Welcome to the White Shirt live comment thread for Vivaldi’s “Incoronazione di Dario” from Turin (2017), with Ottavio Dantone conducting and staged by Leo Muscato.
Cast List:
Statira – Sara Mingardo
Argene – Delphine Galou
Dario – Carlo Allemano
Niceno – Riccardo Novaro
Alinda – Roberta Mameli
Oronte – Lucia Cirillo
Arpago – Veronica Cangemi
Flora – Romina Tomasoni
Ghost of Ciro & Oracle of Apollo – Cullen Gandy
Libretto: no such luck, but subtitles on the official DVD! (which is the only source for now; no online availability yet)
Good evening!
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Who is ready for a little Italian vacation?
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Hey, are you feeling better?
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not really, but the paracetamol is working, so that’s my gelato flavor for tonight.
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medicine flavoured gelato – you should patent it 😉
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Or better the other way around…
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true
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No pizza for me either, it was Curry with Tofu, which was still in the fridge as leftover from thadieu’s cooking 🙂
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🙂
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Hello 😀
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pizza contralto at the ready?
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yes! I actually already ate it (the pizza, not the contralto, haha), due to… hunger.
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galoumisu for dessert, I say
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am here, sorry… how are you and your med gelato flavored? i’d like a pill too!
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are you under the weather, too? how about we START?
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OK, started, applause…
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here, too – pit standing, mobile announcement…
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yes, start! hope you’re able to get a little fun from Statira if possible..
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if two o the very best contraltos cannot save me, nothing can. 🙂
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are you ill as well? is there a bug going around the world? the office was teeming with germs here as well.
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a bug other than neo-right populism, that is.
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meanwhile, my children had lice….
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WHAT??
I hope none of you is bug phobic? Or allergic to that shampoo?
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oh, sorry to hear. we were full of those when growing up too.. we had combs designed to detect them.. and then we also sit around catching it on each other’s head…
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jeah, lost my lovely low singing voice too.. a couple of days ago it was at least scratchy and *deep* thanks to coughing lungs out.. but now gone! i’ll let STatira take over 🙂
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you’ll just be there for the catching, like in Aci? 😉
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I like the lute!
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when do I ever not like the lute…
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and the overture in general 🙂 Venetian baroque = ❤
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sigh, Dantone.
His level of energy is beyond me tonight, but smooth, tying in all the chiaroscuro without making it too mannerist. (it’s the house band, right? Metal strings? Modern woodwinds?)
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it’s the house band, yes.
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i can’t remember if modern or not.. aaaaahhh here comes our contraltos. I protest that their duet was cut!!!
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I know! rubbish.
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oh, do choose your language.
(hahaha, these two are too cute)
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It’s clear they are having the fun of their lives acting this. 😀
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great energy. Can we please cast them in a Bond opera? (only with Prina as Bond instead of Allemano)
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Argene all: I had a nightmare, where’s the gin, and Statira all “No, he was there, REALLY”.
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Protest!!!
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WEll, if there ever was a campy 80s space movie start to a staging, this might be it.
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the poor contraltos, sleeping in in a forest of pipes.
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…steampunk?
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haha, literally – you expect the steam to escape during some vengeful aria.
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Galou!!
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time for a bit of gelato…
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Who#s the guy?
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bass = tutor, philosopher, has a thing for Statira..
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and Argene for him, I get it, nice looks she gives him
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no, Argene is all pining for the tenor sadly… if that tenor were another contralto on the other hand..
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yes, make it 3 contraltos! Where, if not in Venice?
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hahahahaha, you got to “a qui?” yet?
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the way Argene looks at Dario singing, she is imagining a mezzo or contralto in his place. right?
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we are, in any case!
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definitely! imagine either Iervolino or Mijanovic..
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oh, good calls.
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that image will require extra gelato!
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melting.
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sorry, forgot, Prina please!!! omg, that’d be sooooo fun, RIOT!
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aria still going on here…
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it’s before the aria –
the way galou’s face drops as soon as Dario turns away is pretty priceless, too, though.
