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« Reply #900 on: 22:18:16, 28-08-2008 » |
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Tom in Rakes Progress - in the end, he has difficulty finding his marbles.
Tom-Oh!
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« Reply #901 on: 22:19:44, 28-08-2008 » |
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Well, for losing something, surely Barbarina's L'ho perduta, me meschina from Figaro has to be the definitive example? And for lost people, the first operatic characters that come to mind are Hansel and Gretel  |
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« Reply #902 on: 22:25:06, 28-08-2008 » |
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With reference to Tommo's less obvious example, there must be a few examples of metaphorical loss of way or of dignity. I can't think of an example off-hand - but surely there are a few instances in opera where somebody exclaims that they are "perduto"?
(And now I've thought of one: Desdemona declares herself "perduta" when Otello tells her that Cassio is dead, shortly before killing her.)
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« Reply #903 on: 22:26:25, 28-08-2008 » |
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Tom in Rakes Progress - in the end, he has difficulty finding his marbles.
Well, I just lob 'em up...   |
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« Reply #904 on: 22:31:48, 28-08-2008 » |
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(And now I've thought of one: Desdemona declares herself "perduta" when Otello tells her that Cassio is dead, shortly before killing her.)
As well as being 'lost', what did she lose earlier in Act II?! |
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« Reply #905 on: 22:32:13, 28-08-2008 » |
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A hankerchief!
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« Reply #906 on: 22:39:42, 28-08-2008 » |
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A handkerchief!
Who else loses a handkerchief, which proves to be her undoing? |
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« Reply #907 on: 22:44:22, 28-08-2008 » |
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I suspect you're thinking of Lisa in La sonnambula, who (through no fault of her own) loses her hanky in a strange man's bedroom in the middle of the night.
Valencienne in The Merry Widow loses her fan - but somehow in the end it all turns out to her advantage, unlike Angelotti in Tosca, whose loss of a fan leads to at least three deaths!
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« Reply #908 on: 22:45:52, 28-08-2008 » |
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I suspect you're thinking of Lisa in La sonnambula, who loses her hanky in a strange man's room. Never a wise move! Unlike Angelotti in Tosca, whose loss of a fan leads to at least three deaths!
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« Reply #909 on: 22:50:09, 28-08-2008 » |
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There's also Cinderella, who depending on whether you're listening to Rossini or Massenet, loses a bracelet or a glass slipper.
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« Reply #910 on: 23:10:26, 28-08-2008 » |
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Very good.
Who is handed some lost papers which, if he'd only stopped to look at them, would have revealed his wife's adultery?
Who loses a ring? A spoon? A key?
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« Reply #911 on: 23:13:37, 28-08-2008 » |
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Who loses a ring? LOADS of opera characters Though when I say "lose" that's really translated as "having it nabbed by somebody who's feeling cleverer that day". Am I right in guessing it's not that ring you're aiming at? |
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« Reply #912 on: 23:14:41, 28-08-2008 » |
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Am I right in guessing it's not that ring you're aiming at?
This is not a German opera! |
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« Reply #913 on: 23:17:41, 28-08-2008 » |
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The one with the papers that would have revealed the wife's adultery... that's Stiffelio, in the opera of the same name.
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« Reply #914 on: 23:18:43, 28-08-2008 » |
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The one with the papers that would have revealed the wife's adultery... that's Stiffelio, in the opera of the same name.
Yep. You'd have thought that when he noticed his wife's ring was missing that something was up, wouldn't you?! |
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