Still, twelve horses all used as matching teams would mean the possibility for six different colors of horses, and I don't think you'd need that many variations to put on most operas?? Maybe a set of ethereal fairy horses, one strong heroic horse for the tenor, some villainous-looking horses if the antagonist shows up in a coach or something?
And I had no idea there was an opera about evil Anabaptists?? That is absolutely bizarre. And now I'm picturing Cesar as just playing one of the peasants or Anabaptists, and no one comments on the fact that he's a horse. Or maybe one of the characters just rides a horse around the entire time??
That is scarily in line with Erik's sense of humor and dramatic nature, and I could certainly see that as a plausible option. I wonder how, in the normal run of that opera sans grasshoppers hopping jolly high, they managed the special effect of the firey explosion, given the technology at the time?
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Date: 2020-11-13 02:30 pm (UTC)And I had no idea there was an opera about evil Anabaptists?? That is absolutely bizarre. And now I'm picturing Cesar as just playing one of the peasants or Anabaptists, and no one comments on the fact that he's a horse. Or maybe one of the characters just rides a horse around the entire time??
That is scarily in line with Erik's sense of humor and dramatic nature, and I could certainly see that as a plausible option. I wonder how, in the normal run of that opera sans grasshoppers hopping jolly high, they managed the special effect of the firey explosion, given the technology at the time?