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jeah, you’ll have to rewatch. they do a ton of facial expressions during recit
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I will re-watch! what a fun production!
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yes! I also love when she wanted to hide the jewellery 😀
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Statira has run off of my screen already… so now on poooor Argene and we have to put up with this tenor
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we are all the faces Argene pulls
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“so this is what a migraine looks like.”
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she’s properly hard done by! defeated by a simpleton = nightmare of the intelligent.
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haha
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Galou is auditioning for the role of lead villain in the Baroque version of Dallas.
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fingersnap!
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legs… excuse me. I am not hallucinating this under fever, am I?
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most certainly you’re not. I was very busy likewise (more gelato needed).
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if dreses without backs are not an option, one needs to rely on other qualities…?
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and she sings, too! Haha.
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loving the strings, too
And like ALL Floras, this FLora seems a littel taken with the boss lay?
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Haha, “your words are not very clear to me”
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“WHat would be want from ME?” (fingerpointing)
Mingardo is so much fun,
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please watch her facial and HANDS expressions, and how they synch
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SLAM!
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yes, fantastic work.
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gifs to come?
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more gif. am having fun.
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As are we! Thank you!
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you need to collect all of these in a new post: Introduction to L’incoronazione di Dario, that little known but really good AND funny opera by Vivaldi.
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Haha, I really LOVE this Statira ❤
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hahaha, just got there now.
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hahaha, the way Statire pushed away Flora’s two hearts in one hands 😀
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like “ugh, that’s going to hurt, icky”
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it’s a pretty horrible image taken literally 😉 siamese lovebirds!
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hahaha
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I actually like the subtle commentary on the stupidity of “love talk”.
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And I love hat Dantone does with the strings in the prelude to FLora’s aria.
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haha, here comes “your words are not very clear to me”
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perfection! 😀 you need to add it to your front of the house collection.
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So, Flora likes the naive one better? I like both!
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I think Flora goes for the evil one?
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Hot Sauce or Mild Sauce? Both!
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isn’t a threesome always the answer? haha.
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Give me a minute and another med shot and can fit this into an icecream analogy…
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I think she likes her because she can make fun of her (and probably have further material gains in her employment).
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Statira, hide the jewelry!
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despise might be the right word to describe her character’s feeling toward Statira
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you think?
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well, that, mixing in with annoyance it looks to me. she gives me the impression she wants to advance further.. and wouldn’t mind bossing Arpago and all the toy guns herself
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the sequel! L’incoronazione di Flora.
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… or how revolution won in… Persia.
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Now who’s that? Terrorists versus garbage collection?
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see! I always thought they were bin men 😀 hahaha!
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I don’t care, it is scheming Veronica Cangemi in pants. And I thought I would never get that Cinna setting back with her!
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it’s the sunglasses indoors, she thinks it’s another faction she’s facing, instead it’s garbage collection day!
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anything to start a brawl. Feels like back in the bar days!
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haha, this is competing with Arsace for weaponry
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So… the cleaning crew is pro authorities on the oilfield, and then there’s the ragtag bag of suppressed locals?
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yes, the bin men are emplyed by the state.
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I would say it is from a Star Wars movie?
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but also, two minutes and you have trouser mezzo and trouser soprano in a stick fight. I have no complaints in my current state.
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Cirillo showing her expertise in trouser roles with posture
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I shall rewind later,
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no worry, she’ll demonstrate through the night.
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trouser mezzo, trouser soprano and two contraltos in lead roles = Vivaldi wins the WS competition no contest.
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yep. This is Alcina levels of WS!
Also, I shall simply imagine Prina over every of Allemano’s arias.
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ok, you win as well! have an imaginary paracetamol from me 😉
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hahaha
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Dario is diplomatically dressed to appeal both the West and the Middle East.
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plus draping his aunt’s kitchen curtain around him like stole.
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his aunt was Scarlet O’Hara 😉
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I bet that braid on his headdress is made from organically sources hemp.
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Is the terrorist competing with Dario for the crown? I don’t get it yet.
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all of them are competing for Statira.
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OK, that makes sense!
