{"id":2379,"date":"2012-04-23T10:21:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T10:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2379"},"modified":"2012-04-23T10:21:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T10:21:09","slug":"donizetti-and-the-fifth-element","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2379","title":{"rendered":"Donizetti and the Fifth Element"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA VOA report on opera singer Beverly Sills brought my attention to a piece shown in the movie The Fifth Element. Now I know it wasn't just a made up piece solely for that movie.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IoW_ZOfsrzA\" id=\"ltVideoYouTube\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IoW_ZOfsrzA\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAcess\" value=\"sameDomain\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"playerMode=embedded\" \/><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is actually partly from Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, the Mad Scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NYm7oJXVeks\" id=\"ltVideoYouTube\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NYm7oJXVeks\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAcess\" value=\"sameDomain\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"playerMode=embedded\" \/><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd I also found out that there are plenty of full length opera videos on youtube.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tlhbFk2GbcY\" id=\"ltVideoYouTube\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tlhbFk2GbcY\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAcess\" value=\"sameDomain\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"playerMode=embedded\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A VOA report on opera singer Beverly Sills brought my attention to a piece shown in the movie The Fifth Element. Now I know it wasn't just a made up piece solely for that movie. It is actually partly from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2379\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}