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Old 09-05-2022, 04:18 PM   #861
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...because the opera story is obviously fake - ever been to an opera before? No chance they spent three hours booing a famous singer no matter how bad he was that night.
No, that actually happened. And does happen. Booing has been part of opera forever.
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Old 09-05-2022, 04:46 PM   #862
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No, that actually happened.
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I was saying boourns.
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No, that actually happened. And does happen. Booing has been part of opera forever.
He lost his voice and continued on for 3 hours? maybe 15 mins...
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Old 09-05-2022, 04:56 PM   #866
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Don’t type booing at the opera into google.
I will do that right now.
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Old 09-05-2022, 04:57 PM   #867
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Looks like they get booed all the time.
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Looks like they get booed all the time.
Not only is OPs story clearly made up but no, audiences don’t boo opera performers. Not out of malice anyways. Maybe as part of the show but it isn’t common.

Nobody is going to boo a tenor who lost his voice. Nor would that tenor continue for a single second after losing his voice.

Montreal crowds can be savage but even that’s below them. They might riot on the way out and flip over a few police cars, but no way they’re booing.
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He lost his voice and continued on for 3 hours? maybe 15 mins...
Look, this was circa 2001 and my memory of the event is questionable at best. I think people would boo and drown him out only when his voice cracked, and the crowd progressively got more and more into the booing, which was initially just a few people.

However, it made the night pretty entertaining for me, watching the opera crowd in Montreal turn "ugly". I was shocked, of course, and also found it cringeworthy as I was understandably confused by the whole thing.

But anyway, in the end it was really quite fun, and while I'm sure that tenor had a really horrible experience that evening, it became a wild experience in the crowd. In some ways it was much better than listening in silent embarrassment to the singer's voice cracking.

I think I may have derailed the thread. My bad. I deserve some boos.
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Look, this was circa 2001 and my memory of the event is questionable at best. I think people would boo and drown him out only when his voice cracked, and the crowd progressively got more and more into the booing, which was initially just a few people.

However, it made the night pretty entertaining for me, watching the opera crowd in Montreal turn "ugly". I was shocked, of course, and also found it cringeworthy as I was shocked by the whole thing.

But anyway, in the end it was really quite fun, and while I'm sure that tenor had a really horrible experience that evening, it became a wild experience. In some ways it was much better than listening in silent embarrassment to the singer's voice cracking.

I think I may have derailed the thread. My bad. I deserve some boos.

Ah the classic caught in a lie, so maybe it was actually a fuzzy memory.



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Ah the classic caught in a lie, so maybe it was actually a fuzzy memory.

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Alright dude. Eff you too.
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Not only is OPs story clearly made up but no, audiences don’t boo opera performers. Not out of malice anyways. Maybe as part of the show but it isn’t common.

Nobody is going to boo a tenor who lost his voice. Nor would that tenor continue for a single second after losing his voice.

Montreal crowds can be savage but even that’s below them. They might riot on the way out and flip over a few police cars, but no way they’re booing.
Sounds like there is some bird flipping at the Opera also.
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Old 09-05-2022, 05:15 PM   #875
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Alright dude. Eff you too.

Ha ha I mean I am here straight out calling you a liar so I guess that’s a fair shot
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Our Second Grade Christmas Pageant was booed.
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I once heard a composer get booed in Calgary. The CPO had performed the debut of his work and it was very, let’s say, modern. The orchestra played the last note of this weird thing and in the silence before the audience realized it was done one old coot yelled “booooo”. It was a bit awkward.
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I once heard a composer get booed in Calgary. The CPO had performed the debut of his work and it was very, let’s say, modern. The orchestra played the last note of this weird thing and in the silence before the audience realized it was done one old coot yelled “booooo”. It was a bit awkward.
Remarkably successful for a modern composer. A lot of them don't have enough of an audience to get booed.
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Remarkably successful for a modern composer. A lot of them don't have enough of an audience to get booed.
It was part of the season series I recall.
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