Comments on: Opera in a beer hall

By: Lucinda Butler

Lucinda Butler — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:33:09 +0000

Rimrock Opera in Billings started with a grass roots effort and we are poised to celebrate our 10th season.
Jen Jones has been in our productions.
Please come see our operas – at the Alberta Bair Theater. Opera fans do not have to travel to other states to enjoy world class productions.
The Marriage of Figaro will be in Billings at the Alberta Bair Theater Sept. 20 and 21, 2009, Carmen March 29 and 30 , 2009.
Intermountain Opera in Bozeman has a show in May, 2008.

By: jack

jack — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:37:37 +0000

well, your article was fun as far as it goes, but the last sentence destroyed your objectivity and thus your credibility. I am fortunate to have been raised in Butte and having been exposed to opera while in the school system…our bartenders were often opera fans and sang well, as they had the love of Irish tenors in the blood…stop with the provincial crap..Missoula is a city of mostly people who have been around the pike a bit..or at least a large percentage have been…the world is as good West of Hellgate and you could take some lessons from the poor, unsophisticated Butte hill folks..opera for opera’s sake…beauty can be appreciated by rich and poor…hell, in LA, we have opera in pizza parlors as well as in the elegant Chandler Pavillion….a bar? big deal…anyway it gets to pe0ple, all people is good….STOP Provincialism!

By: Gina

Gina — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:19:41 +0000

The hope for – and the beauty of – this performance series is that half of the audience included people who knew every aria well enough to hum along; the other half either thought they hated, or had never heard, classical singing before. Collectively, they loved it! One listener said, “The joy in the room was palpable! What an extraordinary experience!”

Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner!!…it isn’t meant to be an ‘us vs. them’ thing at all. It’s a ‘let’s discover/celebrate a small piece of this amazing art form in a fun atmosphere’ thing…

The next one is in July–come join us!

By: Boris

Boris — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:05:04 +0000

Re: my earlier comments above. Don’t get me wrong – I live here too and I love it here. But sometimes I get the feeling talking to people around town that there is a certain sort of prideful parochialism. Why not have opera in a bar AND a concert hall?

By: Boris

Boris — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:02:59 +0000

Why can’t opera at the Badlander just be enjoyed on its own merits without having to turn the performance into an argument of ‘us versus them’/little-town-egalitarianism versus big-town-snobbery? Especially when the author admits in passing that the whole IDEA of opera in a bar was stolen from a similar program in effect in NYC? A good piece for the most part, but marred – like so much Missoula journalism – by undeserved small-town selfrighteousness at the end.

By: Jay Stevens

Jay Stevens — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:27:18 +0000

Dang, that sounds fun! You mention it’s a “series.” Are there going to be more events? Do tell!

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