How important do you guys find Opera to be? It certainly feels like besides Wagner, most people here rarely discuss Opera beyond overtures. What is the reason instrumental music became the leading type of music that a composer was known for rather than their Operas?

Is it just because Anglos are too afraid to translate these works to english? Translations of opera are almost as old of a practice as opera itself, so I always found it a bit silly how so many performances fixate on it being in the original language. I think the librettist would be more appreciative if you understood what he wrote rather than just hearing what he wrote as a bunch of gibberish while you read a translation through a pamphlet. I can understand if the performance is in the original country of origin or a country that speaks the language. But would a orchestra perform either operas or arias in a language they don't speak, completely butchering it and making it hard to understand for literally everyone? It's linguistic schizophrenia imo

First movement of Prague or the Magic Flute overture? Which one do you guys prefer? Mainly asking because I've seen some people crap on the Magic Flute overture on the front of him rehashing the main musical idea from Prague.

Personally, I find the overture to the Magic Flute to be my personal favorite symphonic instrumental movement he ever composed. It's everything I enjoy about him rolled into 6-8 minutes. I love the way Mozart merges aspects of the old form of the French Overture with Sonata-Allegro, I love the outside simplicity conceals the inner intricacy, not to mention it just being overall very expressive and fun, like the rest of the opera is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfsgfxr-jp4

What do you guys think?

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>>127318903
Granted, it probably also has to do with me more often seeking out recordings that observe the repeats so I tend to skip over ones that don't. Probably should do that less. Though it is a genuine gripe I have when recordings do that.

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For me it depends on a movement to movement basis. If all the movements are captivating the length of the work does not matter for me. But sometimes a certain movement (Usually a slow movement) can really kill the flow for me. Though that slow movements are really hard to captivate me also leads the ones that do to be some of my favorite movements in all of music, so it balances out.

>>4421260
She has pudgy boobs, not big badonkers. The AI who drew the previous image clearly can't draw her proportions properly. Especially her figure

Generally you can tell AI from human art just by how sexualized it is, AI tends to give a very lustful representation of whatever character it draws, even when it is impressively real looking. Case in point, compare that image to >>4418204
for example

You can see this in the other AI images in the thread too, >>4416733 draws her boobs way too big as well. It's kind of interesting. It feels like AI is fed so much gooner art that it is unable to make something genuinely wholesome without some level of sexualization. In this case it's giving her body a conventional hourglass shape, bigger breasts and a rounder, more puppydog looking face compared to what she looks when drawn by most human beings. Regardless cute maidrisu guy

What formal argument would you bring to the table as to why simplistic works of classical music are better than music in other styles with similar levels of complexity (at least, on a technical level)?

I mainly want to know from those that believe there is an objective standard of beauty in music, if your answer to this is just "I like the sound better", this question is not specifically aimed towards you in this case. This is also not a rhetorical question.

>>126889986
>So your position is just being an extreme contrarian, pretending that there's been no good music produced in the last century?
I'll butt in here, he did not make any statement about there being no good music being produced in the last century in your quote. He said that pop music was commercialized and braindead, which is objectively true in most scenarios. He is a bit spergy in the way he pushes his point, but still.
>You gonna give me some cliched line about the decline of Western civilization or something?
Cliche lines aren't always wrong. There definitely has been a decline in how western society treats art, music especially. A lot of the posts in this thread, bait or not, are proof of that. Generally most people who listen to music cannot properly describe or understand why they like the things they like, looking at it more like a hedonistic activity of mindless pleasure. You can claim that there isn't anything wrong with this idea, but it's always good to look at things with a critical eye. There's a reason the notion of "turn your brain off" is heavily looked down upon in literature, film, theater, etc. I do not see why music can't be the same, it takes a tiny bit of research to get acquainted with the basic terminology and most concepts should already be familiar to you from listening expierence. This is not to say that everyone should seek out complex music for the sake of it, but at least be able to describe the music they like and why they like it. When someone asks you what you like about your favorite film, do you not have an answer? Most people do, even if that answer is extremely rudimentary. Yet with music I rarely get anything beyond "sick bassline and beat" when asking a person about why they like the music they like.

>>280117898
Yeah, it's genuinely one of my favorite pieces of japanese media ever produced. Get 0 as well, it has issues but it's still enjoyable and has my wife in it

Bruckner's original versions or revisions? Which ones are better? Was listening to his symphony no. 4 performed in the original version and it's surprising how different it is

Are there any genuine inside-NK recordings by North Korean orchestras that ever got bootlegged (Not orchestras from there performing outside of it)? Kinda curious what they'd sound like.