There is an advert for British Airways in the UK which has an
adapted version of the Flower Duet from Lakme as its theme. The
graphics throughout feature a woman standing looking at the camera.
The voice-over at the end states something like "Carmen wouldn't
travel by any other air-line". If anyone else has seen this ad and
thinks I've missed the point, could you tell me why BA has used
the name Carmen rather than Lakme? I hope it's a better reason than
that Carmen is a better known opera character; otherwise why make the
connection to opera at all?
Kathy
> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 23:48:20 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Theresa Muir <tmuir@broadway.GC.cuny.edu>
> To: James Parsons <jap614f@mail.smsu.edu>
> Cc: "MLIST (Musicology List)" <mlist@ucdavis.edu>
> Subject: Re: (Mis?)appropriations of the Ninth
> Reply-to: tmuir@broadway.GC.cuny.edu
>
> On the sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond" (Yes I watch it! Gotta problem
> with that?) a particularly orgiastic iteration of "Ode to Joy" is used for
> the program theme. The running joke of the program is Raymond's invasive
> family. The theme is heard while he and his wife frantically try to
> conceal their presence from an advancing invasion of his mother, father,
> and brother.
>
> F A E
> Theresa Muir, Ph.D.
> TMUIR@EMAIL.GC.CUNY.EDU
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