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#1: Jota (jota) on Jan 5, 2013

CARMEN!

You got it Jota! Decided to get a way from all that "modern" stuff.

Opera is my cup of tea!

Great. I'll see what else I can come up with.

Fun puzzle, Norma. Not an opera buff, but I got that one...

I'm afraid opera doesn't have much to offer in the way of images. Mostly a bunch of people just stand around and sing. Particularly while dying.

In re: #6 (last sentence)... sounds like some people's family reunions; or weddings. LOL

lmao, Thanks Adam!

That, too, Adam. :)

Fun puzzle, Norma, with a well-timed Aha! moment just before the finish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rjOrOt6wFw

Maria Callas, one pf opera's legends.Thank you, Teresa.

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Kristen, thanks for the clarification. I had no idea what the image was until I read your comment.

My dad gave me an LP boxed set of Carmen with Victoria de los Angeles when I was a kid half a century ago. I would come home from school every single day and listen to it from beginning to end while following all the words in the enclosed libretto. Today opera is not my favourite form of classical music, but I can still sing all of Carmen, and I still have that boxed set, along with my dad's last record player if I'd a mind to play it.

That's so neat that you hung on to the boxed set and the record player.

It's a later record player, but it was top-of-the-line 30 years ago. I tried to donate my dad's entire record collection, but universities are no longer accepting collections unless they're "important" (because they take up so much space) so I sold many of my dad's records to resellers but I still have probably 3,000 of them, and about 300 of my own. His are all classical, mine are a mix of classical, folk music, Gilbert and Sullivan, and some 60s pop including the Beatles and a Johnny Horton record I won on a radio quiz show when I was 12. The first things I ever bought for myself with my first summer job paycheque were two classical records, and I have those too. Funny how I can give away or donate books to make room for more, but I can't seem to let go of the records, even though I rarely play them.

I'm the kind of person who gets rid of stuff that later becomes valuable and keeps stuff that all you can say about it is that it takes up space. There's no accounting for what we become attached to.

So true. My mother was a pathological hoarder who kept absolutely everything, so I don't trust my own inclinations and every few years I go on a clearing-out frenzy. But I've still got those records.

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