ORFEO - Beautiful Nonsense

 This last wasted Corona epidemic year forced me to spend time on Youtube and so learned to appreciate baroque music and theater. Music was an elite entertainment, elegant and graceful, abstract and unrelated to the daily misery of our lives. Look how the girls dance! I started to love opera, like my father z"l. The small Jewish community of Jaszbereny produced several famous opera singers - baritone and bass - and we had their opera albums and vinyl long plays. As a child, I was amazed at their exaggerated makeup, and their "operetta hero" fantasy dresses.

 In his times good music was a precious resource, they had to travel 60 kilometers to Budapest to go to the opera. Free music like this youtube was a luxury unimaginable. Only in the High Holidays one of the opera singers performed in the synagogue, his powerful bass reciting the sacred texts, and that was memorable event to comment for months ahead. I must be turning senile.