QUALITY ASSURANCES
By all means,one should make every normal preparation against being thrust before critical eyes in ill-mannered actions - albeit unintended and socially uncouth conduct - or in verbal statements, when in attendance at the Opera.
These basic rules are binding,of course,with all types of opera. Lovers of opera are, for the most part, I have found, persons who sometimes are given excess involvement with the highly emotional scenes being depicted so intensely dramatically and transcending perfection itself at times as actors-singers combine their artistic talents to present drama which can truly be called "grand". Such a powerful emotionally surge can cause persons in attendance to,for the moment, to dis-remember where they are and cause the utter aloud some crude localisms in an effort to show appreciation for and enthusiasm regarding the climactic peak attained; the absolute epitome of the superior thespian skills in speech - in song and dance.
It is so very easy to let statements and plaudits of admiration for sterling performance to use common, trite and tired words from the mundane circumstances we know at home.
Promise me, before next Opera season get underway, at you will, visit our local library and seek out a small volume titled "Fowler's Dictionary of Usage of the English Language." If you might find yourself listening to a fine lady singing a favorite of yours and, when she finished he treatment of the musical selection you bring your palms together forcefully and bellow: "Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!"
You are happy, content enthused as are the others about you.
Not so had you read Fowler's concerns with such moments of adulation. There is a proper protocol. If the singer be a male - one praises his singing with a spoken: "Bravo!" When a lady sings: "Brava!"and if multiple members of the entire company are presented a proper admirer shouts: "Brav-e!!"
I step aside in something akin to shame for I, too, have fallen short of dictionary directions. The opera itself was real posh.
Andrew McCaskey Sr. amccsr@comcast.net 1-30-07 [c352wds]QUALITY ASSURANCES
By all means,one should make every normal preparation against being thrust before critical eyes in ill-mannered actions - albeit unintended and socially uncouth conduct - or in verbal statements, when in attendance at the Opera.
These basic rules are binding,of course,with all types of opera. Lovers of opera are, for the most part, I have found, persons who sometimes are given excess involvement with the highly emotional scenes being depicted so intensely dramatically and transcending perfection itself at times as actors-singers combine their artistic talents to present drama which can truly be called "grand". Such a powerful emotionally surge can cause persons in attendance to,for the moment, to dis-remember where they are and cause the utter aloud some crude localisms in an effort to show appreciation for and enthusiasm regarding the climactic peak attained; the absolute epitome of the superior thespian skills in speech - in song and dance.
It is so very easy to let statements and plaudits of admiration for sterling performance to use common, trite and tired words from the mundane circumstances we know at home.
Promise me, before next Opera season get underway, at you will, visit our local library and seek out a small volume titled "Fowler's Dictionary of Usage of the English Language." If you might find yourself listening to a fine lady singing a favorite of yours and, when she finished he treatment of the musical selection you bring your palms together forcefully and bellow: "Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!"
You are happy, content enthused as are the others about you.
Not so had you read Fowler's concerns with such moments of adulation. There is a proper protocol. If the singer be a male - one praises his singing with a spoken: "Bravo!" When a lady sings: "Brava!"and if multiple members of the entire company are presented a proper admirer shouts: "Brav-e!!"
I step aside in something akin to shame for I, too, have fallen short of dictionary directions. The opera itself was real posh.
Andrew McCaskey Sr. amccsr@comcast.net 1-30-07 [c352wds]
