{"id":5472,"date":"2022-06-13T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=5472"},"modified":"2024-12-13T09:17:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T09:17:26","slug":"music-life-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=5472","title":{"rendered":"Music &amp; Life: Opera?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_6664-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5471\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_6664-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_6664-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_6664-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_6664-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_6664-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst I suspect nobody cares about this opinion, and probably rightly so, here goes\u2026 I\u2019ve always disliked opera. In fact I\u2019ve pretty much always <em>hated<\/em> it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has always evoked the spirit of the gentry playing at being shepherds like the overprivileged tits they are. The mannered vibrato heavy self-satisfaction that opera singers favour is, after little girls screaming (I\u2019m surprised no military has weaponised that awful sound), and death metal screaming\/grunting, possibly my least favourite type of sound the human voice can make!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years a few pieces have snuck through chinks in my anti-opera armour. But today I think I might\u2019ve found a doorway into appreciating this appallingly overblown art-form. At least sonically. The answer\/trick? Turn it way, way, <em>way<\/em> down!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re out in the garden, it\u2019s beautifully sunny, birds are chirruping, and all is well with life. We brought a DAB radio my mum recently gave us &#8211; thanks, ma! &#8211; out with us. And I put BBC Radio 3 on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bass singer Matthew Rose is presenting Inside Music, and I\u2019m really digging his choices. Even though they are quite often a bit off my usual musical map. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst I suspect nobody cares about this opinion, and probably rightly so, here goes\u2026 I\u2019ve always disliked opera. In fact I\u2019ve pretty much always hated it. It has always evoked the spirit of the gentry playing at being shepherds like the overprivileged tits they are. The mannered vibrato heavy self-satisfaction that opera singers favour is, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=5472\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Music &amp; Life: Opera?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-1qg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5472"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5791,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions\/5791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}