Welcome to the White Shirt live comment thread for Mozart’s “Lucio Silla” from Brussels (2017), with Antonello Manacorda conducting and staged by Tobias Kratzer.
Cast List:
Jeremy Ovenden – Lucio Silla Lenneke Ruiten – Giunia
Anna Bonitatibus – Cecilio
Simona Saturová – Lucio Cinna
Ilse Eerens – Celia
Carlo Allemano – Aufidio
Libretto: The French version (on ARTE) should have French subtitles, the German version German subtitles. English (html) here, Italian (pdf) here.
i here i here, operating on the magic channel version.. now let’s read up the synopsis…
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ready to go!
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I’m on the ARTE download.
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start!? (is Agathe here?)
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Agathe?
(And Anna, perhaps?)
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I’m on Arte as well, hope it is the same cutting as magic channel
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please let me know when music starts on your side, now clapping on mine
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Is that J.F:.Kennedy and Putin eating oysters?!
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together? i wasn’t sure.. saw our current dictator..
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plus Ustinov as Nero…
well, this overture montage is already a lot – wait, was that a magpie?!
Also, knives and blood and nightmares?! And turning people into Barbie dolls? Will this be heavy-handed Freud reading?
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ah, okay: the theme is evil dictators abusing women they marry?
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jeah, but strange to have JFK there? unless i don’t know something?
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tht’s probably the “but power is evil and Jackie wasn’t happy, either” joker of poststructuralist ambiguity. 😉
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Hello, I’m here!
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hi Anna!
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Hello! 🙂
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Hi, start?
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let’s start this thing!
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start! now some stuff on screen.. orchestra tuning
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here, too – I don’t know the conductor or the director. This will be interesting!
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Yes, never heard of them, quite pronounced beginning of the overture.
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same on Arte
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music on! lemon cutting! i’d like a lemon please! wow, nice oyster! (not that i know how to eat)
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robust sort-of-early music brass? A little scratchy?
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may be they have lots of brass player? it sounds ok on my side so far.. they’re using period instruments for sure (?), sounds quite warm, jeah. me likes!
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sounds like period.
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oh, i hope my version has either French or English subtitles..
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not sure they will help…!
oh look, a dog.
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nice looking doggie too! oh, how cute, cuuuuuuuuuute glasses!! hair!
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plus checkered shirt and cargo pants!
#LesbainChic
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Oh, video projections again…
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🙂 . since Semiramide..
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let’s hope no airplanes taking offf!
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LOL
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This video is so WTf… but I love the overture, though. It has some attitude!
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This looks very realistic, including dog!
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hmm, am reminded of a movie.. not sure which actress.. climbing fence with prepared with steaks in her pack to throw to dogs when needed…
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“is she fidel”, wth
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it seems the subs are working?
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it’s the Tatort feeling!! 😉
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Yes, absolutely!
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i found it! the clip with climbing fence and steaks to throw at dog! surely one of you will recognize at least!
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I remember this! 😁 – I knew the production looked gay for reasons beyond flannel, too.
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So, Cecilio seems to be a woman here?
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I can accept that.
perhaps she needed to go undercover in a homophobic dictatorship?
So… Cecilio is Cecilia, and Cinna is Spike from Buffy. Gender ambiguous.
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these names are very familiar.. why suddenly everyone with a “C”..
(is this the manteau toss aria?ah no.. very slick suit! like!
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this looks like a bar fight in my queer home pub ca. late 1997. I swear we had regulars like both of them. And then sneaking off to stand under a girl’s window. –
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how would that styling be undercover :-)?
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it isn’t, which is why she needs to sneak around at night so no one sees her)
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so far, everyone looks a lesbian.
(okay, the topless tenor in the window is… eh, Aix Nurse)
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I know him from the Madrid Rodelinda, so he gets my attention via Prina association.
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Ovenden?
I think I heard him in Betulia liberata with Mijanovic on the M2006 edition from Salzburg…?
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and there is Draco Malfoy as Cinna
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Malfoy is a good call, too. Hard to recognize from her Ismene!
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OK!, now I get it, she was in the Brussels Mitridate?
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Yes, as Ismene – and I find the Cinna at least in this aria a little on the low side for her, she has more power higher up.
