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« Reply #90 on: 04:15:53, 26-05-2007 » |
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I couldn't think of any except "Albert Herring" but a quick Google (there's nothing like cheating) suggests that there are shoals of operas featuring May Day, none of which I have really heard of. "Merrie England" anyone?  |
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« Reply #91 on: 04:18:20, 26-05-2007 » |
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Oh, there's "La Juive" where the gentiles turn nasty at the beginning because Eleazar is working on a holiday. Not sure if it's an actual public holiday or just a Sunday.
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« Reply #92 on: 07:45:57, 26-05-2007 » |
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I suppose the Auto da fe in Don Carlos is a public holiday of sorts - it's certainly described in the libretto as a "festa"
Other candidates - Schmidt's Notre Dame (a fine work, much more to it than the intermezzo); and The Bartered Bride.
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« Reply #93 on: 07:46:27, 26-05-2007 » |
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Tippett's New Year.
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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« Reply #94 on: 09:11:34, 26-05-2007 » |
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Lots of excellent entries... we're still waiting on mentions in Janacek and Beethoven, amongst others....
(The Beethoven, of course, will hardly be difficult to list... but where is the holiday mentioned in the opera?)
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« Reply #95 on: 10:45:26, 26-05-2007 » |
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I PAGLIACCI takes place at the Assumption (Ferragosto as I believe the Italians call it: 15 August.)
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« Reply #96 on: 12:48:41, 26-05-2007 » |
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Lots of excellent entries... we're still waiting on mentions in Janacek and Beethoven, amongst others....
(The Beethoven, of course, will hardly be difficult to list... but where is the holiday mentioned in the opera?)
Of course - the King's birthday. Rocco's excuse for letting the prisoners out. |
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« Reply #97 on: 15:58:19, 26-05-2007 » |
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Il duolo della terra nel chiostro ancor ci segue, solo del cor la guerra in ciel si calmera! E la voce di Carlo! E Carlo Quinto! Mio padre! O ciel!
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« Reply #98 on: 16:49:20, 26-05-2007 » |
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St John the Baptist's Day in Meistersinger.
I am not a Janacek lover, but by elimination it must be Jenufa, as the one I don't know?
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« Reply #99 on: 17:29:47, 26-05-2007 » |
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St John the Baptist's Day in Meistersinger.
I am not a Janacek lover, but by elimination it must be Jenufa, as the one I don't know?
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« Reply #100 on: 17:54:22, 26-05-2007 » |
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Right again, Perfect Wagnerite.. the Janacek is HOUSE OF THE DEAD. The whole of Act II is a respite from the normal regime of the prison-camp, because of the "holiday" ("Praaaaaaaz-dnik! Praaaaz-dnik!") - although we never really learn which holiday it is. A Priest leads a procession of well-meaning visitors (and a ropey military band who keep missing their entries...) from the Town, who have brought presents for the convicts - in return for which the old lags stage "the Opera of Don Juan & Kedril" and "The Pantomime of the Beautiful Miller's Wife" for their guests.
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« Reply #101 on: 20:54:43, 26-05-2007 » |
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A Act 2 of Vaughan Williams' adorable HUGH THE DROVER takes place on May Day morning, when the chorus come in having gathered greenery to celebrate. Act 1 is on May Day Eve when the small town, based on Northleach, is having a fair.
B As THEODORA has been done at Glynebourne to great acclaim, and the king's birthday in FIDELIO counts, the opening words of THEODORA are:
'Tis Diocletian's natal day, Proclaim throughout the realms of Antioch a feast
by raping a religiously nonconformist lady.
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« Reply #102 on: 21:11:21, 26-05-2007 » |
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Has Hindemith's The Long Christmas Dinner been mentioned yet? or the festival of Dionysus in Strauss' Daphne?
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« Reply #103 on: 21:30:25, 26-05-2007 » |
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Hmmm, we shall wink generously at THE LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER despite a rubric that excluded Christmas and Easter holidays (as having been done ages ago) but point awarded - but you get double points for Egregious Eclecticism for a Feast of Dionysus, I think... so you end up doing ok  We are missing another Vaughan Williams, a obscurish Mussorgsky (but the title tells you all you need to know), and a Tchaikovsky (admittedly the Tchaik holiday isn't immediately apparent, but as a clue... it's the opening scene as the curtain rises). |
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« Reply #104 on: 21:46:49, 26-05-2007 » |
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Humperdinck's Konigskinder - Act II takes place on the Festival Day of Hella.
As to the Tchaikovsky, the first scene of the Maid of Orleans takes place during a festival - but not quite sure whether it counts as a public holiday
In similar vein, does the Guildhall scene in Gloriana count?
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