Monday, March 11, 2024

More opera time pieces

BALLO IN MASCHERA is an easy time-sensitive image. Amelia will meet Riccardo at the gallows, punctually  at mezzanotte.  This is BAllO in 2005.
 
Another easy to find image, FALSTAFF, final scene. Falstaff is counting the night chimes, uno, due, tre, quatro, etc.  He has been told to be at the Forest at mezzanotte. Bryn Terfel in 2005.

At midnight the magic creatures of the night will appear,  again 2005.
Not so easy to find. Violetta/ TRAVIATA is dying. Dr. Grenville comes to check her. To take her pulse he needs a watch. I looked through my entire Traviata library looking for the watch. Only two images. This is an early digital image from 2003, Dr.Grenville is Vaclovas Daunoros. Violetta is Rene Fleming.
From 2008, Paul Plishka is the Doctor, Anja Harteros, the Violetta. You can see the watch fob. Hundreds of images, but only two showing the  watch.   That's show biz.

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