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Detlev Glanert’s new work is musically impressive, though the staging and story are problematic
2023-10-02 15:27:29
Giulio Caccini, 2023
This Week in Classical Music: October 2, 2023. Giulio Caccini. During the last couple of months, we’ve published several entries on two subjects: one, the musical transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque and early opera, and another, about some unsavory but talented characters in music. The protagonist of today’s entry falls into both categories. Giulio Caccini was born in Rome on October 8th, 1551. One episode that puts him into the “unsavory” category happened in 1576 when Caccini was in Florence employed by the court of Grand Duke Francesco I de’ Medici. Francesco had a brother, Pietro, who was married to the beautiful Eleonora (Leonora) di Garzia di Toledo. Pietro was known to be gloomy and violent, the marriage was unhappy, and Leonora had several affairs. Caccini, attempting to curry favors from the Duke’s family, spied on Leonora and then denounced her and her lover, Bernardino Antinori, to Pietro. Pietro […]
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[…] of Parzival) travels to North Africa, and the Vintage Books 1961 English translation of the story mentions Morocco twice. Wagner did not travel to Morocco, yet alone Tinmel, so any connection between the Almhad mosque and Parsifal is purely conjecture. But there are other fascinating speculative links between the opera and Islam. One view, which originates from Wolfram von Eschenbach, is that the legend of the Grail was originally found in an Arabic manuscript in Toledo. It has been postulated that Amfortas and the evil magician Klingsor represent Christianity and Islam respectively, while the absence of women from Parsifal's ideal society has been interpreted as reflecting the values of orthodox Islam. Even more contentiously, as recounted in a post which posed the question Are we ready for an Islamic interpretation of Wagner? the controversial Muslim cleric and prolific author Abdalqadir as-Sufi - also known as Ian Dallas - […]
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