Christmas greetings!
Merry Christmas!
For those of you who thought this post from yesterday too long to wade through, I thought I’d just put up a portion of the last video in that post here so you can enjoy it for Christmas. It’s a scene from the old Met production of the Humperdinck opera “Hansel and Gretel,” where the children have gotten lost and fallen asleep in the dark and scary forest after saying their prayers with childlike trust. Angels come to guard them in the night (and please watch it in full screen mode to get the impact of the special effects; they can be very difficult to see when the picture is small, and they take a little while to get going):
Oooooo….. Oh…… O….. all RIGHT!
Such a noodger.
Ahh. Oh. O-kay. Now that’s what I call getting TUCKED IN!
Merry Christmas, neo.
Pretty music. Thanks for sharing.
Merry Christmas, Ms. Neoneocon.
I am 53 years old, have loved classical music since I was 5, but *I* never saw this 80’s production. I wonder if the asses who are always trying to come up with something NEW realize that, for a lot of people, the old productions ARE NEW!!!! The Regietheater Eurotrash they are coming up with now is nothing but the stuff of which your own Artfldgr tells us about: the tearing down of the Western artistic heritage of geniuses. Modern life kind of sucks…but this scene is wonderful. Thanks, Neo (from a long time reader and first time commenter).
I do hope your Christmas, Hanukkah, or both were splendid. I hope the ring of cheer also brought fond memories of yesterdays.
neo: here is a little Christmas prezzi for you http://biggeekdad.com/2010/11/dancing-at-the-movies/
Thanks for continuing your comforting blog into 2012 – always full of intelligence and light.