[lit-ideas] Il Sonnambulo

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MONICA ATTARD:
And what's your favourite language for opera?

DAME  JOAN SUTHERLAND:

Well of  course, Italian and French.
 
        Italian first and then French. 
 
        German becomes too  guttural; too many consonants 
        as with English 
 
       but the French and Italian flow  so beautifully.
 
 
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I was reading the bio of Bellini the other day (not the painter, but the  
composer of La Sonnambula -- I was surprised that the inspiration of this was a 
 
flop by one composer called
Antonio Speranza (Verdi quotes him
 
biblioteche2.comune.parma.it/dm/2044.htm 
 
) called "Il Sonnambulo").

Bellini describes his days in London, and he had a bit of fun.
 
He tells us how he found himself at Drury Lane where Jenny Lind was singing  
(in Italian)
La Sonnambula, while the rest of the cast he couldn't understand one word  of 
what they
were singing. He makes a passing remark about the sounds of the English  
language, but 
I don't have the quotation to hand.
 
Cheers,
 
JL
 
 
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