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?
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