The only opera I ever like was bugs bunny's whats opera doc.  Does it .....?
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Opera requires an educated ear.  However, anyone can have an educated ear.\n\nFirst of all, give up on the concept of LISTENING to opera.  Opera was meant to be seen.  If you have a more sophisticated, experienced taste, so that you can picture what is going on from the music, then you can just listen.\n\nCheck your local PBS station and see what's going to be on.  Start with comedies if you can.  Read the Libretto, the story of the opera.  You can probably look it up online.  Understand who the characters are and what they are doing.  Remember that this stuff was written hundreds of years ago, and the people then had certain cultural knowledge that you don't.  (Kids today don't get Yellow Submarine either, so this isn't about opera.)\n\nYour library might rent operas on tape or DVD.  I really recommend something like La Cenerentola, or Cinderella.  You already know the story (except it involves bracelets, as performers would never show their ankles on stage back then, which is what I mean by cultural).  You will find it easier to relate to.  Then try others.  Don Pasquale is good.  Madame Butterfly is beautiful.  Carmen is fabulous.  \n\nTry it.  What can it hurt?
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Friedrich Nietzche said that music is not like a mathematical skill, but like a language. That is to say, it's not like "clever" people enjoy Opera and "stupid" people enjoy pop. Rather, opera and pop are two different languages of music. Liking pop over opera is a bit like speaking English but not understanding Chinese.\n\nIn other words, it doesn't matter what kind of music you listen to, as long as you enjoy that music with all your soul. Rock on!
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I'd like to hear the theme song to PeeWee's Playhouse sung in opera style.
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Actually, I'll bet your thinking of "O, Fortuna" from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. It's technically not an opera but a choral work. An opera is a story with characters played by singer-actors, while a choral work involves an assembled chorus. Anyway, Orff wrote Carmina Burana in the mid 1930s, and it remains his best known work. It is constantly being performed and recorded by various choral ensembles. At any rate, Hollywood uses it over and over, most famously in the original version of The Omen.
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Un Bel Di Vedremo\n\na Puccini classic
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i seriously think that bugs bunny is bad for children.\n\nyou think i'm crazy right??\n\nwell, think of it this way: elmer fudd shoots bugs in the belly...bugs is shown saying some smart *ss comment, then 5 seconds later, he's okay...then, bugs shoots elmer fudd, and his face gets all black...nobody dies...HELLO!!!!! \n\nelmer fudd is always smoking cigars...(i think that's elmer fudd) which isn't a good thing for kids to see either...\n\ni don't think many shows have too much a negative effect on adolescence because they've already gotten to the age to be able to distinguish right from wrong.
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The introductory music would be under "soundtracks" and so would some of the music during the cartoons.\n\nMuch of the music used during the cartoons was adapted from classical music (in fact, many of the musicians playing at the Warner Brothers sessions were in the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra).  Is that classical music because of its origin or a soundtrack?\n\nWhichever category, a collection on Looney Toons instrumental music on CD would be a collector's dream for fans.
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In the episode "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy," the doctor, played by Robert Picardo, sings "La Donna e Mobile," from the opera Rigoletto.  Several versions are available on iTunes.  I recommend Andrea Bocelli's. :)
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I have not seen this film, but two of my friends have seen it and they liked it very much - these friends are big fans of classical music. So, if you love classical music, probably you will enjoy this film. I read the entire New York Times review and there is no mention of other classical works. I think the film is really just about Beethoven working on his 9th Symphony.\n\nThis is from the New York Times review of Copying Beethoven:\n\nThe presentation of the Ninth is reason alone to see the film. Onscreen is the Kecskemet Symphony Orchestra of Hungary, but what we hear is a 1996 Decca recording of Bernard Haitink conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. Purists may object to this strategy, but Ms. Holland's filmmaking in this scene is so sensitive that only quibblers will notice if the bowing doesn't match the sound. With her cinematographer, Ashley Rowe, and editor, Alex Mackie, she orchestrates bursts of images and metronomic camera pans that become a visual counterpoint to the music's propulsive and flowing tempos, its rushing violins and soaring voices. Every so often the camera focuses on one of Beethoven's hands, the fingertips stirring the air as if rustling the notes. The world falls away, blissfully.
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I found a few links below.\n\nYou could also try to do a search on google.fr using the words "libretto," "libretti," or "paroles" in combination with individual song titles or "Parapluies de Cherbourg."\n\nAnother thing to try is simply to buy or rent the DVD and play the film with French subtitles. Since the entire film is sung, the French subtitles should be the same as the libretto.
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http://in.dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Genres/Classical/Reviews/
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Something about the sound. I think noises sometime mess with our emotions more than words can. The only time I ever cried over something like a book or a movie or a song was one time when I was at the opera and I heard Lenski's Aria (it's a song from one of Tchaikovski's operas) for the first time. And the song is in Russian and I wasn't reading the subtitles so it was certainly just the sound and not the words that made me cry. Well, the acting might have had a lot to do with it. The tenor was a really good emotive actor and really conveyed the characters' emothions to the audience.
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Yes I loved The phantom of the Opera it was so Romantic and sexy I liked how they portrait the phantom mysteriously looking and desirable...I also liked the music lol
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In extreme bad taste unless you just want to jack up the "Opera Bores". I love fine wine and the Opera but both sects ahcve their "bores". Fun to mess with em' on occasion. One time, I didn't swirl my wine and comment on the bouquet. Rather, I didn't like my date so I asked the waited if I could have some Sweet n' Low for my wine.
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Absolutely! I would never have known "The Barber of Seville" or "Der Ring des Nibelungen" if it weren't for Bugs!\n\n"Kill the Wabbit!" is now a classic. Now if I only knew what the real lines were supposed to be. hmmmmmmm
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I do. It's  on the old Bugs Bunny cartoon lineup. There are about 7 little owls, and all the others sing opera or classical, and this little guy wants to sing jazz. Dad kicks him out of the house, and he goes out into the world and wins a talent contest with his jazz singing. Mom an Dad hear him on the radio, and all is AOK again!
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Yeah, they all seem to be about horrible things.  Like "Ring Around The Rosy".  It's about the plague in the medieval times.  Great music!