Hey Steph - wasn't me this time - my sister got the tickets and I went with my brother in law

Waiting On The World To Change

I saw it on youtube. Awesomeness! Thanks for telling me, Irish & scotz!

I saw Nabucco (Nebuchadnezzar), Giuseppe Verdi’s first successful opera, for the first time last night. In it, he retells the Biblical story of the captivity of the Israelites in Babylon in the 6th century B.C.

In the opera, the chorus "Va, pensiero" (a reworking of Psalm 137) is sung by the exiled Israelites on the banks of the Euphrates, lamenting the loss of their homeland. The piece became a popular anthem for the north Italians. It served to express their own longing for political freedom from Austria, rather like the Negro spirituals in the antebellum South. Supposedly, when Verdi's coffin was carried to its final resting place in 1901, the crowd of over 25,000 people along the route began singing this “freedom hymn”.

With grand, sweeping themes, a great cast, well thought out staging and scenery, excellent lighting – Lordy Lordy! It was a splendid concert! :)

I haven't gone to concerts in ages. My time for concerts was in the 80's.

-Jefferson Starship
-Elvis Costello
-Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (w/ Stevie Nicks)
-AC/DC "Back in Black" tour
-ASIA
-The Cars
-Rolling Stones "Tatoo You" tour
-George Thoroughgood (sp?) & the Delaware Destroyers
-Poco
-Little River Band
-Barry Manilow
-Neil Diamond
-Bette Midler
-Sting
-Prince (when he first started out...he was awful)
-Phil Collins
-Spyro Gyra
-Hall & Oates
-Air Supply
-Ella Fitzgerald and Lionel Hampton (1973)

and others I can't remember now. :)

The opera sounds fantastic! Very envious, here. :)

Halleluiah!
 

Dearsweet & I saw “Messiah” at the BSO recently, and I was impressed at the theatrical treatment the conductor, Ed Polochick presented!

Handel’s oratorio has been an icon for so long that some performances seem timid, as if there is only one way to stage the performance. Ed was having none of that! The tenor delivered his arias with a rather heroic attitude, and when the chorus sang their “Glory to God”, if I closed my eyes I could almost – not quite but almost – see the angels alerting the shepherds of the Joyful Event.

I’m sure the purists tut tutted, but I enjoyed it! :)