Opera and classical music!

Skip navigation

CEMB → Forum → Life, The Universe & Everything → The Muses → Opera and classical music!

Welcome

Welcome to CEMB forum.
Please login or register. Did you miss your activation email?

Donations

Help keep the Forum going!
Click on Kitty to donate:

Kitty is lost

Recent Posts

All recent posts

اضواء على الطريق ....... ...

February 15, 2025, 04:00 PM

New Britain

February 14, 2025, 11:13 AM

Random Islamic History Po...

February 14, 2025, 08:00 AM

Qur'anic studies today

February 13, 2025, 10:07 PM

Muslim grooming gangs sti...

February 13, 2025, 08:20 PM

German nationalist party ...

February 13, 2025, 01:15 PM

Lights on the way

February 13, 2025, 01:08 PM

Russia invades Ukraine

February 13, 2025, 11:01 AM

Islam and Science Fiction

February 11, 2025, 11:57 PM

Do humans have needed kno...

February 06, 2025, 03:13 PM

Gaza assault

February 05, 2025, 10:04 AM

AMRIKAAA Land of Free .....

February 03, 2025, 09:25 AM

All recent posts

Theme Changer

Site default theme Optional dark theme Basic wap2 interface

Topic: Opera and classical music!

(Read 8915 times)

12 Next page « Previous thread | Next thread »
- Al-Ma`arri
- I Worship Nietzsches Moustache
- Ex-Muslim
- offline
Opera and classical music!
OP - April 30, 2011, 02:24 AM

This thread is meant to share good classical pieces and opera!

I will start with the aria from my favorite opera (Carmen) sung by Maria Callas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fZRssq7UlM

Some Shostakovich (grab someone and DANCE!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmCnQDUSO4I&feature=related

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

- John Keats
- arX
- Ex-Muslim
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #1 - April 30, 2011, 11:56 AM

Shostakovich is a don. The turn of 20th century is my favourite era in classical music.

Carl Orff - Carmina Burana ~ O Fortuna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD3VsesSBsw

Against the ruin of the world, there
is only one defense: the creative act.

-- Kenneth Rexroth
- David
- Pub Regular
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #2 - April 30, 2011, 12:10 PM

Purcell, Dido's Lament, Janet Baker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_50zj7J50U

Jeff Buckley and Alison Moyet had a crack at it too... with predictably disastrous results.
- Al-Ma`arri
- I Worship Nietzsches Moustache
- Ex-Muslim
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #3 - May 01, 2011, 03:06 PM

Carmina Burana! I LOVE THAT!

Keep on posting folks! Sharing is caring.

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

- John Keats
- mchawking
- Pub Regular
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #4 - May 01, 2011, 03:11 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFjjGud4QLY post modern, actually
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrnRL5i7CZ0 and baroque

not sure if I can post that

"I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure,
Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests."
[Kepler's epitaph]
- Grouchy
- Ex-Muslim
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #5 - May 01, 2011, 03:17 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8qg_0P9L6c&feature=player_detailpage

Absolutely amazing.

Arvo Pärt at his best.

Quote from: yeezevee on May 03, 2011, 09:40 AM
Grouchy what is the good reason for picking up an innocent girl as Osama bin Laden?
- arX
- Ex-Muslim
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #6 - May 01, 2011, 03:51 PM

I've come to have more appreciation for opera in the past couple of years ever since I attended a live performance. I've found that it's significantly more enjoyable live, but I can definitely chill at home with some Puccini or Verdi.

Bidú Sayão - O mio babbino caro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNHf26uNfok

Against the ruin of the world, there
is only one defense: the creative act.

-- Kenneth Rexroth
- Mount A Bison
- Ex-Muslim
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #7 - May 01, 2011, 06:35 PM

A matchless performance by the beauty in black. Why do all the pretty ankles bear the name Maria? It's like meeting an Aussie called Bruce. Never had much time for opera. Smacked too much of Italian bombast. Till I saw the Magic Flute by the Austrian chap. I defy you to beat this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2ODfuMMyss
- osmanthus
- Cave dwelling
- Pub Regular
- Fingerer of piglets
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #8 - May 01, 2011, 06:45 PM

Quote from: Al-Ma`arri on April 30, 2011, 02:24 AM
This thread is meant to share good classical pieces and opera!

I like the distinction: good classical pieces......................and opera.

Devious, treacherous, murderous, neanderthal, sub-human of the West.
- David
- Pub Regular
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #9 - May 01, 2011, 06:56 PM

Quote from: Mount A Bison on May 01, 2011, 06:35 PM
I defy you to beat this:

I beat it in the third post of the thread.

