Curmundgeonliness encouraged. :)
2007-07-06 13:39:15 · 17 answers · asked by Teresa H 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Classical
Awww.... My niece told me over the holiday, "I know opera. I know Sarah Brightman." I slapped her.
2007-07-06 14:16:49 · update #1
Verbally. Not literally. With Maria Callas.
2007-07-06 14:18:12 · update #2
Verdi is my childhood, the countryside where my mom was born, fog and poplars and a glass of lambrusco wine, days of queue to get a cheap Otello ticket under the snow, the chorists eating chopped horse meat while changing clothes.
L.W., were he the greatest ever, would never get even near to those flavours.
2007-07-07 03:44:52 · answer #1 · answered by the italian 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Giuseppe Verdi is Mondoro Asti
Andrew Lloyd Weber is Pepsi
2007-07-06 18:18:46 · answer #2 · answered by T2X 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Opera, which I thoroughly enjoy by Giueseppe F.F. Verdi, an Italian, compared to Germany's Beethoven and spanned 400 years. Requiem I/II and Aida are my favorites but I also like all the Rigoletto too.
Andrew Lloyd Weber is a British theatrical composer. Phantom of the Opera and Cats are a sampling of 2 works I love. The only music he ever composed I'm not fond of is for "Jesus Christ Superstar"
I seldom meet anyone on YA who listens to and appreciates Opera.
2007-07-06 13:56:34 · answer #3 · answered by kriend 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ok... Verdi is a natural instinctive musical dramatist, psychologist and consummate craftsman of genius; Andrew Lloyd Webber is a plagiarist's plagiarist where requiems are concerned ... and wrote a number of highly successful, carefully crafted pieces of popular musical theatre.
Sorry, re: curmudgeonly -- 't would be unfair, but admittedly tempting, just to slag off the second man across the board: too easy, and just not quite right... :-/
2007-07-06 14:00:50 · answer #4 · answered by CubCur 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
As usual "The Italian" gives the best answer. I grew up on Verdi and Puccini and they are part of my being. Webber has composed some pleasing tunes.
2007-07-07 05:23:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I strongly suspect, that, with a name like Weber (or, Webber) if you were to give his Family Tree a good shake, a few of God's 'favourite' and "chosen people" would land at your feet!
2016-05-20 01:58:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Verdi is Italian
Webber is English
2007-07-07 05:23:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Verdi is OPERA; Andre Lloyd Weber is MUSICALS.
2007-07-06 16:15:39 · answer #8 · answered by Muzi 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I feel your pain. I meet my hubby's work colleagues and when they ask what I do for a living- and I say "professional opera singer"- they say, "Oh, we LOVE opera- here, honey- tell her how much we loved Phantom!"
I just finished two runs of Un Ballo in Maschera- GREAT show!!!
Verdi is "IT", ALW is "SH*T"
(although, I myself have been to some GOOD performances of Phantom in my day- it is a good piece of theater)
2007-07-06 20:28:48 · answer #9 · answered by ewsoprano 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Verdi is "a 'driven' genius". Andrew Lloyd Weber is "pedestrian".
2007-07-06 14:00:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