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« Reply #615 on: 16:26:08, 15-05-2008 » |
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Tell us about operas set in Africa (credibly or otherwise) 
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« Reply #616 on: 16:28:54, 15-05-2008 » |
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Is Meyerbeer's L'Africaine a false friend here? I don't know it, and the heroine clearly hails from there, but I don't know if any scenes are set there?
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« Reply #617 on: 20:35:30, 15-05-2008 » |
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From what I remember the first half of L'AFRICAINE is set in Lisbon, where the aforementioned African Queen is being held a semi-hostage. The tables are turned in the second half, which is not set on the African mainland, but on an unspecified island in the Indian Ocean... which is certainly very near Africa  There are lots more African settings, especially if you fix your attention on the Maghreb part of the continent An obvious one about two warring African states, for example.... so well-known it's hardly worth big points, but you might get a brass phthathing for it. |
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« Reply #618 on: 21:30:20, 15-05-2008 » |
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Tell us about operas set in Africa (credibly or otherwise) Dido & Aeneas |
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« Reply #619 on: 21:43:01, 15-05-2008 » |
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<dips toe in unfamiliar waters desperate not to look foolish>
Er, Aida?
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« Reply #620 on: 22:08:15, 15-05-2008 » |
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Bravo, bravo, there are lots more... don't be so shy, it's like you're treading on Glass...
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« Reply #621 on: 22:13:30, 15-05-2008 » |
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Akhnaten, treading on glass. Les Troyens.
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« Reply #622 on: 22:20:27, 15-05-2008 » |
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'The Italian Girl in Algiers' would seem to qualify...
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« Reply #623 on: 22:28:06, 15-05-2008 » |
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Giulio Cesare ( in Egypt )
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« Reply #624 on: 22:44:09, 15-05-2008 » |
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Good stuff, and LES TROYENS subject-matter leads on to a whole Trojan-Horseful of other operas...
Thinking more laterally, maybe someone can whistle-up another opera set in Egypt? Roll your trouser-leg up and you might find the answer tattooed on your knee? Got it? Ta-daaaaa! Ta-daaaaa! Ta-daaaa!
And how about a Meyerbeer opera written in Italian?
I'll chip in with one of my own hobby-horses... Stephen Storace's now-lost DIDO, QUEEN OF CARTHAGE (1794). But there's yet another opera on the topic of the lovelorn queen??
The operatic version of Carry On Cleo is, of course...
Double points available for a story that was set by both Handel and Cavalli....
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« Reply #625 on: 22:50:00, 15-05-2008 » |
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And how about a Meyerbeer opera written in Italian?
Might that be 'Il crociato in Egitto', RT? |
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« Reply #626 on: 00:12:19, 16-05-2008 » |
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Rossini’s Mosè in Egitto
Act II of Donizetti’s Dom Sébastien, roi de Portugal is set in Morocco
Massenet’s Thaïs is set in the Egyptian desert and Alexandria; his Cléopâtre is also set in Egypt, unsurprisingly, as is Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra. Mozart – Die Zauberflöte (Egypt)
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« Reply #627 on: 10:18:35, 16-05-2008 » |
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The Egyptian Helen and its all knowing seashell. I don't know the music, and from what I can tell of the plot, I am not sure I want to. But it is certainly set in North Africa.
I am pondering over Carry on Cleo. We have already had Handel, courtesy of Bobby Z.
Nothing much in sub-Saharan Africa, is there?
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« Reply #628 on: 10:25:56, 16-05-2008 » |
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Double points available for a story that was set by both Handel and Cavalli....
They both set Xerses, opening with an aria Ombra mai fu, (I resorted to looking up the Viking Opera Guide to find that out) but I didn't know that was set in Egypt. |
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« Reply #629 on: 11:26:28, 16-05-2008 » |
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And I was listening last night to Weber's Oberon. It is such a farrago that I overlooked that the hero and heroine and their respective sidekicks are abducted by corsairs and are slaves in, I think, Tunis or at any rate the southern coast of the Med.
And for an opera which requires an entire singing cast of sub-Saharan African descent, albeit set in Dixie, there is Porgy and Bess.
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