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Italian opera singer
- soprano
- Kingdom of Italy
- opera singer, voice teacher
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2015-10-21 13:09:57
Opera Essentials: Luigi Rossi’s Orpheus at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Mary Bevan and Louise Alder in rehearsal for Orpheus, The Royal Opera and Shakespeare's Globe © 2015 ROH/Shakespeare's Globe. Photograph by Stephen Cummiskey The Story Begins… Orpheus loves Eurydice – but Aristaeus loves her too. Aristaeus calls on the help of Venus, goddess of love, who has her own reasons to hate Orpheus. However, Venus’ attempts to turn Eurydice’s head fall on deaf ears, so in anger she brings about her death by serpent-bite. The Fates advise Orpheus to use his powers as a musician to win Eurydice back from the Underworld – and meanwhile Eurydice’s ghost drives the guilt-ridden Aristaeus into madness… A Spectacular Showpiece Italian composer Luigi Rossi (c1597–1653) is best known for his wonderful songs, and wrote only two operas. The second of these, Orpheus , was written in Paris, where Rossi followed his exiled patron Cardinal Antonio Barberini. Rossi and Barberini arrived at a […]
2012-03-05 13:46:00
Sleeping Sexuality
Friends from Vienna sent me a postcard of the Barberini Faun this weekend. It's an astonishing piece of art. The sleeping man could be by Bernini, even Rodin (even if the hair is a little too formalised). But it's actually a Hellenistic sculpture from around 200BCE. Many of you may know the statue. You can see it in the Munich Glyptothek and there's a copy in the Louvre. Given the expostulations of an Irish cardinal this weekend, I thought this strikingly homoerotic emblem from the past offered a wonderfully counter-cultural retort to all this post-Humanae Vitae nonsense. Having been found in the moat below the Castel Sant'Angelo, Pope Urban VIII came to adore the sleeping satyr. In 1624, he commissioned a restoration of the broken figure and issued a papal bull indicating that it could never leave the Barberini family. The Pope's pride and joy was passed to his nephew […]
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