Some peole are born into homes that immerse them in culture from the day that they are born. Others,..like me,..are forced into it. Rozelle took me to a book reception. Bill got some video tapes of opera and tried to make me listen to one opera called what sounded to me like "DAH BOMB."
Later,....I found out that it was pronounced LA BOHEME. The music after the folks open their mouths and start to sing are like a big bomb...they make the air explode with sound. LA BOHEME has a simple plot. It is about a sick girl,..who coughs a lot. She coughs because she is straining her throat from the human howling, that is called singing in opera.
The girl coughs a lot in the first three acts and then,..she ,..finally..dies in the fourth.If she hadn't died about then,..I would have been ready to kill her.......she soundd so bad! The whole thing was captioned wih subtitles because no one could have lip-read them. The subtitles did not make sense sometimes. In one part,..the hero comes out and sings and sings and sings and sings about he sick coughing girl. Then,,when the caption came on the screen for what the man said,..all there was was,"You...ok?"
She yodled back at him for fifteen minutes. Then,..the screen read, "Hack! Hack! I can't breath right!"
I was truly relieved when she died!