{"id":1624,"date":"2008-02-04T16:12:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T16:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-02-04T16:16:32","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T16:16:32","slug":"so_the_news_is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1624","title":{"rendered":"So The News Is Full of the Football Game Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Which apparently was v. exciting. We should have watched it instead of seeing a crushingly dull version of ‘Tristan and Isolde’ by the LA Opera. The sets – by Hockney – kept me thinking of ‘What’s Opera Doc?’,
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and the wooden-acting, dispassionately-singing Tristan – John Treleaven – got Wagner exactly wrong. I won’t claim Patterico’s musical knowledge, but in my view Wagner has to be sung with the reckless certainty of an adolescent sure that no one – no one<\/i> has ever felt the feelings he is feeling right now; no one as angry, no one as passionately in love, no one as despairing. The cracked adolescent view of the world is central to Wagner, and when not done with passion and a crazed certainty leaves the audience feeling vaguely ridiculous.<\/p>\n

Wagner’s characters do love death, and later on I’ll spring off that a bit to talk about Foucault and the Iranian Revolution.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, yay Giants!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armed Liberal went to the opera instead of the Super Bowl party, and regrets it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}