Nice! Is she actually any good?
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Angel Blue:
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You're my wife now.

Well, now I know which nightmare I'll be having tonight!

A dimly-lit cave & a bearskinsexiness personified
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Sure. Everything sexy is sexual, but not everything sexual is sexy.

Think of Baudelaire and all that noir. It is both sensual and sexual.

Why? His music is hardly primitive.

You associate Wagner with cavemen? I like that.

Maybe it does. My point here is, Casanova is sexy. A caveman many be sexual, but he's not sexy.

Why doesn't urbanity imply sensuality, as well?

Urbanity can be sexy, too.
That's what I meant. "Sexy" implies the combination of sex and urbanity.

is supremely sexual, though not exactly sexy, which implies urbanity and elegance.
What exactly does this mean? I don't feel that way at all. Urbanity can be sexy, too. Elegance maybe not. But I still don't understand. Could you please elaborate further?

Well, act two of
Tristan und Isolde
is supremely
sexual
, though not exactly
sexy
, which implies urbanity and elegance.
But then Tristan's monologue in act three is of course
anti
-sexual.

Not for me. Men for me.

Women?

What makes the world go round?

They're awful, aren't they - no idea what women see in them

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There are soooo many.
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'Sexy' encloses both sexual and sensual for me in this context.
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I don't necessarily think of '
humping
'
in this context.
Men

Maybe at this point we should just defer the discussion to this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYn99lu6utE&t=6s

I'm sure some brilliant regisseur has already staged a version of
Don Giovanni
where the title character goes out humping the Commendatore - but Eva's saying the Commendatore scene is
not
sexy.

What is sexy about that? Are we talking about humping or sensuality or both?

What I mean is that the love and sadness experienced in Figaro is more universal; most of us have relationships, feel strongly for other people, and experiences issues with trust/infidelity. Most of us aren't heartless rakes that leave a trail of broken hearts in our wake and are then divinely punished. All of the "emotion" in DG comes from characters reacting to the protagonist, so we see them with more distance and objectivity rather than empathy; while all of the emotion in Figaro come directly from a cast full of protagonists we're invited to empathize with.
In a sense, from the audience's perspective, the characters in DG are more representative of emotional states while those in Figaro seem to be experiencing the flux of emotional states. It's the difference between Spenserian and Shakespearean; both approaches can be done well or poorly, and I think both DG and Figaro are done as well as they can be done. Cosi and Flute are quite curious mixtures of the two.
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The former is, obviously, on a more empathetically human level, so the characters feel more human to us.
I don't know what "more human" means. I'd say the people in Figaro just have more specific characteristics.

I don't think it's aesthetically a problem because you have enough going on around him, especially musically. Hamlet develops psychologically but his physical inertia serves as a contrast to that; perhaps DG is closer to Coriolanus, a character who doesn't psychologically develop, but whose actions set in motion the turmoil around him.
the difference between the people in Figaro and the people in DG.
They're different kinds of characters to begin with, and because Figaro is more about love where lust serves as a foil to that, DG is more about lust where divine intervention serves as the foil to that. The former is, obviously, on a more empathetically human level, so the characters feel more human to us. I don't think the lack of empathetic humanism hurts DG any more than it hurts, say, 2001:ASO; it serves a purpose in both. DG is just more of an outside-in opera.
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