Interlude, with Opera
Aug. 6th, 2008 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaI know what you're asking.
Where's that entry from yesterday? you say.
I'll tell you.
I sent it to the eternal void. I wanted to say "Rydia THIS!" to Tritoch in the strategy guide when he was blown to oblivion by Fire 2 from Terra (or was it Celes?) but I didn't take a screenshot of the death of Tritoch. Then I wanted to say it to the last entry, but that wouldn't make any sense and I'd look like an idiot. Like you don't already. Shut up.
So, what did I miss?
Some rain. Some weather that spit like it was going to rain, but they didn't rain and they didn't storm and they didn't go away. And later the sky looked like someone spilled a bottle of ink on it.
I mean the entry, mouthbreather.
Oh. A manifesto of Mr. Antipyrine that you can find on everything2, a quote by Scarletdeath that you can officially find nowhere and unofficially find somewhere that I will show you when I am arsed enough to upload it, and me playing with fonts. Now will you please get out of here and get back to feeling sorry for yourself?
Anyway.
Antonin Dvorák - Carnival Overture
I'd do the thingus with the r, but I don't know how and if I can't be arsed to upload something about Scarletdeath, I can't be arsed to mess around in the character pallete.
Uh, right. Not an opera.
The operas here have the theme of obsessive love and its consequences.
Jacques Offenbach - Les contes d'Hoffmann
Hoffmann falls in love with an automaton that sings but winds down before finishing, gets laughed at, gets drunk, pisses off some people, gets drunk some more, gets seduced by someone, swears never to fall in love again.
Antonin Dvorák - Rusalka
See The Little Mermaid.
I need to see if the mermaid in the Andersen tale loses her voice.
W.A. Mozart - Don Giovanni
This is how everything2 describes it.
An opera written by Mozart, based on the Don Juan fable, which is basically a tale of a promiscuous man attempting to get laid.
The da Ponte libretto was based loosely on Moliere's Don Juan. The Don Juan story was first published in 1630 in the form of a play by a friar named Tirso de Molina, entitled El Burlador de Sevilla Y Convivado de Pietra (The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest). Since then, many interpretations of this story have been written by authors of many nationalities such as Jean-Baptiste Moliére (Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre, 1665), Lord Byron (Don Juan, 1821), Aleksandr Pushkin (Kamennyj Gost', 1830), and Baudelaire (Don Juan aux enfers, 1861).
The main characters are Don Giovanni, his servant Leporello, Donna Anna, Don Ottavio (Anna's fiance), The Commendatore (Anna's father), Donna Elvira, Zerlina (a peasant girl), and Masetto (Zerlina's fiancee)
The opera opens with Don Giovanni escaping from Donna Anna's home. He has failed to seduce her, and she cries out. As a matter of honor, her elderly father, the Commendatore, challenges him to a duel, in which Don Giovanni slays him.
Don Giovanni then travels around looking for more opportunities for seduction, which he finds at a peasant wedding between commoners Zerlina and Masetto. He promises Zerlina love and marriage, and as a nobleman, nearly carries her away. However, Donna Elvira, one of Don Giovanni's previous conquests, reappears and warns Zerlina of his reputation. After his failure with Zerlina, Don Giovanni plans a party to lure in not only Zerlina but every peasant woman in the area to add to his book of conquest. Zerlina and Masetto end up attending. Donna Anna, Don Ottavio, and Donna Elvira arrive at the party disguised in masks, planning to expose Don Giovanni; they are not disappointed, their opportunity soon arrives. When Giovanni suddenly forces Zerlina into a room, Zerlina screams and Masetto rushes to rescue her. To save his reputation, Giovanni tries to pin the blame on Leporello, but no one is fooled. They proclaim that Don Giovanni will be punished by Heaven for his sinfulness.
After escaping from the party without injury, Don Giovanni meets up with Leporello in a graveyard, where the Commendatore's statue demands that he repents. When Don Giovanni refuses, he is dragged down to hell.
postlude:
I met some guy on the Red Line wearing a shirt that said "friends don't let friends vote republican" who was passing around a petition for alternative energy and against Big Oil. I already said what I thought in ... Lumen? And I won't repeat it here.
Lesson Learned: Eyes Like Brontide is quite possibly the best album of 2008.