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sure, it’s Mingardo.
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(everyone is)
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Dario = this tenor , from where i don’t remember. Apago = soprano in pants w/ lots of weapons = military leader. Yellow = oil rig administrative leader (forgot character’s name now..)
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(Oronte, with the baggage girlfriend in tow, she’s coming right after this)
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Oronte something…?
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(Oronte) = and now for the dickhead aria – go away, I don’t want you anymore, I want power so get the hell out of here. And she still takes him back!
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girl, you should go see Argene instead. you wouldn’t even have to get new monograph towels.
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clear inefficiency! two hard done by people should always pool their smarts together against the dumb (but possibly hot) oppressor.
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Oh, I think I’m ahead of you, I have girlfriend singing now, will stop for a bit.
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I also have Alinda singing.
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they both are. (Garbage Macho, too)
who clearly should NOT have dumped Mameli.
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well, if the option was Galou I might’ve got a bit unethical too…
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you really pose tough questions tonight. I plead out due to drug influence!
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threesome!
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isn’t it always.
(is this turning into our slogan?)
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CLEARLY!
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Isn’t this Cirillo, so Oronte?
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Yellow = Oronte, yes. and the attached (not-so)ex-gf in red Alinda
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yes
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(let me open the dvd should-have-been line-notes, from here)
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Oronte, eyeing a marriage to a contralto, rebuffs Alinda’s renewed avances – the next time you want to break up with someone, you could always employ a fiery “Lasciami, lasciami in pace”
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that’s in the liner notes?
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yours! I remember reading that way back when I first heard about this from thadieu who pointed me to your post.
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_the_ go-to notes
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God, I’m really under drugs.
Well, then. (at least some of my stuff get quoted!) 😉
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jeah, extensively, by me 😉
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and his crew needs to work on their trouser skills.
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yes, but maybe they were only there to pick up the bins and didn’t know there’d be a taped showdown 😉
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hahaha
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I’m getting whiplash with Novaro – last time I heard him, he was pining after Galou (Cornelia), now it’s Mingardo…
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terrible fate he has, to always be remembered by the contralto he was pining for 😉
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Haha, how cute is that, yes, please, sing!!
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toooooo cute! ❤ ❤
(even that pouting face due to music being swapped..)
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well, at least she can read, it seems.
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that’s the thing, isn’t it, she’s s so good at this reading it and then she’ll like whatever, I don’t get it. Haha.
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oooohhh, attention!!! the next 20-min non-stop contralto singing!!!
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me liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike.
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(attention also, as seen from thadieu & Dehggi from way above in haus: viola da gamba entering the pit!)
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Early Music troops bringing reinforcements!
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wasn’t that our best view of the first half (the orchestra?) Sweet souns, though.
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And now let’s simply add some early Baroque freestyling lamento bits for Mingardo because it’s Mingardo and she’ll ace it.
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this is a really beautiful lament, too, and I’m not that much into them. Vivaldi = ❤
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viola da gamba simply taking over.
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i melt.
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“Dario wants to steal my…. jewels!”
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“also I am not marrying a cannibal.”
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…but we might marry her bottom notes.
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i marry ALL the notes
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I was gonna say, escpecially in contrast with the no, no, no!
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hahahaha. you will have to rewind to watch her face and hands.
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I know the moves by heart 😉
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volume UP!!
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(have we lost Agathe somewhere?)
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contralto OD? shall we call opera medic?
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the plot is a lot to take in the first time around.
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…perhaps Prina shower up after all?
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what is a Prina shower up ???!
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…a type I blame on my exhausted state!
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sounds good to me, whatever it is 😀
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Statira approved!
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‘I don#t have time to blog as long as the contraltos don’t stop singing, but wait, Niceno’s headdress is nice as well.
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😀
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missing the chainmail though, isn’t it?
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Niceno has a very nice tone!
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I like him better here than in the recent Cesare (though he was good there, too)
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he’s a little underpowered live.
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btw, did you ever write about Cesare?
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Not finished yet.
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😀
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Argene “So… I was sort of born smarter than my sister…”
No kidding.
