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« Reply #495 on: 09:39:07, 15-04-2008 » |
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Il Grande Inquistore himself. Not ours of course, Verdi's.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #496 on: 09:39:58, 15-04-2008 » |
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Tchaikovsky's Iolanta. Though she is of course cured by the end, thanks to the miracle of love  |
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« Reply #497 on: 09:41:03, 15-04-2008 » |
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Il Cieco - Iris's father in Mascagni's opera
Archibaldo - the king in Montemezzi's L'amore dei tre re
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« Reply #498 on: 09:41:50, 15-04-2008 » |
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Oedipus (take your pick of which composer's!) after putting out his eyes with Jocasta's golden pin...
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« Reply #499 on: 10:01:19, 15-04-2008 » |
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Oedipus (take your pick of which composer's!) after putting out his eyes with Jocasta's golden pin...
And of course Tiresias in the same story. I know the Enescu version. There's Stravinsky. Someone mentioned a third a while back. |
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« Reply #500 on: 10:03:57, 15-04-2008 » |
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Are there any others who, like the characters mentioned in Iris and La Gioconda, are known simply as "the blind person" rather than by a name?
(That's not a leading question, incidentally. I really would be interested to know.)
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« Reply #501 on: 10:07:09, 15-04-2008 » |
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Impressive responses so far, but there's one very obvious one nobody's mentioned yet; standard rep, bass.
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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
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« Reply #502 on: 10:15:48, 15-04-2008 » |
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Other than the Grand Inquisitor, whom Don Basilio mentioned?
Oh! Timur in Turandot.
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« Reply #503 on: 10:18:40, 15-04-2008 » |
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Arkel in Pelleas ?
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« Reply #504 on: 10:21:19, 15-04-2008 » |
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There's also the blind ballad singer in Gloriana and Madelon in Andrea Chénier.
And Samson, after Delilah and the Philistines have finished with him...
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« Reply #505 on: 10:30:36, 15-04-2008 » |
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In The Silver Tassie, the wife-beating baritone is blinded in the war. Can't remember his name... off to look it up...
...Teddy Foran.
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« Reply #506 on: 10:41:46, 15-04-2008 » |
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Mention blind characters in opera!
La Cieca, Gioconda's blind mother. I was listening to this the other day. It is nice to have a proper contralto in an opera. La Cieca's aria ends up with the Big Tune Ponchielli uses in the prelude. |
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« Reply #507 on: 10:46:38, 15-04-2008 » |
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Very good,e veryone!  It was indeed Timur I was worried had been overlooked. La Cieca, Gioconda's blind mother.
I was listening to this the other day. It is nice to have a proper contralto in an opera. La Cieca's aria ends up with the Big Tune Ponchielli uses in the prelude. Which recording, Don B? I think La Gioconda is a super opera, with some great characters. Am looking forward to the Holland Park production in the summer. |
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« Reply #508 on: 10:57:26, 15-04-2008 » |
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Eisenstein's lawyer in FLEDERMAUS is Dr Blind - although he isn't blind.
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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perfect wagnerite
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« Reply #509 on: 10:58:02, 15-04-2008 » |
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I have a vague recollection that Madame Sosostris in The Midsummer Marriage is blind, but I could be wrong.
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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