Opera in the Fruit & Veggie Market

Here in Zürich, Switzer­land we have pub­lic live, tele­vised opera per­for­mances from pub­lic places. It was great to walk pas a live per­for­mance at our main sta­tion on my way home then watch the rest on TV. They used the whole sta­tion to great effect, it was a very impres­sive pro­duc­tion.

http://www.sf.tv/sendungen/latraviata/index.php

Fan­tas­tic!

The video is rem­i­nis­cent of these three bril­liant videos by ImprovEv­ery­where:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRKfZ0mGLaY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkYZ6rbPU2M&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=9C5623622606791F
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnY59mDJ1gg&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=9C5623622606791F

Great but I would have enjoyed it immense­ly more if I under­stood the words. Opera should be pre­sent­ed in the pri­ma­ry lan­guage used in the coun­tries ist is per­formed in.
It was a nice ges­ture by the singers to do what they did, how­ev­er.

Music is the inter­na­tion­al lan­guage! Prob­a­bly, if it were done in the lan­guage of each coun­try, the trans­la­tions might not work well with the music. I just enjoy the music, and usu­al­ly the pro­gram tells you what is hap­pen­ing, any­way. I love opera! I love the way the singers engaged the audi­ence! And to the one who won­dered if this would begin a return to clas­si­cal music, I fer­vent­ly hope so! I enjoy dif­fer­ent gen­res, but clas­si­cal is my favorite. It is the genre that nev­er fails to move me to tears, as some in this audi­ence were.