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deliciously scheming!
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hahaha, she reads much faster than Statira too
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😀
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the 4 seasons rip-off aria!
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true!
also, drinks! (are we sure this isn’t actually Dallas?)
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I’m pretty sure it is.
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which did he compose first? may be he gathered all the loose bits from all his operas and put it into the 4-seasons?
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there’s a reason why they have 4 seasons pizza 😉 (I don’t know the answer!)
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maybe he himself didn….. wait. LEGS.
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ok! I had to look it up:
Dario: 1717
4 seasons: 1723
Seems like this aria is the original.
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Anik
This damned WordPress keeps blocking me and this time I don’t seem to be able to get around it. When asked to put in the names I want to follow I have tried adding Eye Bags, then Anik LaChev – any other names I could try? They don’t have either of those. Everything was fine for the past 2 or 3 weeks and then today pffft. I get your email but get blocked when I click on “read more of this post” or “see all comments”.
Alice
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this got through, Alice!
I am sorry that there are so many issues; what you describe is new to me. When you get the email, you will have to be logged in to read posts or comments (just like now)
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Finally the bass might have a aria?
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music-wise i think this is more fun fun compared to Juditha in music.
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WHAT?! it’s just different. But he has the other aria as well, the one about “don’t get mad, get even, Dario!” (with bassoon).
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jeah i know, but what i mean is finally, 1 hour in, he gets his first aria. meanwhile, Statira got 3 ❤ ❤
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as things should be.
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It certainly is a lot of fun, and I so love Dantone’s conducting!
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this is when we were marvelling how he can tone the harpsichord!
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by tone I meant tame…
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yes, Juditha is much more serious.
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not on Holofernes’ and Vagaus’ part. Those two are giddy throughout.
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But still sort of warrior swagger und seriously in love or dead or both
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and a drink!
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oh, major in your face flirting from Argene 😀
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and Dario is just as dense as Statira, great match.
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I’m not sure he is…
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subtly is her 5th middle name
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😉 when finesse doesn’t work you must bring in the big guns 😀
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by which you mean batting eyelashes, legs, and clawing pillows?
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and that smokey tone…
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Haha, Argene is getting distracted!
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and distracting 😉
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hehe, blinking
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and the way she sits down enxt to him and enarly pushes him off.
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even more fun in real-human size 😉
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God, Galou is so much fun here.
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😉
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I’ve run out of gelato! Haha.
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you are reduced to envying that throw pillow, right? 😉
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“Mia luce” — Hahahahahaaaa
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ahahahaha, this scene, the letter scene? hahah Argene
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Dario and Statira would be a good match of minds?
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oh no, he has another aria?!
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and they cut the duet instead!?
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it’s kinda cool how Vivaldi sprinkles all the shortish arias.
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pillows!
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…yep.
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I’ll pretend I didn’t notice what you wrote earlier (re: pillow = who, me???)
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“Mio core inammorato” = “I will kill you” (and we won’t mind)
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Sulky mad Statira!!
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hihihi, “i want all for myself”
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Aww, I like Statira in fighting mode, just skip the whining…
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but the crying in tune is fun, too.
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First Statira was afraid the hubby will steal her jewels and body parts, now she’s like OMG! she stole him from me!
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great acting, btw (forror che mi divora!)
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“No stealing from me, period!”
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I was surprised she even understood that far!
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well, she can read.
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it was written rather explicitly in the letter no? coz Argene had to spell out for Dario? hihi
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so 5th middle name subtly!
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Actual OTP here: Statira and her earrings.
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it was her ears she worried methinks.
hihi, so fun that little angry scene
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this opera really has great arias.
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yes. Also, hello lute!
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and horns.
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Oh, sunrise on the oilrig is sooo romantic!
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it includes mezzo/soprano duetting, so OF COURSE:
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very nice work, good job both.
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are we going straight to part II? My cats want to eat…
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pause for 3min? resume at :27? is that enough time for kitties? 🙂
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can we make it 5?
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OK
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done, stopped.
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and I can down another fistful of psychedelic cough drops.
