Reply To: Criteria needed for ratings

[andy-bandy]

Hi walter!

long time “no see” as we say. I will try to reply a lot more often. I cant disagree, of course it doues something with the “wholeness” of the piece. After listening to several recordings of der ring des nbielungen i must say that u am too attached (in love) to(with) furtwanglers wagner to give it ratings anything less than 10/10. I stand by my decision because it is the best 8in my opinion) recording there is. I have heard the others, but there are no one who encapsules your soul and being into an opera like Furtwangler. I have tried to experience others, but i keep returning to furtwangler (if you think another recording can “fill the gap” please tell me). On to another subject; Opera is, in my opinion, a perfect blend between music, poetry and storyline (in which Wagner manages to balance all these factors perfectly (maintaining the centre of the opera on the music)). Recently i was in a discussion about art forms (by the way, im not here only to dispute the “true nature of the opera”) in which i of course argued that opera is the most developed and complete art form prior to video games that my friend was going on about. I managed to convince him that opera is a more complete art form, than video games (obviously). On the other hand, video games has been developing a lot in the recent years, they have been collaborating with orchestras perfectioning their artistic agenda (becoming an art form). I personally think that video game music has become a respected form of art that will be developing, unfortunately on the expence of the most complete art form: opera. what do you think about this mattes? i would like to hear someone from the opera side contemplate this matter besides myself.

Marco!? have you ever been to alla scala???

Andy 🙂
Oslo, Norway