Pat Benatar and Big Wild Opera?
August 30, 2009
What’s the connection? OK, Big Wild Opera Fan, here goes …
Lady Benatar’s coolest album was entitled ‘Harden My Heart’. Around the same time, the group Quarterflash released a song with the same name. The chorus of the Quarterflash song is …
I’m gonna harden my heart
I’m gonna swallow my tears
I’m gonna turn and leave you
In AO’s 2nd Big Show of the season, Eugene Onegin, the first Russian opera produced in Alaska, this is what the beautiful character, Tatiana, does after getting the major ‘blow off’ from Eugene Onegin.
The opera ends with Eugene on his knees, filled with regret, begging and crying for Tatiana to love him again.
Sorry Eugene, you gave love a bad name and Tatiana got filled with the spirit of the legendary Lady of Rock, the spirit of Pat Benatar!
