For a personal project, I am looking for the name of any operatic characters (preferably female) who are sent into exile as part of the plot. Nothing obscure, please, as that would defeat the purpose. Eboli from Don Carlo or Puccini's Manon might do, but can you think of any others?
Thanks.
Katerina Izmailova (internal exile to prison in Siberia)
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on October 16, 2010, 09:57:04 AM
Katerina Izmailova (internal exile to prison in Siberia)
Thanks. A little off the standard Verdi-Puccini-Wagner mainstream for my needs, but a possibility.
Is Monteverdi in the mix? In Poppea, Drusilla and Ottone are sent into exile...
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Quote from: Gurn Blanston on October 16, 2010, 10:47:38 AM
Is Monteverdi in the mix? In Poppea, Drusilla and Ottone are sent into exile...
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Again, a little too off the beaten path, and that's two characters. So far, Eboli and Manon seem my best bets. Thanks.
Quote from: Sforzando on October 16, 2010, 09:21:30 AM
For a personal project, I am looking for the name of any operatic characters (preferably female) who are sent into exile as part of the plot. Nothing obscure, please, as that would defeat the purpose. Eboli from Don Carlo or Puccini's Manon might do, but can you think of any others?
Thanks.
The Queen of the Night at the end of Zauberflote?
I think I might need some help with this but in Macbeth doesn't the army go away and camouflage themselves until Birnum Wood comes to______?
Malcolm does willingly quit Scotland for safety's sake, 'tis true.
Nice to see you about, Anne!
How about Carmen? For misbehaving she is to be imprisoned which merely gave her some time to work out her escape in privacy with the soldier's help.
In Turandot, Calaf, Timur and Liu are already in exile at the start of the opera.
Quote from: Anne on October 16, 2010, 05:31:53 PM
How about Carmen? For misbehaving she is to be imprisoned which merely gave her some time to work out her escape in privacy with the soldier's help.
Of course the problem with using Carmen is that she never really gets exiled.
I do appreciate everyone's help. So far I think Eboli remains closest to what I need. The fact that she is cut off permanently from her Queen is just the shading I want.
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on October 16, 2010, 10:47:38 AM
Is Monteverdi in the mix? In Poppea, Drusilla and Ottone are sent into exile...
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And what about Ottavia in the same opera? She was the first one that came to mind when I saw this thread title. Her farewell to Rome is one of the highlights of the score.
Anaes in part 2 of The Trojans enters Carthage as an exile from Troy. Perhaps he is really a refugee. Ditto I suppose for Donizetti's Maria Stuarda.
Mike
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In Verdi's rarely performed early opera I Due Foscari, the son of the Doge of Venice is sent into exile on trumped up charges by his enemies,leading ultimately to his death,and that of his father from grief. Not exactly a feel good opera, but a powerful one.
There's an excellent Philips recording conducted by the late Lamberto Gardelli,who did so much to champion neglected Italian operas,but I'm not sure if it's still available. Check arkivmusic.com,the best website for hard to find classical recordings. And their overall selection of classical CDs and DVDs is amazing. No classical CD and DVD collector should miss it.
Quote from: Superhorn on October 20, 2010, 07:51:20 AM
In Verdi's rarely performed early opera I Due Foscari, the son of the Doge of Venice is sent into exile on trumped up charges by his enemies,leading ultimately to his death,and that of his father from grief. Not exactly a feel good opera, but a powerful one.
There's an excellent Philips recording conducted by the late Lamberto Gardelli,who did so much to champion neglected Italian operas,but I'm not sure if it's still available. Check arkivmusic.com,the best website for hard to find classical recordings. And their overall selection of classical CDs and DVDs is amazing. No classical CD and DVD collector should miss it.
These are wonderful studio recordings.
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What is this shady project? My completely arbitrary guess, only because I am also participating is - NaNoWriMo.
Quote from: Sforzando on October 16, 2010, 10:26:07 AM
Thanks. A little off the standard Verdi-Puccini-Wagner mainstream for my needs, but a possibility.
Isn't the obvious one Bruenhilde -- sent into exile away from Valhalla by her father?
Quote from: Sforzando on October 16, 2010, 09:21:30 AM
Puccini's Manon
Also, Massenet's
Manon, same character.
Quote from: Wanderer on October 30, 2010, 12:24:23 PM
Also, Massenet's Manon, same character.