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yes. i know her from that. i recognized the name immediately
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OK let’s see her climb the fence!
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I second this motion.
But singing first!!
(already from the recit, I am so looking forward to some Bonitatibus – she has such a great vocal seat and color for this repertory)
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I am enjoying the pit so far! Very rustic Country Style & Living scratchiness, but nicely warm, too.
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yes, and with Cinna! and am loving how Cinna disarming there! stance included (hands in pocket.. i hear her better than Kalna)
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Yes, good drive, some of the robustness may also be the acoustics/sound mix in relation to the singers?
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Very skilled singing, though I need to get used to the Soprano sound here.
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there must be SO MUCH soprano trouser repertory out there from all the soprano castrato parts. Just imagine!!
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RECIT alert!!
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recit ALERT!
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AAAaaaah, I had forgotten just how GOOD she is.
(okay, playing a piny lesbian in nerd glasses with a checkered shirt is a plus, too, but not the deciding factor here. Skip the arias, just give her more accompagnato recits!)
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low note and phrasing major alert!!!
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okay, there may have been facets about Cecilio that I didn’t fully appreciate when we heard Fagioli singing him in spring.
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the aria is also VERY lovely! (and also on record am hearing her significantly better than Crebassa, whose voice is a bit of less heft and less colors <– to my hearing )
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can we plllleeease see more of Bonitatibus please, wow! really like!
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I didn’t expect 16-year-old composer’s opera to be this good , even if it was Mozart!
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…Mozart. Right?
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The camera is overdoing the zooming, hey, nice detail with the dog approaching and Cecilia getting careful about him.
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This is a lot of fun, although, I’m fighting with my puristic tendencies.
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on whose voice? Bonitatibus? i hear her on ALL parts of my ears
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The style is quite extrovert for this repertoire, but that’s just me, needing a bit of getting used to. Whoa, nice accellerando here!
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yes, a lot of Rossini in there – I am switching gears, too.
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oh? hehe. i love it.
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Haha, I like the hyper-realistic setting, the graves!
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and what’s with the Halmet’s Dead Dad Vampire ghost? Who controls Silla like a zombie?! (is that explaining Trumpism? #Brainslug?)
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this is WILD, I am having so much fun.
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Silla is hanging out with count Dracula…?
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and why does he keep his sister underneath the table?
Does she control him with that vodoo doll?
(and I think we also heard Eerens as Celia back in April?)
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those dolls are creepy…
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Definitely a total fun version! These coloratura and in combination with such emotion…
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nice phrasing in the recit from .. the 3rd “C” too!!
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(Celia)
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okay, but if they paint Celia as a school girl, that her affair with Cinna is just icky.
(and Celia is apparently roleplaying Cecilia/Giunia with her dollhouse olls…?)
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hm, this way her entire aria is framed not about herself, but about Giunia/Cecilio – I wonder if she will get to do more commentary?
While Ovenden is basically asked to patent a blasé zombie stare…?
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Now, this IS really creepy. But to have it this much overdone makes it bearable.
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Celia ripping apart the Cecilio doll?
is that some “traumatized daughter articulating the things she has seen through doll-playing” take?
– Barbie dolls are always creepy. Still, Silla, put that Giunia doll away.
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Probably, quite cheap, let’s see if the staging shows some self-irony or are we supposed to take this seriously?
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seeing as there are lesbians and vampires and voodoo dolls, I sure do hope that some of this is supposed to be ironic.
Well, if not we’ll do the job for them and take it down a notch.
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he sounds JUST like the Dario we had! i have to check his name…
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hahahaha! see, i can hear tenor just fine! that’s him!
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and he was Grimoaldo in the Madrid Rodelinda (don’t ask me how he was singing, I was distracted)
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#ICS
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While I realize that Giunia’s dress color is a little garish, is that a reason to drag her with a bag over her head?!
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Isn’t that some sort of lime-green?
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it’s not bright enough 😉
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😀
it is “lime-green meets mustard”, perhaps?!
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😀 I need to think further about that
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Ruiten fits into this perfectly, I do enjoy her slightly arrogant air, it’s even in her (very impressive) sound.
