Listen
this evening has been devoted to the reading of a book called "listen." i felt it necessary to share a small quote from it with you. in a discussion about the tomb scene of verdi's opera "aida" was found by me this sentence: "amneris's grief is set directly against the ecstatic, otherworldly togetherness of radames and aida." wow, ecstatic otherworldly togetherness. i love it! hahaha! and your word of the day shall be a creation of wagner, coined by him during the 1850's to describe his "music dramas," which transcended plain old opera.
gesamtkunstwerk - "total work of art", or "complete-art work"
gesamtkunstwerk - "total work of art", or "complete-art work"
posted by quirky at 8:31 PM
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great word. i'd perfer it written phonetically though, so i could pronounce it. i've seen aida. not as an opera, but it was the musical on campus this semester. ecstatic otherworldly togetherness sounds awesome.
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