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[alg]

Everyone is doing their holiday card address book updating, and it makes me want to send out holiday cards. I celebrate, in December, the Festival of Hecate, which is a holiday that ethrosdemon and I made up for a Harry Potter fanfic we wrote a few years ago. I decided I liked it a lot, and appropriated it to be my holiday, kind of like Festivus, but not so annoying.

I would love to send out holiday cards, but -- but I am too lazy, basically. I mean, first one has to figure out what card. Then something to write inside each card. Then to the post office. And then! Money I could be spending on new tattoos is spent to mail things.

I don't think so!

Here are three things you should know:

(1.) Today I wore a plastic necklace, and looked freaking adorable. That is the necklace I am wearing to SFWA later this month! This was just a practice run. *g*

(2.) My sister and I have decided to go see an opera. garretfw was talking about opera a few days ago, and since I've never been, I started talking about it, and now my sister and I want to go. Does anyone have suggestions for a happy opera that is not about infidelity? We are very picky. Nothing unhappy, nothing about infidelity. I feel like that cuts out 99% of all operas right there! I think we're doing to end up at die Walkuere, but we're open to your thoughts.

(3.) Bloom by Elizabeth Scott is up there in the top five books I've read this year, nestled right near My Heartbeat and Stay With Me by Garret Freymann-Weyr. Seriously. I can't believe how good it is; my mind is blown.

Comments

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure operas are allowed to be happy/not about infidelity. I think you have to go to operettas or musicals for that. :)

[alg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know! I'm hoping that perhaps someone will turn Girls Just Want To Have Fun into an opera. I am sure it would be divine translated into Italian. :)

[(Anonymous)]

Barber of Seville is an opera with no infidelity, and believe it or not, is also a comedy. I saw it with my sister here in Edmonton last year. She loved it, giggled throughout. I was vaguely amused, but for a first opera, I would have preferred a more serious tone. I think. Haven't been to any others.

[alg.livejournal.com]

It is a comedic opera? How crazy! Maybe I will try that one. :)

[morbidloren.livejournal.com]

You'll know a lot of the music, too, if you've watched Bugs Bunny.

I was going to suggest The Magic Flute, which has dragon slaying and bird people in it, or The Love of Three Oranges, which is a series of fairy tales. You'll recognize music in those too.

[dulcimeoww.livejournal.com]

<3 the Magic Flute, it's one of my very favorites since I was about six.

[morbidloren.livejournal.com]

I just saw an amazing production of it in San Francisco. The first half was by far the most amazing opera I've ever seen.

[julesjones]

It's very, very funny. I saw it in San Francisco on Halloween last year, and nearly died laughing. Of course, it helped that the guy playing the Count was seriously buff, and the costume designer felt the need to make sure we could see this. :-)

[Mildly lewd commentary about it at predatrix's LJ: http://predatrix.livejournal.com/41896.html ]

Opera suggestions

[slrose.livejournal.com]

The Barber of Seville. [

Turandot, which has a happy ending.

The Magic Flute.

Cendrillon.

The Daughter of the Regiment.

Re: Opera suggestions

[alg.livejournal.com]

Neat, thank you!

[shadawyn.livejournal.com]

I just went and saw the Seattle production Iphigenia in Tauris (http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/season/production.aspx?id=9440), which is now heading to New York, to my understanding. It has a happy ending and isn't about infidelity, although it has its share of angst.

[alg.livejournal.com]

Iphigenia has a happy ending? I'd've sworn from what I read that it sounded sad. Awesome, maybe I will go see that!

[lanyn.livejournal.com]

In addition to the ones already mentioned:

The Elixir of Love is one of the happy operas, is loaded with catchy melodies, and it's a lot of fun to see. It's probably my favorite of the Italian comedies.

L'Amico Fritz is happy and very beautiful, but it's almost never performed. Great listening opera, though.

Gianni Schicchi is a one act opera by Puccini that's a comedy, though it almost never gets performed by itself (too short).

[lanyn.livejournal.com]

Not that any of those are playing at the Met or the NY opera this coming season! :-D

[divinebird.livejournal.com]

I was going to suggest L'Elixir d'Amore! Too bad it's not playing--it was the last opera I went to see with my grandparents before my granddad died. Such a happy memory.