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yes – I was puzzling right now how she sounds a bit more disaffected than as Fiordiligi or Aspasia, but I think it is part of the portrayal?
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meanwhile, am having difficulty with her sharpness, it’s the sharpest of all the sopranos here..
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meanwhile, I feel like chablis and seafood.
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Hmm, to be honest, to me she always has that slightly detached air.
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i think it’s too on the uniform for me (and/or might jsut be too high altogether 🙂 ) , i have to turn volume down now…
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hm, I am noticing it more than last year (but perhaps I was more distracted last year.)
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Haha, offering lemon with…smoked fish?
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oysters!!
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oysters
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the lesbians are syncing again. 😉
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Haha, just when I was about to correct myself!
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…and now we know what her dress is supposed to match.
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oysters and lime look fresh! am tempted to try right now.
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Somehow I don’t really buy her falling for Cecilia, but I’m ready to be persuaded.
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Not really seeing her falling for anyone with that detached air? (well, they will meet eventually. Including long piny duet)
(Silla does a bit of Hannibal-channeling there.)
(Meanwhile, Giunia does not seem at all surprised by the presence of an actual moth-frayed vampire in the house…?)
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you mean Cecilio? don’t confuse me with the 4th “C” 😉
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only 3 Cs here.
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Now I remember his singing in Madrid, and that I enjoyed his singing-acting more than the actual singing.
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meanwhile am watching our “Dario” acting slightly different than in Torino (more variety)
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well, he does handle that fake rosé admirably. (still trying to figure out the link between ‘sired by a vampire’ and ‘dictators and powers and also misogyny’)
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oh, come on, don’t tell me you’d go for blood when there is a perfectly chilled platter of oysters? Yeah, fine, to each their kink, but… the oysters!
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i think it’s meant to be lipsticks, hence only where his lips are
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I missed that, did he kiss the vampire?
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in case he did, I missed it, too!
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Aufidio(?) has a bad influence on Silla.
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more like has him spellbound like a puppet?
Ok a side note, that wig and suit are NOT at all a bad look on Saturova.
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NOT at ALL
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Cinna approaching, this staging is fun, but it won’t be enough in the long run.
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not beyond just making fun of it, no.
‘Dictators=zombies of power and also patriarchy’ is not enough as a concept.
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then again, have Cecilio sing “Giunia, cara sposa” a few more times, and I shall be sufficiently distracted.
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yep, i didn’t notice the staging..
(though now some sort of Fagioli’s Piacere is approaching haunting Giunia)
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right, they had to bring in Fagioli somehow – also, Wednesday Addams apparently dyed her hair blond?
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moooar Cecilio!
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and more accompagnato!
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thank you, Mozart!
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oh, that scene change in the pit – looovely, and with quite a bit of body! Nice!
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i’d love to hear Bonitatibus as Sesto!! (burning scene!)
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oh YES!
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so, which Vitellia…? Back with Coote?
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oh wow, JEAH!
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❤ her phrasing. me loves.
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(i’m gonna write a post later today linking Mingardo’s interview where she talks about colors and intonations exclusively in recit..)
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yes please!
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Wait, Voldemort is holding a vampire meet-up in the backyard, and Giunia thinks she’s definitely had her drink spiked?
Or is this a Goth conference? And what’s with little Dracula kneeling down in front o Giunia? Specters of power? Not clear enough!
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Now I’m distracted by Ruiten’s legs…
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which is understandable.
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So Giunia seems to be psychotic?
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even if temporary? i mean you can slip in and out depending on how long you’ve been subjected to tough conditions / isolations?
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Cecilio behind tree alert!
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if there is one thing to shake you out of it, it’s a cute mezzo with some piny phrasing and nerd glasses…?
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as in ‘seeing stuff that isn’t there’? So now that makes her doubt Cecilio, too?
(would work, but what do the vampires represent, then?)
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The start of the scene, which is higher, was a bit too steep for me, but I like the not-upper-top work she does here better. But I still have a different impression of her here than all of last year.
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am getting the same impression actually. perhaps i did listen a bit extensively last year 😉 (i notice her recit way is the same, and with acting, it’s not 100% in character per se , not when compared with either Sifare or Cecilio here..)
