Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/11

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Subject: [Leica] For You Opera Fans...
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:02:12 -0500

> I was just sent this link along with the following comment:
> 
> "Last month at the central market  in Valencia, Spain, opera singers 
> disguised
> as shopkeepers were selling  produce at the various stalls there. Suddenly
> Verdi's Il Travatore starts  playing over the loudspeakers & they burst  
> into
> song.  None of the  shoppers has a clue what's going on. Sort of like  
> candid
> camera but  completely charming."
> 
> Photographically speaking, I was surprised at how many people were able to
> pull a camera out of their pocket or purse to capture the event.
> 
> Click on this & watch and enjoy the music and the faces in the crowd.  
> There's
> a bit of La Traviata in there, too.
> 
> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds8ryWd5aFw)
> 
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Dick
> 
> 
> 
Would have been great to fool the singers and have a bunch of the people in
the crowd be professional dancers who had a whole thing choreographed and
have it happen like it seemed silliliy spontaneous like a musical. Oliver.

Mark William Rabiner





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