The paladin Ruggiero and his hippogriff (offspring of a griffon and a mare) fall under her sway the warrior woman Bradamante comes to rescue them. And I’ve just had an idea for an Elizabeth Arden / Báthory parody.) (Forget Elizabeth Arden trafficking with the powers of hell is obviously the best way to keep yourself looking good. This is all illusion Alcina is really a toothless, four-foot-high creature who’s lived longer than anyone in the world, “so hideous that her equal for sheer ugliness and decrepitude could be found nowhere on earth”. A pair of apples, not yet ripe, fashioned in ivory, rose and fell like the sea-swell at times when a gentle breeze stirs the ocean.” (trans. “Snow-white was her neck, milky her breast the neck was round, the breast broad and full. She seems the most beautiful woman in the world, outshining the rest as the sun does the stars her brow is like ivory, her mouth is imbued with cinnabar, her teeth a double row of choicest pearls. On her enchanted island, Alcina makes love to her victims, then (like Circe) turns them into trees, beasts, or liquid springs. Highlights from Vivaldi’s ORLANDO FURIOSO Today, it’s seen as one of the composer’s best works – partly thanks to Scimone’s 1978 Verona production starring Marilyn Horne, which rekindled interest in Vivaldi’s operas. Strohm believes it was only a modest success, while Claudio Scimone thinks it was a hit certainly enough of one for Vivaldi to reuse arias in Atenaide in Florence two years later. It was apparently written in a hurry, according to Reinhard Strohm, with the dramatic contralto Lucia Lancetti in the title role. Vivaldi alone composed two different operas based on the Orlando story: Orlando finto pazzo, only his second known opera, in 1714, a flop and the 1727 work. The story is based on two episodes in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, an epic poem that sings of “knights and ladies, of love and arms, of courtly chivalry, of courageous deeds”.Īristo’s poem (and Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata, which features many of the same characters) inspired operas by Lully ( Roland), Handel ( Alcina), and Haydn ( Orlando paladino), among others.
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