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yes, that 90% in scene thing, that’s the same. I just have a different memory of her live concert, and also her Fiordiligi…
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But who ARE the Goths? Ghosts of Christmas past? A choir after 300 Traviatas gone south? The killed Roman souls? The dictator entourage that thrives on evil?! If you give me zombies, give me zombie plot, too!
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HEy, wait a minute, is my vision queer, or is the headstone saying CECILIA?
(also, hey: reunion! An under a realistic Christmas tree, too, though god knows why)
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it does say Cecilia!
haha, that dog running across, almost like in a dream
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haha, even Cinna’s appearance looks creepy too
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perhaps he’s long since been turned into a vampire too?
And apropos vampires, the screens/surveillance…. just when you thought he had it the creep quota with the blood he goes off to ogle sleeping sopranos
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okay, they adopt the dog, get married, the end.
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Now this is cute, Cecilia being so very cautious, as to not disturb her so much.
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Ruiten’s annual schedule must also be like “So, what’s my Mozart seria this year to get pined over by some soprano/mezzo in trousers?”
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(who have different rules of interaction, it seems)
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❤ ❤ ❤ Bonitatibus .
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oh, and the backpack. and going for a makeshift bandage. Aww.
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OK, I’m sold!
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following the kiss? she’s quite sincere in her acting. and the voice contrast to Ruiten is very nice!
(and came packed with first-aid kids. soo versatile!)
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yes, the backpack. So very practical. Also the boots.
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coloratura or kissing or both?
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*everything*
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convincing connection between these two (plus everything you said)
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though I can’t help the feeling these two met in psychiatry.
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both on the same side of the ward?
Well, at least they’re both on the same page…
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we could already talk about Dario’s sound here? his singing sounds “covered” somehow to me, like he’s closing his mouth 50% at all time singing, sound warped and muffed..
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yes, but I also wondered whether part of it is the very wide set? Ruiten didn’t get across well from behind the blinds, Saturova also less gettin through less easily than in the Mitridate – perhaps a soundmix issue?
(Ovenden is a bit more on the throat side, though)
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no he sounds exactly like this in Turin! hence i recognized the singing immediately despite the dracula appearance
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Allemanno, or Ovenden?
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Allemano
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yes, absolutely
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Allemanno has that ‘a little frayed around the edges thing’, and he gts across, but it’s not the clearest or most focused of front projections.
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He is not super impressive vocally, but he does have good instincts with how to get meaning across I think.
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how much money did go into that video budget and the LED screens?!
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not a lot if you already have in inventory
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at least Silla’s mansion already looks like a ward, Giunia might feel right at home.
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More dramatic recit for Bonitatibus!!
❤
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now i get Agathe’s impression, Cecilia definitely came out of a ward..
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although the rage is rather justified (within context)
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Yes, but it’s a good approach (if meant like that) makes the story much more realistic and very touching to me.
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people going mad because it is the only way of dealing with power mechanics unless you want to become an evil vampire yourself…?
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…and Cecilia even brought her journal diary. This couldn’t look any gayer if they tried.
(also “let me kill that dictator – with a brittle torn of tree branch”)
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Oh no, now Cecilio nearly loosing it, now I can’t unsee this angle, it makes so much sense. Please, don’t do anything stupid….
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🙂
(me too. poor Cinna getting stick to the leg..)
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okay, the actual Wedneday Addams is Celia, and she has some plans for Cinna who… does not look bad scowling with the hair falling into her face. Oh my.
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Haha Cinna and Celia are quite a match as well!
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It’s “Spike and Dru, seria style”
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am having fun. Saturová’s face and postures why fun to see as reaction.
haha, the note, and i thought she pulled out some med to get through..
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hihi.
oh, this is so much more fun and engaging than that tepid Raphaelite Boccanegra.
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do you mean the staging or Cecilio? 😉
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That was impressive!! 🙂
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Oh, that bar fight continues!
(we did we never have singing as good with it?! And a period band instead of Melissa?)
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haha Cinna has seen this dole haus too many times?
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but slightly impressed/disturbed by the exact figurine..
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you know, Celia’s music reminds me so much of Blonde’s! both this and the last aria i thought i was listening to that opera..