Unless of course you value technique and melodrama over beauty and emotion.
- toor
- Administrator
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #10 - May 01, 2011, 07:04 PM

I know little of Strauss, but I've just been introduced to Jessye Norman:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se0HPsJex04

Before it gets too late, you will find escape.
- Ishina
- Militant Atheist
- Ex-Muslim
- No Fate But What We Make
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #11 - May 01, 2011, 07:36 PM

The only opera I know, and also the best piece that will ever be in this thread:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOfC9LfR3PI

Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
- David
- Pub Regular
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #12 - May 01, 2011, 07:40 PM

Quote from: Ishina on May 01, 2011, 07:36 PM
the best piece that will ever be in this thread

Brings tears to the eyes.
- Mowser
- God-defying Heathen
- Ex-Muslim
- I reject your reality and substitute my own
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #13 - May 02, 2011, 09:54 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwDf2DCX_1A

Cinema Paradiso Love Theme. It's my favourite instrumental track of all time. Heartbreaking and beautiful, felt goosebumps and shed a tear the first time I heard it.
- Paloma
- Pub Regular
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #14 - May 02, 2011, 02:28 PM

La ci darem la mano from Mozart´s Don Giovanni :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqPcb1nKZYg

Don Juan trying to seduce a young maiden and he seems to be successful.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man?s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

Khaled Hosseini - A thousand splendid suns.
- Paloma
- Pub Regular
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #15 - May 02, 2011, 02:53 PM

Puccini, Madame Butterfly, Un Bel Di Vedremo, Maria Callas :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4dOpvVMfqg

Like a compass needle that points north, a man?s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

Khaled Hosseini - A thousand splendid suns.
- arX
- Ex-Muslim
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #16 - May 02, 2011, 08:53 PM

1904 recording of Enrico Caruso on an aria from Bizet's The Pearl Fishers.

Nadir's Aria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keR8F5RQKT4

Against the ruin of the world, there
is only one defense: the creative act.

-- Kenneth Rexroth
- arX
- Ex-Muslim
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #17 - May 03, 2011, 06:20 AM

Verdi - Requiem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsZEv7kAllo

Worth every 90 minute.

Against the ruin of the world, there
is only one defense: the creative act.

-- Kenneth Rexroth
- King Koopa
- Ex-Muslim
- Your Mom's Favorite Lover
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #18 - May 05, 2011, 10:17 PM

John Adams's Nixon in China

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tv3hrZmcEk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_in_China_%28opera%29
- Al-Ma`arri
- I Worship Nietzsches Moustache
- Ex-Muslim
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #19 - May 08, 2011, 07:43 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J2S4enmV4I

Explosive Russian!

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

- John Keats
- Al-Ma`arri
- I Worship Nietzsches Moustache
- Ex-Muslim
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #20 - May 08, 2011, 07:45 PM

Leopold Mozart (the father of Wolfgang.A.Mozart):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDnrL46wY44

And some people believe music should be forbidden (haram). To hell with that!

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

- John Keats
- Paloma
- Pub Regular
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #21 - May 08, 2011, 08:32 PM

Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, Una furtiva lagrima, Juan Diego Florez

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q9wFD9E3l0

Like a compass needle that points north, a man?s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

Khaled Hosseini - A thousand splendid suns.
- McGoogles
- Boss Arse Kutti
- Ex-Muslim
- alien emoji
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #22 - May 09, 2011, 07:55 PM

*bump*
Neo-classical counts right? Because I'm slowly falling in love with the one and only ZOE MOTHERFUCKING KEATING, a cellist who does some awesome live shows using a foot controlled laptop and recording equipment. ^_^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYrcXX4nWOA
Escape Artist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTU-6oigFg0
Lost
- King Koopa
- Ex-Muslim
- Your Mom's Favorite Lover
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #23 - May 14, 2011, 10:34 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6NopU9K_8M

Does this belong here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSY1ya8GdYI&feature=related
- Al-Ma`arri
- I Worship Nietzsches Moustache
- Ex-Muslim
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #24 - May 16, 2011, 10:35 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QB7ugJnHgs

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

- John Keats
- Hikaru
- Ex-Muslim
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #25 - May 17, 2011, 04:52 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qmeoBnrM0k&feature=related

Nella Fantasia by Chloe Agnew

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEf5JqUrSvk&feature=related

Vivaldis Rain by Chloe Agnew

井の中の蛙大海を知らず。
(I no naka no kawazu taikai wo shirazu)
A frog in a well does not know the great sea.
- arX
- Ex-Muslim
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #26 - May 17, 2011, 05:39 AM

Quote from: Al-Ma`arri on May 16, 2011, 10:35 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QB7ugJnHgs

Gorgeous.

@1:12 ... *swoons*.

Against the ruin of the world, there
is only one defense: the creative act.

-- Kenneth Rexroth
- King Koopa
- Ex-Muslim
- Your Mom's Favorite Lover
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #27 - May 23, 2011, 09:26 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdtLuyWuPDs
- mchawking
- Pub Regular
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #28 - May 24, 2011, 06:34 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4U7wNZu-CU

"I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure,
Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests."
[Kepler's epitaph]
- McGoogles
- Boss Arse Kutti
- Ex-Muslim
- alien emoji
- offline
Re: Opera and classical music!
Reply #29 - May 24, 2011, 08:32 PM

János vs. Wonderland - Tristan Allen & Amanda Palmer (4-handed piano)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3ScfLqXlYc
12 Next page « Previous thread | Next thread »

CEMB → Forum → Life, The Universe & Everything → The Muses → Opera and classical music!