Opera Over The Rainbow
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La Forza dell'Amore by El Staplador (elstaplador)
Fandoms: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime), The Opera Companion - George Martin
23 Jan 2017
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There's more to Enrico Bruni's opera La Forza dell'Amore (The Power of Love) than the famous Stammi vicino. A noted authority offers a quick synopsis, with a few gossipy digressions along the way.
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- Part 1 of Opera Over The Rainbow
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Le Donne di Llangollen by El Staplador (elstaplador)
Fandoms: 18th Century CE RPF, The Opera Companion - George Martin
09 Mar 2017
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With Le Donne di Llangollen Rossini returned to the theme of young love outwitting familial opposition that had served him so well with Il Barbiere di Siviglia. He may perhaps have been recalling Beethoven's advice to him never to write anything but opera buffa. Hoping to capitalise on the success that Donizetti had enjoyed with operas set in the British Isles, and that of his own La Donna del Lago, he and Gaetano Rossi borrowed the details of a noted scandal. So noted, in fact, that nobody ever questions the fact that the Ladies never reach Llangollen within the action of the opera. It doesn't matter. We all know how it ends.
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- Part 2 of Opera Over The Rainbow
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Un fior che nasce e muore: two studies in Hanahaki disease by El Staplador (elstaplador)
Fandoms: La Traviata - Verdi/Piave, Zenda Novels - Anthony Hope, The Opera Companion - George W. Martin, Gilbert & Sullivan & Related Fandoms
26 Jul 2017
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Opera has always presented a more overt demand for suspension of disbelief than most other dramatic forms, and never more so than with its ongoing fascination with plots based on hanahaki disease. The middle of the nineteenth century saw the emergence of this tidy, sentimental metaphor for tuberculosis – a gory, unpleasant and all too real ailment – and it has lingered ever since. Blood was replaced with roses, hacking coughs with immaculate arias, lingering deaths with graceful swoons.
Chapter 1: Violetta, o, la traviata (Giuseppe Verdi and F. M. Piave)
Chapter 2: Michael of Strelsau (Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan and Julian Sturgis)Series
- Part 3 of Opera Over The Rainbow