(and melikes her phrasing)
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Yes, not so easy to make these roles interesting. but it can work out
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Celia as the teenage girl with doll fantasies is pretty solid (hm, vampire or not?)
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okay, so Cinna is a vampire, too.
(well, his look kin of did give him/her away, so that should not come as a surprise).— hm, perhaps everyone not a vampire in this one is straight from a ward?
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ah, now i understand. (s)he’s not visible on camera!
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…I didn’t notice. Ha!
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but how can he resist the blood! (yikes!)
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Figaro called, he missing his barber’s set.
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One of my favorite things about Silla is that it offers a more or less coloratura soprano a chance to play a badass scheming g trouser role.
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Petibon next week? if i can’t secure Statira?
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I have to check the schedule, but otherwise, yes! (though Petibon is Giunia, not Cinna)
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oh really?! wow! WOW!!!
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Maybe Silla with the binoculars, vampire, blood etc. are all part of Giunia’s delusional system? Why is she shaving??
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oh, intriguing. so the garden would be a fantasy within the ward? would we ever even see the outside world?
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Hmm, I thought the house and garden would still be real, maybe Silla as well, but he might be a perfectly nice gentleman with no ill intentions whatsoever? Thought right this moment he seems to have issues as well, holding his head…
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she found the camera and is singing directly at him! He cannot deal with being found out?
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But the video surveillance really looks a lot like paranoia, maybe that’s her imagination how he would act, drooling at the videos… No, put the knife away….
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no real knives allowed in the ward!
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her yellow dress is the only spot of color, and if he dresses her in that white and black, that will be gone, too.
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now Cinna is getting on edge! (nice recit)
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Is this the point where I admit that I always had a soft spot for Spike (very easily readable as a butch lesbian, too).
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oh, this aria is higher, she is getting to show off her skills way more!
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I like her voice! It’s kind of sharp in a pleasant way.
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Perhaps because it is on the unstrained side? Also in the Mitridate last year, she still got in some warmth.
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jeah, and slick too, polished power woman (Merkel!)
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Merkel wishes she were as slick!
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Yes, very good fit!
(just the wig verdict is very unfavourable)
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i like the wig! (and slick suit! and indignant look!)
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vocally a bit more phrasing could be possible?
i secretly want to try out both this outfit and the wig..
(this is not Idamante, but her movements are interesting actually, sort of this indignant way..)
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the final walk off with shurggun on jacket,s tuffing hands in pickets… nice.)
(I don’t mind the wig, either)
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Is Cinna taking pills to not vamp out? or is he an illusion, too? (in the end, perhaps it’s all dreamt up my Celia in her dollhouse? – meanwhile, I will not complain about another Cinna scene)
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Cecilio below window alert!
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where is the balcony to climb?
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that Silla aria had some nice drive, at least in the A part.
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it’s a great villain aria!
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why is Celia always hiding behind or beneath the furniture…?
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i think shy/awkward kids are like that. i’m beginning to have fun whenever she pulled out the doll haus.
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and everyone will be saying “GOd, not the dolls again…!”
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I beginning to find her quite creepy. To me, she seems more like a mentally challenged adult than a kid.
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so… that would be another person in the ward.
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jeah, even abused.. and haven’t gotten past development stages..
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yes, something like that.
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I really like this Celia aria (OK, it’s probably the dancing in the Salzburg version), and this is a very nice, lively take!
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yes! Blonde-type voice, too – really a very might lyric.
Ahaha, Giunia’s “Are you crazy?” look at Celia’s doll interaction of Celia/Cinna.
(are these two sharing a room in the ward?)
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The bridal dress does have this belt that looks a lot like a system you could use to tie someone to a bed if there’s no other possibility, this is all a bit much.
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mixing bridal wear with detish gear fits in with the whole ‘goth vampires in the harden and violence against women’ style? it didn’t even strike me as something from a ward. Hmm.
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Maybe it’s deliberate that it’s all mixing up (I was only waiting for the self-harming, there it is, certainly the first wound wasn’t caused by Silla as well)
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… has she switched over to vampire side, too?
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jeah, me like her singing! and movements (quite realistic)
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you just like that she gets to jump on the bed. 😉
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haha. actually i like her entire set of movements. very in character, in tune with her phrasing, and made the character very believable.
