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Excellent postings from all  The African-based story set by both Handel and Cavalli was about the legendary Roman general Scipio's military adventures in Carthage - entitled SCIPIONE in Handel's version and more Google-able as SCIPIONE AFRICANO by Cavalli. [Cavalli's version is remarkable for containing the earliest - and perhaps the only? - escape by parachute in an opera libretto. (Although Alexei in STORY OF A REAL MAN (Prokofiev) has bailed-out of his burning aircraft over enemy lines, we only see him after he's landed - but it nearly counts).] |
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« Reply #631 on: 15:47:55, 16-05-2008 » |
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Meanwhile we haven't quite trodden on all the Glass... there's another set in Africa, but you have to think laterally to remember how...
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« Reply #632 on: 15:51:56, 16-05-2008 » |
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Meanwhile we haven't quite trodden on all the Glass... there's another set in Africa, but you have to think laterally to remember how...
Must be Ghandi, I imagine. |
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« Reply #633 on: 15:54:12, 16-05-2008 » |
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Indeedy-doodly, Don B - SATYGRAHA is set entirely in South Africa, although that's often forgotten (notably by the composer).
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« Reply #634 on: 17:16:19, 16-05-2008 » |
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I still can't see any tattoos on my knees.
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« Reply #635 on: 16:38:10, 23-05-2008 » |
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Following from the African operatic journey, can you tell us about operas set in Central or South America? |
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« Reply #636 on: 16:50:22, 23-05-2008 » |
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Gomez' I guarani?
Verdi Alzira
I could find some more in the reference books, but that will do for now.
I still can't find a tattoo on my knee.
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« Reply #637 on: 21:45:58, 23-05-2008 » |
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I Peruitani?
Sorry! I'll get me duffle-coat.
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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« Reply #638 on: 09:31:08, 24-05-2008 » |
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Rameau Les Indes Galantes, si je ne me trompe pas.
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« Reply #639 on: 11:15:14, 24-05-2008 » |
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2 posts back should have read:
Gomes Il Guarany
According to the reference book:
"after many complications - including (the tenor)'s capture and preparations for the pot by the cannibal Aimore Indians - the tenor and soprano are united... The opera is only as Brasilian as Verdi's Aida is Egyptian."
Carlos Gomes was himself the descendant of Guarnai Indians, apparently.
Then I see
Iain Hamilton The Royal Hunt of the Sun
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Villa Lobos Magdalena
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« Reply #640 on: 15:17:19, 24-05-2008 » |
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Well done, Don B.
I seem to recall that Placido Domingo recorded Gomes' Il Guarany. Verdi's Alzira is probably his least effective (and shortest) opera, but does contain some worthwhile music. I do enjoy Rameau's Les Indes galantes, with it's Peruvian volcano in the second entrée.
Any operas by Mexican composers, or set there featuring a key historical leader?
An opera/ operetta/ musical that takes a South American detour?
Another opera set in Peru after the Spanish conquest?
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« Reply #641 on: 17:04:26, 24-05-2008 » |
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An opera/ operetta/ musical that takes a South American detour?
Another opera set in Peru after the Spanish conquest?
O, without looking it up, Offenbach La Perichole. That doesn't take a detour: it is set in Lima. Does Offenbach's Robinson Crusoe skirt the Spanish Main? There is a delightful 1930s operetta called, IIRC, Jolly Roger, possibly by Thomas Dunhill. I remember it on R3 - My obsession is oppression of the poor and meek, O, my delight to bring the blush to the virgin cheek, O. Set on the Spanish Main. I better give some others a go. |
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« Reply #642 on: 17:14:36, 24-05-2008 » |
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O, without looking it up, Offenbach La Perichole.
That doesn't take a detour: it is set in Lima.
Very good - I hadn't thought of Offenbach. There's one in English, where the 'hero' sets out for Montevideo and, later, arrives in Eldorado... |
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« Reply #643 on: 17:48:49, 24-05-2008 » |
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« Reply #644 on: 14:21:04, 25-05-2008 » |
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There is a delightful 1930s operetta called, IIRC, Jolly Roger, possibly by Thomas Dunhill. I remember it on R3 - My obsession is oppression of the poor and meek, O, my delight to bring the blush to the virgin cheek, O. Set on the Spanish Main.
It is not by Dunhill. I can't find out who was the composer, but it was performed by Chichester Amateur Operatic Society in 1937  The song I remember, and I got the vocal score out of the library to play it, went: My obsession is oppression of the poor and meek, O, my delight to bring the blush to the virgin cheek, O Pretty creatures At my features You may justly shriek, O. I love to vex The fairer sex And to debauch the weak, O. Not sure where Robinson Crusoe is set. Not very pc. |
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