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…which might make Prina show up in technicolor!
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can I have one of those too? 😀 I mean, the more contraltos the merrier!
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Give them to me!
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At this rate, I’ll end up convicted for drug trafficking!
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your cats clearly do not appreciate the oilrig sunrise 😉
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it reminded them of grub. A bit worrying 😉
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they spent all their energies on the contraltos, exhausting.
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the right answer, thank you 😉
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i think the extra 2min is for Dehggi to replenish self too, being pillow = super exhausting 😉
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oh, sweet exhaustion 😉
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ok, i’m back, where are we?
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start!
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now clapping, Dantone bowing
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oh, another hillarious scene this one!!
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lovely singing and orchestra, though
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Oh, are we doing the sunrise again? OK
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i just started the 2nd video
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bin man singing!
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and we know if bin man singing, obligatory (not-so)ex-gf will come next
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oil rig chief singing a romance?
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(hihi, i remember having to log in to my British Airways app on phone to check in to my flight during this aria the 2nd afternoon…)
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Anik, Agathe, you with us? Statira is soon to be on scene, after this dude finished saying something…
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(oh, oops, sorry, some pining first, now i remember… was it sunrise? pretty dark here)
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they come off very well in recording. I didn’t remember liking Cirillo this much live. Though, perhaps it was the pillow effect…
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hahaha. jeah, remember i said i like bin (wo)man? and the (not-so)ex-gf , and all bin-(wo)man’s troupe too.
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and I was like no contralto? not interested.
😉
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perhaps.
But I also was never quite that taken with her, and she comes across really well here in recording, very clean and balanced. Impressive.
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Yes, yes, can’t wait for Statira on scene, though I do like the garbage outfit 😉
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mezzos in high visibility vests = new WS trend 😉
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as long as it’s mezzos/contraltos: whatever they like, even if it is denim vests.
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even?! denim vests are classics.
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well, we did have that debate on Prina’s Polinesso outfit.
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what was the debate about? (how was there even a debate regarding that entire outfit??? (blinking smily face here) that outfit is… I demand more gelato first 😀
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whether cut-off denim vests are an acceptable choice of wear to lust after. Or something like that.
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and I thought _I _ was over-intellectualising lust!
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I do like the singing.
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(i also like her *a lot* as Piacere in il Trionfo with Mingardo, the one from la Scala back in jan)
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(jan last year)
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that was her, too?
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and she was Amore in that fencing suit Poppea
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jeah, i recognized her there too. she’s in lots and lots.
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i like the blue belt buckle, or whatever it is blue on their belt
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Haha, Anik, do you know Piggeldy and Frederick? This reminds me of it!
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I know the names, but have no image – will have to look them up!
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Never mind, it’s always about explaining something, like “jealousy”
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Statira on scene!!
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and hands and face expressions!
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we;ll have to do with that, chest is way bundled up 😉
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the things you notice 😉
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See? Garbage clothes are handsome, she says so!
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hihihi, the acting
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cheap date 😀 you gotta love it when the mezzo shows up in her garbage cleaning workclothes and the soprano still throws herself at her AND the contralto isn’t sure if she won’t rather have her than the tenor!
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seems like all the priorities sorted out!
❤ Vivaldi.
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Arpago’s troupe is all women supposed to be women, right?
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no idea, i like their postures and attitudes. better as female of course. right attitude 😉
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the headgears looked more like women (with one exception). I’m here for a band of tough hijabi amazons!
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with Vivaldi I think it’s safe to imagine an all-woman cast, even the tenor and the bass.
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true.
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Statira, you could just flirt with Alinda for a while
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Statira loves the WS happy ❤
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and the WS melts at Statira low loving lines (notes of course.. but may be other lines too 😉 )
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I know, I kept thinking “great singing… I mean, duh.”
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Surprising development, he doesn’t take the girlfriend back?
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we are not yet at the end of the opera!
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more soprano tormento needed!
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she should just date another mezzo/contralto. There are enough around!
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I think it’s a contralto ploy to have the soprano tortured for once 😉
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(the soprano signed the contract for 3 arias! or she’d wreck havoc)
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had a better negotiating agent than the tenor?
