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Originally Posted by VipertheSniper
You mean like silent movies?
How about ballet? Great music, no singing, just dancing.
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There is some wonderful ballet music which I like to listen to, as long as I must not watching the dancers, at least the male ones.
There is wonderful opera music from preludes, for example, but as soon as they start sending the singers on stage it's show over for me. That's true for some pieces from Wagner (Lohengrin for example, I think it is the introduction, this piece of most fragile beauty that Chaplin used when dancing with the globe in Great Dictator) as well as for Puccini, for example, of whom I especially like this collection that includes preludes and intermezzi from La Villi, Edgar and Manon Lescaut.
http://www.amazon.de/Puccini-Orchest...9204810&sr=8-1
My father participated in that recording, from 1983. Do cooking in the kitchen, have a glass of good red wine, and this CD on headphones - unbeatable Italian combo!
Opera may or may not feature beautiful voices. It't just that I do not like the way in which voices are used for singing in classical music. Too artificial.