(and contrasts very sharply with Ruiten here for example, as soon as she (Ruiten) starts the recit i feel again it’s a bit “acting”…)
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also i don’t get a headache at all from her sound, hence i can hear her aria very well here.
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Dr T, you were right about the hectic zooms – I could follow this better with less extreme zooms and cuts to some side moment or other.
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okay, the creepiest of them all may be Celia after all.
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Really enjoying the orchestra here in the accents!
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the mood changes are really good (also really well written)
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so if Giunia kills herself (not that it would work the way she is trying), will she be revived as a vampire?
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Now we know why Cecilio always has the first aid kit with him.
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(haha!)
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oh, the Goth garden party continues (s whenever Giunia has an episode she sees Marilyn Manson giving a free concert in the garden?)
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iiiiiiiresistable voice!
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(oh, he’s a vampire too? Silla!)
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I think so – Aufidio must be the Sire of the whole group?
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oohh, me loooves this voice . and contrast very nicely in that ensemble
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this trio is very Tito already. AAAA, and the orchestration!
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Cecilia isn’t exactly stable, either.
Wait, did he just try to shoot a vampire with regular bullets?
GET A STAKE, BUFFY!!
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Silla sure gets to practice his tie-binding a lot.
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did you see his shirt has velcro instead of buttons?
oh, oops, Giunia has joined the dark side!
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I thought that button went a little fast. Cheating!!
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So… now that Silla has bitten Giunia, she got turned, too?
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I don’t know, I’m quite moved by this psychiatric setting, because for them it’s all real. And seen like that even all the overdone vampire stuff is not so silly any more. Also the dialogues make surprisingly much sense.
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I’d really be interested in the dicrector explaining how she came to stage it this way, and what her thoughts were.
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oh no, now sound is not synching on my side.. do you have problems as well? not when Cilia’s doll haus and her singing is coming along, as well as slllllick Cinna
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my DL copy is working fine!
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Everything is good in the Arte version
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(jeah, am downloading the ARTE version in parallel now.. my laptop hates flash so it’s always going into overheating when i watch on ARTE…)
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I thought we were just joking about the vampires… 🙂 Now I feel really confused.
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Sure, it can be seen both ways of course (and the vampires ARE silly, but the duet was still moving from their perspective I thought)
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there are definitely vampires.
The question is: are they someone’s imagination or real?
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Petition to dress Saturova in suits with pockets in all her productions.
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also I never realized how many Cinna arias there are (no complaints)
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thumbs up. (both thumbs)
(and i like a lot Saturova’s recit)
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There must be something in the water of this house, that’s the only explanation for everyone getting mad.
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ah, so it could a warning comment on environmental pollution. 😉
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I this foreshadowing Silla’s change od heart in the end? Him suddenly being aghast at the footage of beating Giunia? (or am I reading his empty facial expression wrong?)
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okay, who chopped off the Christmas tree, and just before the big piny duet??
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piano lines… low notes.. ascent..
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who cares about the plot at this point?
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❤ ❤
maajoooor in love . i mean w.o.w
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that’s me passing out
(hands placement..)
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also shirt layers.
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siiiiiigh.
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And now vampire Giunia is turning Cecilio (last one shuts the door!) and then wants to kill him with a pair of scissors, whole he seems oddly used to Giunia having such episodes?
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“Will always follow you as a faithful shadow” works also in a vampire setting, it’s only much more literal.
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Quite odd how much the text fits, even before, referring to Silla as the ‘bloodthirty creature’!
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Ha, good catch!
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“Aufidio sorgi, dunque non sei…”
that is not original, is it now?
“I imagined the vampire, so I’m the only normal one, but I managed to turn everyone else into a vampire?”
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Tssss, now this vampire business is getting really silly, I don’t get the intention.
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It’s… it was a metaphor for something, right?
Or did Giunia in the ward just kill the nice maintenance guy/lady because she had an attack…?
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Yeah but metaphor for what? Now I know, they all have rabies!
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and now that EVERYONE is a vampire, can we wrap this up?
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no, there’s still Celia left!
