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You're quite right, Don B - G&S is entirely unknown in Russia, although we've taken a few footling steps in correcting this matter. You need translations full of bristling barbs and mischievous wit to carry them off in the non-English-speaking world, I think? I don't envy the person who has to translate "When you're lying awake, with a dismal headache, and repose is taboo'd by anxiety" into any other language at all!  |
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They say travel broadens the mind - but in many cases travel has made the mind not exactly broader, but thicker.
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« Reply #46 on: 00:09:26, 04-03-2007 » |
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Half a mo, reiner, let's look up the proggy.
Yes, there we are, "Broadcast on Radio 3".
Do you remember Agrippina's first aria? I am sure I recognized the music. Handel must have re-cycled it as something I've come across. Any ideas?
don ( italian lord ? ) can you advise the website address for that information and are we talking about the eno production, though I have to say, they mucked around with the stage setting to make it funny far more than the libretto lots of 'visual gags' B |
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« Reply #47 on: 09:55:22, 04-03-2007 » |
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The info was printed in my programme after the cast list. It will be the 1 March performance which will be broadcast, so my hands clapping will be among those audible.
Don in this context is far more lowly than Lord: it is the standard Italian title for a priest, hence Don Basilio, chaplain, music master and gossip. Personally I am certainly not the first two.
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A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #48 on: 10:00:56, 04-03-2007 » |
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I have listened to the first 30 secs of L'alma mia from Agrippina and the opening of Above measure is the pleasure from Semele.
They are not the same, but I think they have a distinctive melodic theme in common - more pronounced in Semele.
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« Reply #49 on: 10:21:40, 04-03-2007 » |
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Handel certainly plundered Agrippina liberally for later recycling. The theme from Agrippina's Act III aria turns up as the second movement of his Recorder Sonata No 6 (D-minor), although shorn of its middle section and da-capo.
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« Reply #50 on: 11:47:50, 04-03-2007 » |
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I meant to contact the eno about filming agrippina, now I have missed it, arse eh If nobody is going to do an official dvd of these productions perhaps 2 + 2 can equal 5 sometime eh http://www.cotswoldwireless.co.uk/englang//dvdorder.htmBUT ... of course... this being an eno run by some appointed arts director and not a commercial enterprise, you may get 'we would rather have no dvd on sale rather than an amateur one' instead of 'yea, may bring in some cash, bish bosh dosh eh rodney' response  |
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« Reply #52 on: 12:04:31, 11-04-2007 » |
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« Reply #53 on: 11:57:58, 12-05-2007 » |
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For anyone not watching the Eurovision tonight.
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #54 on: 12:02:48, 12-05-2007 » |
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Marvellous! Strongly recommended! A pity that they couldn't do a simultanous telecast.
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« Reply #55 on: 14:47:06, 12-05-2007 » |
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Thanks for the reminder, Tommo - almost forgot.
Would have been a bit of a dilemma for Sarah Connolly fans as she's performing at the Barbican tonight, but thanks to modern technology we can be in two places at once.
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« Reply #56 on: 14:49:10, 12-05-2007 » |
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I have been keeping an eye out for it, main reason I am not in London today Nice to chill sometimes, got a ballet dvd from lovefilm today as well, cor blimey, super culture day INIT |
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« Reply #57 on: 23:25:58, 12-05-2007 » |
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Tonight's Barbican concert is going to be on Radio 3 on Wednesday apparently so you can have the best of both worlds if you stayed in to listen to "Agrippina". (It was excellent although I thought Walton's first symphony went on a bit at times - need to listen to it again to find out what I was missing.)
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« Reply #58 on: 11:12:18, 13-05-2007 » |
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Concerts work better on the radio than opera or ballet, I think, though I enjoyed agrippina I think a dvd would have been better, wish the eno would film all their productions |
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« Reply #59 on: 12:31:32, 14-05-2007 » |
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Anyone hoping to LISTEN AGAIN to AGRIPPINA will find that when they click on the programme, you instead hear an illustrated discussion about different recordings of Monteverdi's L'ORFEO  I've reported it to LISTEN AGAIN, but it might sink home if a few others do so too? |
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