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2014-11-14 19:29:38
L'elisir d'amore musical highlight: ‘Udite, udite, o rustici!’
Ambrogio Maestri and The Royal Opera Chorus in L'elisir d'amore © Catherine Ashmore/ROH 2012 Quack, charlatan, cheat – fibber, peddler and all-round swindler – meet Dr Dulcamara! Or rather, let him introduce himself . ‘Udite, udite, o rustici’ (Listen up, you villagers!) is Dulcamara’s grand entrance to Donizetti ’s L’elisir d’amore . He’s arrived fashionably late; we’ve already met the three other main characters and got to grips with their convoluted love triangle (hopeless Nemorino loves confident Adina ; she loves him but doesn’t realize it and has decided to hitch herself to passing pompous soldier Belcore). But none of that matters to Dulcamara – he’s here to put on a show and make a fast buck while he's at it. He’s sent an advance party to rally an audience, armed with a cornet and a fanfare. You might at first be reminded of the bombastic Belcore and his […]
2012-02-10 00:00:02
[…] of Romeo and Juliet, from the grateful author of Tristan and Isolde."The gratitude was genuine. Not only does Tristan echo Berlioz's Roméo in several places, but the whole experience was vital for Wagner, revealing a new kind of music, and driving him deep within himself, to protect and assert his creative identity. His conclusion was that Berlioz's formal solution to setting the play was as wrong as his music was revelatory.The French music critic Paul Scudo, who detested both of them, called Berlioz and Wagner "enemy brothers sprung from Beethoven's demented old age". For once there is a grain of truth in Scudo's ravings. For both composers, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was the true beginning of modern music: Beethoven had in effect recognised that the symphony as an art form had reached its ultimate stage and could go no further, and must merge into a new kind of drama. For Berlioz, […]
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