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Oct. 23rd, 2011 03:11 pmOn Friday, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
obopolsk and I went to go see ANNA BOLENA: THE OPERA. (I suspect the Met's thought process was essentially 'quick, cash in on the Tudor craze before it's all gone!')
TO be fair, even with the change in Henry Percy's name to Ricardo Percy and Anne Boleyn's 'famous mad scene,' I think it was probably more historically accurate than the Showtime version.
( If you want to know the nineteenth-century operatic version of Tudor history, read on! )
obopolsk: Well, I didn't really like any of those people, but then again, it is the Tudor Court.
BECCA: Considering it's the Tudor Court, they really could have been much more unlikeable than they were!
(Also, I kind of want Anne Boleyn/Jane Seymour fic now.)
obopolsk and I went to go see ANNA BOLENA: THE OPERA. (I suspect the Met's thought process was essentially 'quick, cash in on the Tudor craze before it's all gone!')TO be fair, even with the change in Henry Percy's name to Ricardo Percy and Anne Boleyn's 'famous mad scene,' I think it was probably more historically accurate than the Showtime version.
( If you want to know the nineteenth-century operatic version of Tudor history, read on! )
obopolsk: Well, I didn't really like any of those people, but then again, it is the Tudor Court.BECCA: Considering it's the Tudor Court, they really could have been much more unlikeable than they were!
(Also, I kind of want Anne Boleyn/Jane Seymour fic now.)
