# Question for opera fans

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 2, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-opera-fans/787952 "2017-06-02T19:20:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2017, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-opera-fans/787952/21 "2017-06-04T00:23:37Z")

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or Victor Borge

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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2017, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-opera-fans/787952/22 "2017-06-04T00:28:41Z")

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YES! Them, too, both 'em! Anna Russell is a total doll, and her analysis of Wagner is surpassing brilliant. Highly educational, and hilarious too!

[Here’s the YouTube link.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN5dAQLYYrs) It’s longish, 28 minutes, but if you have any interest in opera at all, whatever, you will probably not rue the time spent watching!

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2017, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-opera-fans/787952/23 "2017-06-04T00:57:03Z")

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> [@Trinopus](#):
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> YES! Them, too, both 'em! Anna Russell is a total doll, and her analysis of Wagner is surpassing brilliant. Highly educational, and hilarious too!
> 
> [Here’s the YouTube link.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN5dAQLYYrs) It’s longish, 28 minutes, but if you have any interest in opera at all, whatever, you will probably not rue the time spent watching!

“Remember Alberich?”

There’s a story about Rossini that has him literally writing and passing the music for one of his operas to the house manager AS THE ORCHESTRA IS PLAYING THE OVERTURE FOR ITS PREMIERE PERFORMANCE.

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