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Advantages: I am glad I was introduced to this one. Disadvantages: One dodgy track could have been omited.
Auf Der Maur were a band that I had not heard of before last week. It was not till I read a review by one-true-ben that they came to my attention. I was interested enough to investigate their web site and was very impressed and I downloaded the four available video's from there and have been listening to them for days while I have waited for the album to arrive.
I am writing this as I listen to it for the first time because I wanted write it now to get my first impressions. I haven't even opened it yet.
It says on the cellophane wrapper,
'Le premier album de Mellisa Auf Der Maur en collaberation avec les meilleurs musiciens du rock nord-american'
The album arrived from CDWoW via airmail from Hong Kong, actually faster than the royal mail would have delivered it from next door, but that is beside the point. I am trying to ...
Advantages: A little series of such simplicity that makes you fall in love with the world again. Disadvantages: Can be frustrating for its constantly changing perspectives.
INTRODUCTION
"A traveller doesn't just see numerous different places, but gets familiarised with different cultures and the results of their sick and twisted circumstances. Kino is one of these travellers. Riding on Hermes, her talking motorcycle and companion, she searches answers to all of life's mysteries. Armed with hunting knives, revolvers, and a sharp tongue she is ready for a journey, that differs from all others before. Do you want to join an unforgettable journey?"
THE "PLOT" AND BACKGROUND
To be honest, when I read the above description of this DVD in the store I was far from convinced of its merits. The part about the "talking motorcycle" in particular ringed like light-hearted kiddie stuff a la Knight Rider that didn't really warrant any special attention. But in any case I decided to chance it for it wasn't very ...
Advantages: Great cast, conductor and orchestra, top notch production Disadvantages: None, to be honest
all things are relative!?
Anyway, once you get around the issue of people singing most of the time, I have to say that the vast majority of operatic plots do deal with situations that are actually very realistic in terms of human nature - love, treachery, war, ambition, envy etc - and this is definitely the case with Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier" ("The Rose Kavalier".) The main aspect which has to be explained right at the start is that the character of Octavian - a male - is sung by a woman. Why? Because he is supposed to be only 17 years old and having a middle-aged tenor just wouldn't cut it dramatically. For me it is no different from the female Principal Boy in pantomimes.
Richard Strauss wrote the opera to a libretto by his long-time collaborator Hugo von Hofmannsthal and it was premiered in Dresden in 1911 ...
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