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19 Jun 2008 08:34 am
Why Rugby Is Like Opera
That's what you get when you switch your sports writers with your culture writers as the Guardian just did. One former rugby player now sports writer - admittedly French - had an epiphany:
Talking afterwards to the tenor Jonas Kaufmann, who played Cavaradossi,
I came to the conclusion that there is a parallel between what you feel
during a top-class rugby match and what an artist feels on stage - and
it's not just the roar of the crowd. The people who are watching
influence how you behave: they were viewing Kaufmann and driving him
forward, just as they used to inspire me. I could empathise with
Kaufmann's total concentration on the performance, and the way he had
to become one with the orchestra, who gave him the power to go beyond
the norm. There is a physical aspect to opera, certainly; but more than
that, on stage you see what in rugby we call "automatisms" - where you
become conditioned to move and act by pure instinct. I had a sense of
two completely different worlds coming together.
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