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Bah! I can't leave it just there! Dream with Me? *Smile...also maybe I can finally get some sleep! Imagine Us...
having heard that there is a performance...*
Lady Erasure! Quick let's duck into an Opera house! HA!
*Dressed appropriately, We join a growing crowd of other thread members who've been seated in a reserved box...We arrive late! Right in the middle of Don Giovanni Unmasked! HA!*
*Whisper*...want to see the beginning? ssshhh...let's head out by the hidden stairway, come on...
*hurries down a hall, open an ornate door, the Lady slips through and I follow close behind... aaaaaa....the first act!...See to Your comfort then sink into the plush reclining seats with plenty of leg room!*
Relaxation at last!
KnightShadow
I am not a big fan of Opera House, but I must admit that his voice is gorgeous, so... may be I'll shake a cobweb or two and join you there. So you are dressed appropriately? Good, because we should probably go to listen to him in Bolshoi Theater, that just re-opened its doors again after 6 years and Khvorostovsky participated in the gala-concert, where all the Russian beaumonde has gathered, not to mention all the foreign dignitaries.(I hope that that's the reserved box you were talking about, otherwise I am not going to bother changing the garbs of the the small Mid-West town to something glitzy and glamorous))))
PS. Oh, and about Dark in the Night - Knight Shadow, I didn't like the Hvorostovskiy version. It's not for the opera singer; something like this song should be left alone. Mark Bernes was perfect and even the other icon of those times - the famous actor/singer Leonid Utesov couldn't pull out this song as far as I am concerned. Although like Bernes he was performing at the front lines for soldiers during the war. No matter how many remakes of those songs will come, they belong to another generation. The generation that was born at the cusp of revolution, lived through the lengthy civil war, purges, and headed straight to the WWII by the time they were twenty. So their songs belong to them.
I'll leave one more of those songs here from war times; I like Utesov's version the best.
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