The thing about internet news group is that they have immense value in the overall, being sources of information that aren't necessarily available in the mainstream media. In Real Life one can avoid the intellectually challenged, boring and miserable; email lists keep tumbling into one's inbox leaving one without the means to discriminate (assuming one receives digests to manage the volume and therefore sacrifices the ability to filter and block)
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 16:17:50 +1000, Grant Smallacombe <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 20:48:55 -0400
>> From: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: The Rape of Wagner’s Ring continues in Los Angeles.
>> To: [email protected]
>>
>> Sorry, but I require a tree in Act I
>
>Here, here!
>
Well, this is quite something, not only do we get a meaningless post, to which the only possible answer is 'So what', or, at least, a request for expansion of what almost amounts to a thought process.
Then we get quite possibly the first ever internet post which is 100% mis-spelled, which has to be quite an achievement, but not as great an achievement as making the previous post seem profound by comparison.
I'm sorry if this seems like a personal attack, but having taken a few weeks break from opera mailing lists, I return to Opera-L to see the same small-minded mean-spiritedness in greater relief.
I'm just here for the hilarity, whether intentional - thanks Hermine, and John in reply** - or the unintentional - A.C. Douglas asking whether the Met audience lacks sophistication,* only to be answered perfectly in little more than an hour by the idiot who thinks that opera is about nothing but singing, and can't resist yet another opportunity for getting in an attack on Marcelo Alvarez, for whom he had it in long before the Trovatores ever happened.
Yeah, I'm joining in the mean-spiritedness with glee, but, really, it's very difficult to identify more than a few people on this list who actually enjoy opera.
Note to moderators: feel free to put me on moderation or ban me; it's an obvious weakness on my part that I allow this dross to come into my inbox, only to feel obliged to scroll through it for the rare posts of value.
* did anybody outside New York actually think that the NY Met audience was sophisticated, with their scenery applause and their devotion to unimaginative staid pretty productions that say nothing?
** after several increasingly depressive posts moaning about nothing in particular and boring me stupid, some miserable git wrote
There are few things more annoying than the turning of pages during a concert
to which the incomparable hermine replied
Then you have obviously not had your hair set on fire
which made me LOL, and caused John to reply