(“But I get a bird aria!!!”)
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I read that as “3 years” and it reminded me of Don Ottavio.
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it’s actually quite nice to hear the contrast in sound between Cirillo’s and Mameli’s
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both lovely.
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I want the girlfriend to end up with Statira, everyone else would be too mean for her, she needs to build self-respect!
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yes, no more letting herself treat like a doormat.
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jeah, should have asked for Statira’s hand! SHe’d give too!
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does she have any extra hands left? 😉
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she has by no learned that one steals metaphorical limbs elsewhere.
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gotta love the bird-arias.
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Is this a strange acoustic issue or does Galou sound better lying down, it seemed like it before already.
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I thought it was the fever….
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So it’s not my brain? but then, Dehggi should clearly have that effect, too.
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the WS hive mind in action 😉
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well, I guess between me and Anik you know your answer 😉
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interesting. perhaps it might be where the mount the mic? remember our (I and Dehggi’s) discussion about 2nd night we were *just* at the right height and Galou’s sound came *perfectly* at us. if you’re a bit low / hi then it’s not coming was warm (hence my little comparison of sound beam..)
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Yes, I remember you all saying before that her voice can be difficult to hear live and I thought in the same direction of this being a mic effect. It was the same when she was lying down in one of the first scenes, you can hear the colours better (or it still might be a brain trick, she does look attractive on that couch :-))
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more fun scene!!! attention!!
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but I am DISTRACTED!
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remember the “legato” that turned into “legs” in my writeup? haha.
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I see your point.
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haha, jeah, i was all “wow, Dehggi is … not so subtle”
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Snort…
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“ARGEEEENEEEE!”
😀 😀 😀
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hihihi
and face, and hands, walk, stare
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yes, but — also Galou…
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jeah, both! lots of rewatch needed!
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totally badass with the both of them.
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perfect mood killer!
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( i put that thing up so you can watch on repeat without subtitle distractions.. coz the more you watch the more you see hands & facial expressions from all of them)
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It is fabulous!
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Chuckle, right, the hand gestures are spot on. The way she acts the naivety is so funny, but at the same time Statira is not just a grotesque fun figure, she is a likeable character after all, so well-meaning, living in the moment…
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I wanna do it my way! ❤
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that might make it to a gif
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gif.
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😀 great!
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😀
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running off whining is also great fun, though
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1 of her arias cut right here!
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this aria was cut!
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Statira has three hands, but Niceno does get the bassoon!
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Yes, cool aria!
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I have to say I sang along and made it through the ornament on “sdegno” without passing out.
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Props to you!
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and having the tenor think he’d being made fun of!
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and the bass lecturing him on violence and severity not being the way to romance someone.
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famous last words!
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not that the tenor would listen. Very 19th century already.
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but he gets Juditha’s aria!
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which, sorry, sounds way hotter on a furious mezzo.
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which aria? i know all of Juditha’s arias! 😉
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Agitata infinido flatu
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no, not that pillow!! That’s… desecrating.
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how to desecrate two holy things at once. Low point in the production.
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Haha!
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completely realistic, how everyone just smiles stupidly at Mingardo singing :-))
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(jeah, me smiling stupidly…)
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hihihi, attention, more great scene!!!
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birds and bees!
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a classic.
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how did they let Vivaldi operas languish for centuries???
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they need the contraltos!
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true.
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unfathomable!
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Haha, going on and on about the birds 😀 Flora and Niceno are both doing a great job with acting as well
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(am resisting temptation to rewind..)
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still resisting?
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Like Argene’s headdress!
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she has a headdress?
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the cycling helmet!
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?
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ok, perhaps not from that angle…
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okay, yes, it’s catchy. And look, chainmail!
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there should be a two contralto opera where we can fit that chainmail and the ripped denim vest…
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the “Bring your own kink” opera?!
(neither of those two for me, but I’m sure I can come up with something to add to the mix)
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exactly. Wasn’t that what Monteverdi wanted with Tancredi and Clorinda and somehow never got around the finishing? That’d have two characters, chainmail, lust, death and assorted kinks.
