{"id":48,"date":"2001-09-01T20:20:41","date_gmt":"2001-09-02T01:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2001\/09\/01\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-16T02:00:55","modified_gmt":"2005-10-16T06:00:55","slug":"its-opera-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2001\/09\/01\/its-opera-time\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Opera Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been watching the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/gperf\/littlewomen\">Little Women opera<\/a> on PBS.  At first, I thought I had missed some of it, because it started out with Jo angsting madly about the fact that Laurie married Amy, but it turns out that was just the way they arranged it.  This thing is completely and totally cracktastic. (I like that word.)  They&#8217;ve taken some of the plot from the book, and some of the bits from Alcott&#8217;s life (rather like the movie version a few years ago with Winona Ryder and Susan Sarandon), threw them in a blender, and hit puree.  Most of the secondary characters have been removed or compressed into one or two people. The music is pretty lame.  But it&#8217;s amusing, and I can&#8217;t quite explain why.  I can&#8217;t say that it&#8217;s -bad-. I don&#8217;t know enough about opera to say that.<\/p>\n<p>Playing Professor Bhaer is Chen-Ye Yuan, which is, frankly, an odd bit of casting. <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching the Little Women opera on PBS. At first, I thought I had missed some of it, because it started out with Jo angsting madly about the fact that Laurie married Amy, but it turns out that was just the way they arranged it. This thing is completely and totally cracktastic. (I like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}