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Summary: this is how I got past the classics as a child
Comment: This album(and i mean vinyl...when I bought it in 1984 )was a COMPLETE breakthrough as far as the operettas and arias put in front of me .....this album tells the story of each and evey aria .....as an earley teen...this body of work enabled me as an adult to be able to attend and understand AND have a better overall appreciation of Puccini's work....he is my fave....still love them all...I completly recommend this C.D. ....pass it on to anybody who thinks that they don't like the opera!!!
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Summary: Oh the memories...
Comment: What a great album. I've listened to that album in vinyl format all my childhood (cool parents) and now it's on CD. I've been looking for that album for a long time, I'm glad I found it on Amazon.
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Summary: Madam Butterfly
Comment: This is the only CD I've ever purchased for a single song. And I consider myself well compensated.
The lead track, Madam Butterfly (Un Bel Di Vedremo), is the kind of tune I can listen to anywhere, anytime. McLaren sets Puccini's operatic arrangement against the stumbling introduction of a self-admitted bounder and the faithful boastings of his concubine, a woman with whom he will never settle. This is the only pop song that absolutely breaks by heart. "Softly kissing my eyelashes. Call me fool, call me stupid. My white honky's here to stay." She is twice his equal. And it comes from the producer of the Sex Pistols. Experience perhaps.
Worth it.
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Summary: do it! get this album...
Comment: i first heard this album in about 1994 and IMMEDIATELY fell in love with it. i am a lover of italian opera and McLaren's interpretion mixing the purity of the opera with some complimentary hip-hop was GENIUS. he didn't cross any lines or anything. my particular favourites are from "madame butterfly"...my favourite opera of forever! i highly reccommend that you purchase this classic.
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Summary: When opera meets R & B and Hip Hop, Life is Grand
Comment: I have had season tickets to the LA Opera for years. At the same time, I enjoy today's music, although I have been skeptical of hip hop. This CD reduces opera to the bare essentials without violating the music or the integrity of the art form. Counterpoint between sung arias and spoken word is clever and exciting. Voices are excellent. The words succinctly spell out the opera's story line while the melodies linger in the background. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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