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Crusade Fiction: the renaissance kink subgenre for all those who found pastorale to vanilla?
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Hehe!
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“Sexual Personae”, page 182, on kinky renaissance knights.
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Aren’t renaissance knights a kink by definition…?
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Cosplay.
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mics are not picking up audience secretly giggling
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the video direction isn’t bad at all, though! They get all the important stuff.
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jeah. i think the only we miss is a real size contralto running back and forth singing live about birds and bees
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I propose all DVDs come with real size contraltos (and pillows).
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DVD special edition: comes with pillow.
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I also want a certificate that says “pillow not desecrated by tenor”.
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Definitely.
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you can keep pillow(s), i take the real-size contralto cut-out!
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You started something there, now I can’t stop thinking up special editions of all my favourite productions 😀
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Denim vest? 😉
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I may have crossed my mind, but competing with Hauskittel!
Also: Rinaldo edition with Almirena glasses, Semiramide with pony (of course), Ariodante with faux hawk wig (or styling wax)….I could go on forever! 😀
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I love all of these!
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Hauskittel !!
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I love Statira!
And if you didn’t?
Then I… wouldn’t?
(*I* am giggling)
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Very nicely sung by Mameli!
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yes!!
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Oronte will marry anyone BUT Alinda.
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Yes, this is hard to watch
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but Galou is deliciously evil – “marry her. Or kill her, then you can marry me.”
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and i’d like to commend Oronte’s stance
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yes, Cirillo is really a pleasure to watch here, too. oh, and his garbage posse is back!
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also the way Argene picks up Alinda’s line and sings it back at her.
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THAT is really something.
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a truly great villain, a bit lost on the simpletons around her but at least we get the relentless scheming lessons. She’s nothing if not resourceful! I want the sequel with her breaking out of “the harshest chains” (you know she will, by seducing some helpless guard who will turn into a terrorist or someone at her behest).
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of course!
“L’incoronazione di Argene, finalmente!”
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she murders everyone and has a great vengeance aria at the end, whilst throwing her bloodied hands to the sky 😉 or something. Kinda like here but more satifying.
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and she’ll call up Semiramide for coffee!
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and when Alinda runs in and she’s all “what, Oronte didn’t kill her?”
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sold, will marry Argene and let her murder me in my sleep. Oh, wait, that was another Vivaldi contralto opera.
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he has a point.
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she does come on a little strong and with too little self esteem. But she got the bird aria!
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and now Oronte takes Abras’ aria!
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or might have been Vagaus’s
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I very much like Cirillo’s colour, nice soprano/mezzo hybrid, but she is marketed as mezzo I see?
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jeah, you can hear the contrast when she sings next to V.Cangemi (Arpago) or Mameli (Alinde) right? it’s got this nice mezzo-ish tone to it.
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yes, probably if you measure her against Italian soprano types? But I would also say she is a really light and bright mezzo, bordering on soprano rep.
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What a sacrifice to stay with Statira…
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hihi, more fun scene!!
(lovely to see Mingardo in full human size swatting down)
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also after Niceno turns into an evil rapist, her “Run him through with your sowrd! But, don’t kill him. But still, get your sword!”:
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❤ the duet!
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(you’re 2 min ahead mehthinks)
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yes – beautifully done. I even like the tenor. very well in sync!
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but too short!
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way too short. if anything he doesn’ write enough duets! (hence why the 1st duet cut i so not like!)
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yes, and a contralto/contralto one at that!
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did you see she has a slot on her dress for the flash light?
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you clearly watched this a few times already!
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love Statira’s expression at the “wolf” howl.
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and the flash lights. screen shot & gif
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not scared but “where does this come from?”
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exactly! she’s too simple to be scared, bless her.
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confirmo! 😀
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😀
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you heard the entire auditorium also 😀 ?
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yes!
looking at the costumes now, I wonder how many ethnic groups they managed to mix up and insult at once.
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subversive! hehe.
