Age ain’t nothing but a number, and even numbers appear to be relative. My awareness of this concept most acute when I’m writing about music. Like the recent performance of La Cenerentola at Seattle Opera. Read More
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Getting Giddy at Seattle Opera’s Cinderella
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Turandot is Death Metal Opera
Turandot staged at Seattle Opera, 2012
I often harp on the irrelevance of genre distinctions, but even I have to admit that some musical tastes are incongruous; for example, opera and heavy metal. ‘Bel canto,’ after all, is simply the Italian for ‘pretty song,’ and let’s face it, metal includes a lot of ugly, ugly music. Opera is classical, classy, appealing. Heavy metal is brutal, thuggish and off-putting.
And yet… and yet…