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Re:The Fat Lady Is Singing by bsder on Monday September 24, 2018 @12:18AM (#18054992)
The best marketing for opera EVER was "What's opera, Doc (giving us "Kill Da Wabbit") followed by "Rabbit of Seville". I would imagine that accounts for 2/3 of all common opera exposure.

(The other 1/3 is probably "Vesti la Giubba" from Pagliacci which seems to be in EVERY single mobster movie ever made ...)

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Re:The Fat Lady Is Singing by watersb on Monday September 24, 2018 @05:11PM (#18061503)
Santa Fe Opera ended their 2018 Summer season with a silly and fun production of "The Italian Girl in Algiers" [0]. Satire of current events, American pop-culture references, including some great bits from "Rabbit of Seville".

Carl Stalling, Warner Brothers' music director, was a genius.

[0]: https://www.santafeopera.org/opera-blog/post/2018/august/com...

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