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the students at the university in Torino designed the costumes, but based on the idea of the stage director of course
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Meanwhile, Argene cleans up at court.
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Okay, I want that last Argene aria for this week’s Sound and Clouds and Thunder.
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i’m sure Lang has it on the right channel 😉
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I think I listened to it 1000 times 😉
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right with you there!
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was wondering if you were singing along that aria?
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YES 😀
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man, I hate that lame way Dario takes off Argene’s gun when she had all the terrorists and binmen shaking!
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yes! Doesn’t make sense.
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that’s why I demand the sequel! plus it kinda scream part II coming up.
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lots more arias. Guest stints by Statira who doesn’t get the scheming again.
Plus Alinda letting Oronte clen the entire oil rig (in a tank top).
And somehow, we’ll work in Prina.
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Prina could be a worthy suitor for… well either of them, I’ll let the librettist surprise me.
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Now we just need a librettist and Dantone to assemble it into a best of Vivaldi arias.
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we could write it ourselves, we’ve heard enough baroque libretti.
“Dear Ottavio Dantone,
After seeing your devotion to Dario and contraltos we came up with an idea you might enjoy…”
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jeah, very weak staging just that end there
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I thought she would shoot him!
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didn’t we all?!
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yes!
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would have solved many problems! (Statira would be sad for 1 min, then offer hands to ALL)
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hahaha! too true! more birds and bees!
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Never mind you wanted to kill me one minute ago, I still love you….
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well, he said he couldn’t do it and didn’t. But it’s an abysmally low bar.
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quite low indeed!
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sadly too true…
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i think you have to file the complaint to Vivaldi’s librettist
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yes, seria convention – in the last 5 minutes, everyone must be married off unless they manage to flee on time or are too evil.
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well, she (SM) did say Baroque operas have happy ending, no soprano committing suicide…
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marrying a jerk may count as “Happy Ending”…?
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isn’t this exact ensemble at the end of practically all Baroque operas?
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yes, it’s from the DIY kit!
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(ps- did you see the comics to prep us for this night? 😉 )
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haha, so there were only Italian subtitles, right?
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should be 4!
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guess I’ll figure out at some point 🙂 I was fine with the Italian one.
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oh, if u open w vlc italian is default but go up and you can choose diffrent subs
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Hihi, a bit strange to see Galou smiling that charmingly after this evening!
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you get the impression she’d still murder you in your sleep, right?
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it’s funny that it’s usually her who gets offed in Juditha!
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she sang Juditha (the role) at Carnegie! and poor M-E. Nesi got offed.
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yes, I know, we needed 6months to extract the writeup from you 😉 but that dress… (blinking smileyface).
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you’re ahead a little bit.. i’m now seeing Oronte taking bow
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hihi, the flowing blue dress, she was having fun
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as were we!
Great fun evening, thank you for suggesting it!
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And thanks a lot for the, ehm, subtitles!
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yes, for them, too! Both of them! 😉
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and on that note, we and the drugs are off to bed. Good night to you all, and thanks for blogging along!
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recover well! am off to haul a chicken back to make soup for the throat. might snap some screen caps.
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Looking forward to the screencaps, and good recovery for your throat!
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Good night/day everyone, and get better, soon, Anik!
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thanks for hosting even in that alternative state of consciousness 😉 after we saw this in the house I became convinced Vivaldi operas need far more exposure.
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i was very happy you joined the fun. wouldnt have been as nice (well, the swooning…) if going alone…
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I’m happy when I can join 🙂 especially in unusual cases like this when we were actually there so it felt a bit like we were _all_ there.
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Agathe, i encourage you to read up on Anik’s post on the live version of this in Bremen , as a starter and recap 🙂
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ps- am happy now i get a direct route to that post. was trying to figure out an algorithm (which sets of posts) but now it’s suggested directly from here 🙂
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found it!
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then she can read our writeups and things will make a lot more sense with this hindsight.
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jeah, esp your libretto and the front photo pix with birds and bees!
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more fun gif 😉
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THAT should come with a warning. Also, thank you. And now how am I supposed to get any work done?!
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…still here.
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😀 😀 😀
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