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Don Basilio
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« Reply #15 on: 11:26:31, 20-02-2007 »
Hello Mary, Simon, tp,


I've only just noticed your messages.  I will look up Simon's link, but the webpage I use to find libretti is:

http://www.karadar.com/Default.htm

The texts are all in the original, which would be no use to me for Czech, but where I have a passing knowledge of the language, it is a great help in filling out the synopsis.

I suspect there are two sorts of opera listeners, those who want to follow the words and those who don't.

PS How do I include the smileys in a message?
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« Reply #16 on: 12:27:35, 20-02-2007 »
DonBasilio,
You can click on smiley when you reply to a post and it will put it there. You can see it only after you post your message. There are more smileys on Announcement board. You can fetch them. You have to click on the third code with left side of your mouse (that is the last bottom code) and it copies it. Then go back to your message and click with the other side of the mouse (right side) and it will paste it.

Thank you for the link. After meditating on the subject of fogiveness I came to conclusion that Janacek got it right.
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« Reply #17 on: 12:51:14, 20-02-2007 »
Thanks, tp

I love your tinkling piano smiley.

Let me try.  I click on the smiley above Grin (The letter D appears in my message) and now I press post...
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« Reply #18 on: 12:52:46, 20-02-2007 »
It worked! It worked!   Cheesy  Grin Kiss
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
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« Reply #19 on: 11:44:58, 22-02-2007 »
Quote from: Mary Chambers on 11:07:16, 18-02-2007
I agree, t-p. The ending is so unlikely that I feel it weakens the opera. He'd have done better to make it a total stark tragedy.

Jenufa was the first opera I saw and being a slightly nervous soul I got to the theatre about two hours early - I didn't realise I had a ticket for the pre performance talk but was lucky I was so early and that I was there for the talk.

The guy who did the talk basically said of the ending: don't try to rationalise or understand it, everything is in the music.  It is pure 'opera' in that sense - emotional and not easy to explain.

I'd go along with that.  And also both productions I've seen (WNO '98, ENO '06) have made the ending plausible at least - through music and action.

(I realise this post may make no sense at all.)
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« Reply #20 on: 18:07:48, 22-02-2007 »
gingerjon, it makes sense to me.  Wink
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« Reply #21 on: 18:57:06, 22-02-2007 »
Amanda Roocroft recently won a BAFTA for her performance in the title role of the ENO production.  Smiley
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« Reply #22 on: 13:19:21, 23-02-2007 »
I thought it was an Olivier award she won http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117959780.html?nav=acen
but she may have won a BAFTA as well for all I know.

Must say I found that production highly plausible - in fact I felt quite depressed afterwards. It was an excellent performance though.
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« Reply #23 on: 14:34:29, 23-02-2007 »
Quote from: reiner_torheit on 18:57:06, 22-02-2007
Amanda Roocroft

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« Reply #24 on: 19:19:11, 23-02-2007 »
Well, it was definitely some kind of Award Smiley
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