{"id":148,"date":"2007-11-23T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.92.226.17\/?p=148"},"modified":"2007-11-23T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T22:21:00","slug":"nano-opera-la-rondine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erinvang.com\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"Nano-opera: La Rondine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La Rondine is your basic &#8220;girl meets guy, blows off icky rich husband, runs off with guy, wimps out, returns to rich husband, blows off and breaks heart of good guy&#8221; story set to equally boring music.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, yet another misogynist libretto and forgettable music, performed well by the San Francisco Opera, conducted adequately by some dude with regrettable Kent Nagano hair. A violinist friend in the opera orchestra (nameless here for reasons about to become obvious) said his hair was the only reason they could follow him: he attempted to give beats 1, 2, and 3 with his stick and did give a really clear beat 4 by running his other hand through his hair. The violinist mentioned that it&#8217;s a good thing his hair is long, or else beat 4 would have been only an eighth note.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Victoria pointed out that the lead diva had nice breasts. (She sang well, too.) A backstage friend in the opera company (nameless here for reasons about to become obvious) replied that it was no accident that only she had low-cut costumes, and then admitted that it was probably just as well given most of the figures in the chorus.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Rondine is your basic &#8220;girl meets guy, blows off icky rich husband, runs off with guy, wimps out, returns to rich husband, blows off and breaks heart of good guy&#8221; story set to equally boring music.\u00a0 So, yet another misogynist libretto and forgettable music, performed well by the San Francisco Opera, conducted adequately by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opera"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erinvang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erinvang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erinvang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erinvang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erinvang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erinvang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erinvang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erinvang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erinvang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}