No more Rice Krispies...
A couple of evenings ago, Drake and I listened to the season preview CD that Seattle Opera sends out to its subscribers. The 2007-2008 season kicks off (as most SO seasons do) with Wagner, specifically, The Flying Dutchman, which we've never seen.
Another opera this season that we haven't seen before is Pagliacci. However, I am (unfortunately) quite familiar with its most famous aria, Vesti la giubba, from those darn 1960's Rice Krispies commercials. Madison Avenue took this beautiful and tragic aria and applied those ridiculous lyrics to it:
"No more Rice Krispies... we're all out of Rice Krispies..."
It's a truly awful association because it's such a dramatic moment in the opera and the last thing you want to start thinking about is Rice Krispies. I shouldn't even be blogging about it for fear of further cementing this into my mind. Or perhaps this will be some kind of final purge.
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I volunteer at my local classical-music radio station (WUSF-FM, Tampa), and was at the studio when they were broadcasting highlights of the late Luciano Pavarotti's singing career, and, of course, "Vesti la giubba" was one.
I have been known among all my high school classmates as "the Krispies Kid", because I sang my own parody of that very commercial. I started doing that as a freshman, and was asked to sing it at every annual high school variety show for the next 4 years; and was even asked to come back after I had graduated, to sing it again. So, there are essentially 8 graduating classes who know me and my rendition of that commercial. When I run into any graduates, they always exclaim: "Rice Krispies!" before even saying "Hello".