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« Reply #75 on: 12:32:39, 22-05-2007 » |
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I guess Handel has more 'tempest' arias than any other composer! Anything in Mozart and Verdi?
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« Reply #76 on: 12:42:56, 22-05-2007 » |
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Re the STIFFELIO storm: perhaps you're confusing this work with its alternative (revised) version, AROLDO, which does contain a 'storm' and 'crackling thunder' in Act 4.
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« Reply #77 on: 14:06:24, 22-05-2007 » |
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Elettra's Act 1 aria in IDOMENEO carries on from the storm. I haven't got the words, but in the music the storm is raging on. (With due respect to a distinguished contributor, that is one bit of IDOMENEO that can't be called "musical mogadon.")
Lucy in THE BEGGARS OPERA sings "I'm like a ship in a tempest tost" sending up all those simile arias in Handel, of which I cannot now remember a single one.
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« Reply #78 on: 16:44:46, 22-05-2007 » |
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Re the STIFFELIO storm: perhaps you're confusing this work with its alternative (revised) version, AROLDO, which does contain a 'storm' and 'crackling thunder' in Act 4.
 Sadly you're overestimating my knowledge of Verdi, but someone said this production did cannibalise "Aroldo" so maybe that's a bit they nicked. There's a scene in "Pelleas and Melisande" where he tells her there's going to be a storm that night, but it would be a stretch to call it an aria. |
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« Reply #79 on: 17:05:11, 22-05-2007 » |
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Thanks, harpy, for the explanation. Any metaphorical tempests in COSI and TROVATORE? |
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« Reply #80 on: 17:08:16, 22-05-2007 » |
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"Come scoglio". There's a metaphorical volcano in "Cosi" as well - perhaps we could do those next (if there are any others)?
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« Reply #81 on: 17:12:56, 22-05-2007 » |
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'Come scoglio', yes! A tempestuous heart in TROVATORE? Re the 'noisy' LEAR storm: is it only the storm in the score of this opera that is 'noisy'?  Curiously, Ades's opening is too feeble for a tempest, as I remember the music from only one hearing (or am I mistaken?). |
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« Reply #82 on: 17:14:17, 22-05-2007 » |
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Re IGI's Bizet storm: Act 2 of THE PEARLFISHERS?
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« Reply #83 on: 17:20:59, 22-05-2007 » |
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Re the 'noisy' LEAR storm: is it only the storm in the score of this opera that is 'noisy'? If you'd seen it you'd know! He does set himself quite a task to make something (even) noisier than what's come before, but manages it pretty well. I think on the whole it's a pretty good piece of work (has anyone heard any of Reimann's other operas? I haven't) - the last scene, which is mostly accompanied by unison violins spinning out an anguished chromatic line behind the voices, is extremely powerful I think, especially after all the dark and dense (and noisy) music of which most of the rest of the opera consists. The Fool singing his rhymes to little chorale melodies is also a memorable touch. |
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« Reply #84 on: 17:31:39, 22-05-2007 » |
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Curiously, Ades's opening is too feeble for a tempest, as I remember the music from only one hearing (or am I mistaken?).
No Parsifal, I'd agree, at least from my memory of the first production. I didn't see the latest (revised) one. I was expecting something that would terrify the life out of me, and then we got this sort of squawl! But I know that that was the last bit of the opera originally to be written and was done in a hurry. I would have expected the revised storm music to pack more of a punch. Did it? |
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« Reply #85 on: 21:21:30, 22-05-2007 » |
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A tempestuous heart in TROVATORE?
Conte di Luna's aria 'Il balen del suo sorriso'. Yes to Bizet's Pearl Fishers, btw. Following her appearance in the Musical Connections, Eboli's aria 'O don fatale' is the subject of a little comparison/ game here (bottom of the page): http://handelmania.libsyn.com/index.php?post_year=2006&post_month=05It takes a while to download (the file plays for 75 mins!) and you have 15 Ebolis to try and identify. I managed a fairly feeble seven, most of whom appeared in the second half, so don't give up hope! Some great singing though, for anyone who enjoys this aria. |
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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 #86 on: 21:31:48, 25-05-2007 » |
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With a public holiday weekend coming up (in the UK, at least)...
... tell us about some operas where public holidays feature in the plot? (Since we did "Christmas" and "Easter" holidays not so long ago, let's give those a rest... there are plenty more to keep us amused...)
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« Reply #87 on: 21:39:25, 25-05-2007 » |
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With a public holiday weekend coming up (in the UK, at least)...
... tell us about some operas where public holidays feature in the plot? (Since we did "Christmas" and "Easter" holidays not so long ago, let's give those a rest... there are plenty more to keep us amused...)
Osud and Albert Herring come immediately to mind. And would the Gibichungs have got a day off for Gunther's wedding? |
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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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« Reply #88 on: 21:46:20, 25-05-2007 » |
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And would the Gibichungs have got a day off for Gunther's wedding? Bonus points for creativity and ingenuity with that one, PW!  |
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« Reply #89 on: 21:58:52, 25-05-2007 » |
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Bit of a public holiday going on in I Due Foscari, Act III where a regatta is held.
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