Burning Question: Why do I still see lots of SUVs?
Where's that entry from yesterday? you say.
I'll tell you.
I sent it to the eternal void. I wanted to say "Rydia THIS!" to Tritoch in the strategy guide when he was blown to oblivion by Fire 2 from Terra (or was it Celes?) but I didn't take a screenshot of the death of Tritoch. Then I wanted to say it to the last entry, but that wouldn't make any sense and I'd look like an idiot. Like you don't already. Shut up.
So, what did I miss?
Some rain. Some weather that spit like it was going to rain, but they didn't rain and they didn't storm and they didn't go away. And later the sky looked like someone spilled a bottle of ink on it.
I mean the entry, mouthbreather.
Oh. A manifesto of Mr. Antipyrine that you can find on everything2, a quote by Scarletdeath that you can officially find nowhere and unofficially find somewhere that I will show you when I am arsed enough to upload it, and me playing with fonts. Now will you please get out of here and get back to feeling sorry for yourself?
Anyway.
Antonin Dvorák - Carnival Overture
I'd do the thingus with the r, but I don't know how and if I can't be arsed to upload something about Scarletdeath, I can't be arsed to mess around in the character pallete.
Uh, right. Not an opera.
The operas here have the theme of obsessive love and its consequences.
Jacques Offenbach - Les contes d'Hoffmann
Hoffmann falls in love with an automaton that sings but winds down before finishing, gets laughed at, gets drunk, pisses off some people, gets drunk some more, gets seduced by someone, swears never to fall in love again.
Antonin Dvorák - Rusalka
See The Little Mermaid.
I need to see if the mermaid in the Andersen tale loses her voice.
W.A. Mozart - Don Giovanni
This is how everything2 describes it.
An opera written by Mozart, based on the Don Juan fable, which is basically a tale of a promiscuous man attempting to get laid.
The da Ponte libretto was based loosely on Moliere's Don Juan. The Don Juan story was first published in 1630 in the form of a play by a friar named Tirso de Molina, entitled El Burlador de Sevilla Y Convivado de Pietra (The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest). Since then, many interpretations of this story have been written by authors of many nationalities such as Jean-Baptiste Moliére (Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre, 1665), Lord Byron (Don Juan, 1821), Aleksandr Pushkin (Kamennyj Gost', 1830), and Baudelaire (Don Juan aux enfers, 1861).
The main characters are Don Giovanni, his servant Leporello, Donna Anna, Don Ottavio (Anna's fiance), The Commendatore (Anna's father), Donna Elvira, Zerlina (a peasant girl), and Masetto (Zerlina's fiancee)
The opera opens with Don Giovanni escaping from Donna Anna's home. He has failed to seduce her, and she cries out. As a matter of honor, her elderly father, the Commendatore, challenges him to a duel, in which Don Giovanni slays him.
Don Giovanni then travels around looking for more opportunities for seduction, which he finds at a peasant wedding between commoners Zerlina and Masetto. He promises Zerlina love and marriage, and as a nobleman, nearly carries her away. However, Donna Elvira, one of Don Giovanni's previous conquests, reappears and warns Zerlina of his reputation. After his failure with Zerlina, Don Giovanni plans a party to lure in not only Zerlina but every peasant woman in the area to add to his book of conquest. Zerlina and Masetto end up attending. Donna Anna, Don Ottavio, and Donna Elvira arrive at the party disguised in masks, planning to expose Don Giovanni; they are not disappointed, their opportunity soon arrives. When Giovanni suddenly forces Zerlina into a room, Zerlina screams and Masetto rushes to rescue her. To save his reputation, Giovanni tries to pin the blame on Leporello, but no one is fooled. They proclaim that Don Giovanni will be punished by Heaven for his sinfulness.
After escaping from the party without injury, Don Giovanni meets up with Leporello in a graveyard, where the Commendatore's statue demands that he repents. When Don Giovanni refuses, he is dragged down to hell.
postlude:
I met some guy on the Red Line wearing a shirt that said "friends don't let friends vote republican" who was passing around a petition for alternative energy and against Big Oil. I already said what I thought in ... Lumen? And I won't repeat it here.
Lesson Learned: Eyes Like Brontide is quite possibly the best album of 2008.
Burning Question: Why do I still see lots of SUVs?
