Oh My God. So, I tried to clean up a post I made last night and ended up deleting it! I was sassy in it! I offended some readers, even! And now it seems to be totally gone. I have the second half, below, but, I’m sad. <\/p>\n
Let me direct your attention to a very interesting post<\/a> by Mark Adamo over on his blog about Adams’s The Death of Klinghoffer.<\/em> It is worth a read in its entirety, mainly because this opera<\/a> is one of the first contemporary ones that I really connected with (at age 14). <\/p>\n Adamo’s arguments are interesting for a variety of reasons, but mainly, because his interest in opera is about the Vital Drama of the thing. For Adamo, the ostinato-driven chorus\/recit pattern of Adams’s operas is fundamentally off-putting. Why is it, then, that for me, as a teenager, I found it so appealing, and traditional opera structure so alien? I don’t have any answers to these questions.<\/p>\n The ending of this opera rocks my world still:<\/p>\n [audio:Endhoffer.mp3] There is so much to love here; what’s difficult, in Adamo’s mind, is how it relates to the overall structure of the opera as well as to the Political umbrella under which the opera hovers. Go know. It’s well worth (a) a listen and (b) a read. Isn’t the point of these things that we all listen more anyway?<\/p>\n And finally, did everybody watch Top Chef where the contestants have to fillet a sardine for Eric Ripert? You all know I am obsessed with Eric Ripert<\/a>. He made me a vagina<\/a> out of fish! But there was an amazing exchange:<\/p>\n PADMA LAKSHMI: What happened!? [looking at a really busted sardine fillet] Aaaaaah he’s having them butcher eel! So good. He referred to one of the contestants as being more “at ease” with “the timing” which is so French I could pee myself. Also the waiter at the Le Bernardin Private Dining Chamber said “Maiitake” when he meant “Matsutake” or the other way but shh<\/em>. Also he made them escolar which totally gave my friend anal leakage<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oh My God. So, I tried to clean up a post I made last night and ended up deleting it! I was sassy in it! I offended some readers, even! And now it seems to be totally gone. I have the second half, below, but, I’m sad. Let me direct your attention to a very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJohn Adams You Embraced Them<\/em> from The Death of Klinghoffer<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n
\nCARLA: Girl…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n