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« Reply #735 on: 12:04:28, 29-07-2008 » |
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Siegfried's Journey up that creek without a paddle.
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« Reply #736 on: 12:05:36, 29-07-2008 » |
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By ship, there's the Flying Dutchman, of course, and Vasco da Gama's voyage in Meyerbeer's L'Africaine. At the start of Otello (Verdi's as opposed to Rossini's which never leaves Venice) Otello arrives by ship at Cyprus.
Doesn't a bicycle make an appearance in Fedora?
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« Reply #737 on: 12:06:16, 29-07-2008 » |
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But how about journeys? Have we had that before?
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« Reply #738 on: 12:08:10, 29-07-2008 » |
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The forced journey of Katerina Ismailova & Sergey in Lady Muck
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« Reply #739 on: 12:09:22, 29-07-2008 » |
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Verdi's I Due Foscari features a regatta with gondola races in the final act.
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« Reply #741 on: 12:10:48, 29-07-2008 » |
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The governness in The Turn of the Screw sometimes arrives by train, but I think it may be a coach in the original?
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« Reply #742 on: 12:14:18, 29-07-2008 » |
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A journey by train.
Max & Anita escape to America on the same train under which Daniello's been crushed to death - as the Station Clock opens to reveal Jonny & His Jazzmen to play the curtain down. The train's hooter is notated in the score as they leave. It's like Arnold Schoenberg meets THE MARX BROTHERS GO WEST [JONNY SPIELT AUF] |
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« Reply #743 on: 12:24:03, 29-07-2008 » |
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Nicholas Maw's Sophie's Choice includes a scene set on the train to Auschwitz.
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« Reply #744 on: 12:29:50, 29-07-2008 » |
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A journey by train. Any operatic version of Anna Karenina must surely involve a one-way journey courtesy of a train. harpy128, the current Glyndebourne production of The Turn of the Screw does indeed feature the Governess arriving by train. The backdrop to her journey is a film of the lineside at the Bluebell Railway. |
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« Reply #745 on: 12:47:36, 29-07-2008 » |
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Blomdahl's Aniara involves a journey on a space-ship.
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« Reply #746 on: 12:47:53, 29-07-2008 » |
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Yes, that's probably the one I was thinking of, Lady_DHS
There is a sort of boat chase in La Gioconda as performed at Holland Park, but again I don't know whether it's in the original. They are definitely ON a boat in act II but it ain't going anywhere.
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« Reply #747 on: 12:59:17, 29-07-2008 » |
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There is a sort of boat chase in La Gioconda as performed at Holland Park,
And quite right too - there's supposed to be a chase between the two boats. I do hope the tenor (it turns I know him!) dives off the burning barque as it sinks under the waves, hotly followed by a plunging Gioconda? I mean, a few cardboard waves and some dry ice, sounds easy enough, eh? I'm going on Aug 7th. |
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« Reply #748 on: 13:12:04, 29-07-2008 » |
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Train: I was thinking of Turn of the Screw, yes. BB's music does seem very geared towards train-ness there - but does anyone know whether that was what he actually intended? I guess James assumed a coach... And the Sophie's Choice example is good too - had forgotten that! Plane: I think Nixon counts. It's a very celebrated 'arrival', and the music vividly suggests the journey's final stages, eh?  |
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« Reply #749 on: 13:23:10, 29-07-2008 » |
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Does the Duet from Lakme count as a plane journey? Isn't that set on a plane?  I'm surprised no librettists have used this more... an environment in which you're strapped into your seat and can't go anywhere, and are forced to listen to what your neighbour wishes to say would have some strong dramatic uses... It would also be an easy scene-change in any theatre, a row of plane-seats front-of-stage is an instant "plane interior" recognisable to everyone - and behind it you can drop the curtain and reset for the next scene once they've arrived (or whatever). It would also be an excellent location to set monologues... up in the air, away from whatever troubles plague you on the ground, is a very credible place for characters to think about their own position with a clearer head. Well, I always find that, anyhow |
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