I know. But being exiled to a desert in Louisiana somehow sounds better than - well, wherever Massenet's heroine was sent. Brünnhilde is a good idea too. Actually Parsifal, exiled to wander for an entire intermission between Acts 2-3, might work as well.
Thanks for all the suggestions.
...and speaking in Wagnerian tones, not exactly an exile, but Freia's essentially-Wotan-sanctioned taking by F+F and her return are so strikingly portrayed in the score that it's hard to resist mentioning them.
Which one is that in Luke (embarrassed by y ignorance of the Ring story)
Rheingold - she's taken as payment when Wotan won't cough up to Fasolt and Fafnir Inc for their construction work on his new pad. Without her the gods wither and grow old, so it's to get her back again that Wotan and Loge slip off to Nibelheim to nick the gold off of Alberich. Charming.
Those wacky Teutons! The creators of screwball opera!
Quote from: Luke on November 04, 2010, 05:53:02 AM
Rheingold - she's taken as payment when Wotan won't cough up to Fasolt and Fafnir Inc for their construction work on his new pad.
Actually, she was the initially promised payment (which Wotan never had any intention of honoring) — without which the very large brothers probably wouldn't have built the mansion to begin with, and then Wotan send Loge scrambling all over creation for a substitute.
I think I would enjoy seeing Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid from the Harry Potter films) cast as Fasolt. He would at least be much larger than the giants one sees on stage.
Except that that was done using CGI trickery - he's not actually that tall.
You probably would not much enjoy him singing, though he used to be able to pass as a rock musician.
Mike
Quote from: Sforzando on November 04, 2010, 02:38:19 PM
I think I would enjoy seeing Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid from the Harry Potter films) cast as Fasolt. He would at least be much larger than the giants one sees on stage.
Coincidently, I saw
Rheingold last night; a new co-production combing the forces of Ludwigshafen and Halle. There was no attempt to depict F & F as giants. Here they are grabbing Freia (dressed like a 30s Krankenschwester--appropriate, I guess, since she does keep the gods healthy):
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Sarge
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on November 04, 2010, 06:00:31 AM
Those wacky Teutons! The creators of screwball opera!
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"chortle")
Sarge
Wagner really didn't want to make it easy on his directors did he!
Quote from: Guido on November 06, 2010, 04:52:28 AM
Except that that was done using CGI trickery - he's not actually that tall.
I know. Neither was Frances de la Tour as the French Headmistress. (Of that I can be sure, 'cause I saw her on stage in "The History Boys.")
In Gounod's Romeo et Juliette, Romeo gets sent into exile after killing Tybalt.
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on November 06, 2010, 07:29:17 AM
("chortle")
Sarge
It's not an authentic reproduction of the Henning chortle if you don't use the Georgia font Sarge. ;D
Quote from: mamascarlatti on November 14, 2010, 03:00:59 PM
In Gounod's Romeo et Juliette, Romeo gets sent into exile after killing Tybalt.
Very good.
OK, here's another one (and I really can't think of an example): an operatic character who vanishes into thin air, and leaves no trace behind. Again, the more familiar the opera, the better. Thanks.
Quote from: Sforzando on November 16, 2010, 06:23:53 PM
OK, here's another one (and I really can't think of an example): an operatic character who vanishes into thin air, and leaves no trace behind. Again, the more familiar the opera, the better. Thanks.
Apart from ghosts, you mean? (e.g. Quint at the end of The Turn of the Screw)
Quote from: Luke on November 17, 2010, 12:26:10 PM
Apart from ghosts, you mean? (e.g. Quint at the end of The Turn of the Screw)
How about Fiorello in the Barber of Seville. Apparently, he's the Count's right hand man at the start; then after the aubade and choral scene that starts the opera, he exits and is not only not seen again, but never mentioned either.
Quote from: Luke on November 17, 2010, 12:26:10 PM
Apart from ghosts, you mean? (e.g. Quint at the end of The Turn of the Screw)
Not quite right, but thanks.
Quote from: kishnevi on November 17, 2010, 07:23:35 PM
How about Fiorello in the Barber of Seville. Apparently, he's the Count's right hand man at the start; then after the aubade and choral scene that starts the opera, he exits and is not only not seen again, but never mentioned either.
Maybe he turns up again as Figaro. But he's too minor a character for anyone to notice or care.
what are these for?
Is his last name La Guardia?
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