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Celia is either the sire at the bottom of it all and actually everal thousand years old, or she is the only one who’s real and the entire opera happened in her head’s dollhouse?
(And why do we get vieo rape footage? In whose mind did that happen? – or is this the version that would be ‘real’ as opposed to the one mediated by an imagines Aufidio?
(And why would anyone watch a video screen if there is a mezzo to look at instead?)
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yes, if they are all undead vampires, what’s the point with Cecilio’s death sentence?
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may be a sunlight ray will shine soon!
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and everyone will combust!
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depends on whether it is bullets or a stake!
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And now it looks like Silla was indeed the only real psychopath and everyone else’s madness was just a reaction to his torture regime?
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which would make this a bt like Herheim’s Rusalka – the entire opera trip in one person breaking down.
A, no, final clue – the real vampire is Cinna? Or at least the really evil guy? (also, the distractingly attractive guy, but I digress)
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It looked like that, didn’t it, as if he had tricked everyone into believing Silla was the bad guy?
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yes, at the last second the blame shifting from Silla to Cinna, who has tricked him into everything and has fooled everyone?
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Now the cops… against a vampire?
I give up. I’m just here for the queer coloratura.
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Yes, it was worth it for that! Also, at least not exactly a boring staging.
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major swooning on Bonitatibus
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we should find more with her to liveblog, right?
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definitely!
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the dog is so cute.
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and very well trained.
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yes. Also major lesbian points for basically copying the end of When Night is Falling with the dog running away.
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at least it kept us guessing (irony or not, who’s the next vampire, in whose mind are we?)
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directed by slick suit and smirk
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i think she loves that suit and wig.
me like Celia! will check her name
here comes Bonitatinus! like! and are thos her real glasses? i like it they work these into stagings (like with Mingardo) so they don’t have to swap out for terrible contact lenses
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I don’t think so? But I don’t know, I have never seen offstage footage of Bonitatibus.
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well, that was… wild. Not bad, but I wish I’d have understood it better.
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jeah, interesting! and we’re speechless and confused at the end, hehe.
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much better kind of speechless and confused that after that Naples thing. 😉
So for a moment we were supposed to believe that there was no evil vampire spell that Silla was under, but then Cinna told us with a wink that he was the evil vampire… or that is my take, at least. I may have missed part because MEZZO)
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But it definitely was an enjoyable evening, good night everyone1
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good night!
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good night! (i might go take another nap too)
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good night!
I’m off to sleep, too.
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Good night from me too!
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well, i just searched for Anna Bonitatibus, and the first link that comes up is:
Bonitatibus – en travesti:
The Anti-Diva, as she likes to describe herself, is renowned for the noble passion with which she interprets titles between the most famous of ‘teatro musicale’…
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WELL.
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and an attached photo of rehearsal
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nice rehearsal digs!
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Everyone seemed to act like normal people in the end, so that would suggest everything was someone’s imagination… but whose? Folie à six, or something?
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jeah, am trying to read up on the staging.. will report later my findings.
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this is a stagig where I would have loved to hear the concept pitch to the cast and crew.
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Either Cinna in an evil vampire overlord who played everyone including Silla, or everything is in Celia’s head, or possibly Giunia’s?
I am still looking for the link to the overture pitch, which so gar is powermongers an oysters – so when do the vampires come in? As an allegory on the bloodsucking forces of capitalism? Or as a figment of imagination of people who get caught up in power mechanisms and get their minds deformed by how hey are treated?
(there must be some heavy delusions going on, if Cecilio cannot shoot Silla (or Silla is an actual vampire?), or if the scene where Giunia is assaulted which was visible to the audience as Aufidio restraining her later replays on video as rape, without Aufidio (but if Silla is a vampire, why is he visible on video?)
(…or perhaps they all six smoked the same thing.)
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I’m still wondering as well, maybe it’s a more general statement of how trauma causes trauma with the vampires symbolizing self-repeating terror and violence? Silla was alarmed when he saw himself raping Giunia in the video sequence, so that would maybe imply a dissociative identity disorder, likely caused by serious childhood abuse? All other people in the house seemed to be hostages of mad Silla’s terror regime, maybe for a long time, so in a way, their decompensation is understandable. But don’t ask me where winking Cinna fits in…
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