don't think any ouvres that are catalogued (Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Bartok, etc) have opus numbers as well. Liszt might be an exception here, because everybody catalogued him however he pleased.
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Posted: January 08 2012 at 06:39 |
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Oh me too, But unfortunately I remembered: write THREE (3) essays till tomorrow! 
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Posted: January 08 2012 at 06:40 |
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We (me and a friend) got late tickets for Madama Butterfly, thus seated very high up at first, missing almost a quarter of a stage because of reflectors. After the first act, we moved somewhere more comfortable, where we saw that nobody had come. But after the second act, a supervising (I don't know how to call her) lady came to us and shouted "These are not your seats! You don't belong here! These cost differently! Never do this ever again!" and we put our "What is your goddamn problem" faces on.
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irrelevant
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Posted: January 08 2012 at 06:43 |
Lizzy wrote:
irrelevant wrote:
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Oh me too, But unfortunately I remembered: write THREE (3) essays till tomorrow!
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