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« Reply #825 on: 22:05:35, 17-08-2008 » |
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(Wild guess to save honour of my chum Reiner and self - we have minor differences about Messiah, but what's a few oratorios between friends?)
Rossini's Otello?
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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 #826 on: 22:07:11, 17-08-2008 » |
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I admit to complete bafflement. My brain hurts (and not just because I've just dropped in at TOP); I didn't know any of the extracts.
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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 #827 on: 22:07:27, 17-08-2008 » |
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Rossini's Otello?
Correct! And there was me thinking we'd have to await Ruth's return from this evening's prom...  |
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« Reply #828 on: 22:09:49, 17-08-2008 » |
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Gosh, that makes me feel good. Is the connection Venice?
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« Reply #829 on: 22:26:59, 17-08-2008 » |
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and rerplies countied
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #830 on: 22:29:21, 17-08-2008 » |
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Gosh, that makes me feel good. Is the connection Venice?
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« Reply #831 on: 22:31:51, 17-08-2008 » |
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Ah well. I did wonder (and this is pure guesswork) whether there was a Shakespearean connection, and one of the extracts in English was from Troilus and Cressida, an opera I have never heard (extract 2 seemed the more likely). As a wild stab - Barber's Anthony and Cleopatra - another one I don't know - for the other English extract?
But then I thought that Shakespeare might be a bit too straightforward for one of IGI's fiendish quizzes.
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« Reply #832 on: 22:40:40, 17-08-2008 » |
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Aha! Troilus and Cressida and Antony and Cleopatra are the two extracts in English, pw, although Clip 2 was A & C. Clip 4 T & C in this case! Two very good operas, definitely worth getting to know. Antony and Cleopatra has a chequered history, scuppered from the first by Zeffirelli's grand production which tried to use all the technical apparatus available to him at the Met, but technology let them down. I have a recording from Menotti's Spoleto Festival, but it could really do with a modern recording; I'd love to see it staged. What a gorgeous melody at the end of that duet in Clip 2!
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« Reply #833 on: 22:46:13, 17-08-2008 » |
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And the other two are French, I seem to recall, which leaves the field wide open.
Hamlet, Romeo et Juliettte, Beatrice et Benedict....
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« Reply #834 on: 22:47:24, 17-08-2008 » |
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And the other two are French, I seem to recall, which leaves the field wide open.
Hamlet, Romeo et Juliettte, Beatrice et Benedict....
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And the other two are French, I seem to recall, which leaves the field wide open.
Hamlet, Romeo et Juliettte, Beatrice et Benedict....
One of those is correct (the other extract being in Italian!) Well, I'm sure it isn't Beatrice et Benedict (because I like to think I would have recognised it)  |
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« Reply #836 on: 23:04:13, 17-08-2008 » |
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Well, I'm sure it isn't Beatrice et Benedict (because I like to think I would have recognised it) No Berlioz in these clips! The two mystery operas left were premiered in 1799 and 1868. I see Ruth's just returned! |
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« Reply #837 on: 23:10:16, 17-08-2008 » |
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I'm on the bus!  I need to read back a couple of pages to see what you're all on about - though if it involves listening to clips, it'll have to wait until I'm back in the privacy of my own home (give me three quarters of an hour...) |
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« Reply #838 on: 00:18:03, 18-08-2008 » |
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Right. 11 concerts in 7 days and I'm putting off going to bed because of you lot  I'm pretty sure Don B was right when he guessed Hamlet. That's the French baritone/soprano duet in no.5. I'm stuck on your 1799 Italian one at No.3. It sounds rather like Haydn, but Wikipedia tells me he didn't write any more operas after 1791... |
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« Reply #839 on: 00:24:11, 18-08-2008 » |
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Could be Salieri's Falstaff then.
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