Ben: What the heck did you watch??
On 15 February 2013 10:56, Benjamin Bergman <[email protected]> wrote: > That name looks hungarian, which makes me nervous. When I was in Budapest, > I went to the opera. The story was okay, but it got a bit weird when the > guy in the white suit stripped down, climbed into a bathtub on a balcony, > and started painting himself in blood with a giant paint brush. > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Justin Lacko <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Tonight I'll be showing Bluebeard's Castle[1], a short opera by Bela >> Bartok[2]: >> >> This is a very easy opera to watch because it's only 56 minutes long. >> It's gloomy, dreary, bloody, and has fantastic sets, so maybe it'll appeal >> to some ;) >> >> Quoting from a review[3]: "Duke Bluebeard's Castle, in brief, is the >> psychological drama of Duke Bluebeard who brings his new wife Judit back to >> his castle, where seven doors open into a hallway. Judit demands that they >> be opened, despite the protests by Bluebeard and they contain such things >> as jewels, armours, vast land shapes - all covered with blood, however. >> Behind the Seventh Door the three former undead? wives of Duke Bluebeard >> appear, whom Judit must now follow. >> >> The libretto is based on the medieval Bluebeard folk tale as well as >> influenced by Freudian psychoanalysis. This is not a live operatic >> performance, but rather a film, where we see the opening of the seven doors >> in a relatively straight-forward manner and the singers lip-synchronize to >> a prerecorded sound- track." >> >> Some of Bartok's music was used in the Shining for it's surreal, haunting >> tones. This same kind of uneasy, tense feeling is repeated in Bluebeard's >> Castle, which interestingly enough was the only opera Bartok wrote. For >> those who are not fans of opera (such as myself), this is an exception to >> the genre that is worth being explored. >> >> ~Justin >> >> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard's_Castle >> [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Bart%C3%B3k >> [3]: >> http://mostlyopera.blogspot.ca/2008/07/dvd-soltis-magnificent-bluebeards.html >> >> >> On 10 February 2013 12:37, Ric Lim <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Unfortunatel (or fortunately) their DNA don't survive that long. So no >>> cloning of Dinosaur soon. >>> >>> >>> http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/133802-sorry-you-will-never-ride-see-or-pet-a-cloned-dinosaur >>> >>> But who knows if they find a way in the future to reconstruct their DNA. >>> >>> Also, do you think they are reptiles or warm-blooded social animals? >>> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120628130647.htm >>> Or maybe a little bit of both since there's really no arctic or polar >>> Dino AFAIK. >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Adrian Stoness <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> might be glitching and seeing sent msgs as quotes? >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >>>> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >>>> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >>> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >>> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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