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@mortalfrog0815 According to my score it is 'Stimmt an die Saiten' - and my fairly accurate german translates that as 'Sound (or strike) the Strings' as in those of a musical instrument such as a harp or violin. The usual english translation of 'Awake the Harp' is some what poetic and numerical...

The greatest singer of the 20th Century bar none!

I think that a strong contrast between Jesus and Judas is what makes any production of Godspell work and this one has it in spades. Judas as the repressed, staid business man against Jesus' lighter clowning is magical - especially when Judas, at 'someone's got to be oppressed' almost lets the ma...

This is unworthy of the talents of all involved.

@JDavis4U I think you will find that the word is 'hoping' - with pp in the middle it refers to jumping on one leg!

@batguanokasa Twit, the Ugric languages are not of Indo-European origin but share close foundations with each other. The most influential of these on the others' growth is Hungarian which, in its own language is 'Magyar' hence my original comment. Estonian is also closely related to these two....

@andro89 God Save the Queen but the Thatcher creature should burn in Hell!

Season Finale? This is the final episode of the entire Voyager sequence and is 99% of a brilliant finale. Why not 100%? well, that's because it finishes too soon and we never hear what happened to the crew when they reached earth. It should have been the next film but that never happened. What...

@ndbone08 When I am in the audience I applaud enthusiastically at the END and will also cheer if the performance warrants it but I do not cause disturbance during the performance as that is, i think, discourteous to the performers and to my fellow audience members. We clearly approach this from...

@pure4indigo It is the Prelude to Charpentier's setting of the 'Te Deum'

This is great but French and Saunders' version is a work of genius!

@HenrikF666 What she says is "Funny Grandma', Dick - i.e. the third film would be called 'Funny Grandma' and the compère's name is Dick.

The UK touring production has changed this song to 'You won't succeed in (fill in blank) if you haven't got a STAR.

What is the pianist playing - it only seems to bear a passing resemblance to the score. I know that this is a school production but the kids deserve better support than this.

It's a great pity that she is always under the note - someone should have corrected that in her singing

@goldengma You really should listen to Beethoven's original - it has survived for nearly 200years and will go on being performed when this trivialisation is forgotten. This may be great fun but it lacks depth.

This should be 'Don't tell Mama'. 'Mein Herr' was written for the film, not for the stage production.

I have seen the complete Ring eight times in opera houses and have four recordings including this one but no other comes close to the beauty, excitement , power and emotion of this recording. Sir Georg, Madame Nilsson, VPO and the Decca recording team in the Sofiensaal have never been and probab...

Is it likely that a Lord Chancellor of England would have such a strong regional accent?

@metacarple It may be but it is more likely in 12/8 or 4/4/ with triplets but it makes no difference as 6/8/ is a duple time and 12/8 is a quadruple time and what we need is a triple time. Although 3/4/ and 6/8/ are close mathematically they are not musically. If you listen to 'America' from We...

The final chorus sounds as though it is being driven with the handbrake on!

@szqsk8 That is Michael Crawford,who starred in 'Barnum' in London not Andrew Lloyd Weber, who had nothing to do with it.

We must have seen this on a bad night - it was one of the most boring nights I have ever spent in the opera house.