[lit-ideas] Il Sonnambulo
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- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 20:30:31 EST
Now, some journalists!
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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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