[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday with Manon
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 21:03:55 EDT
In a message dated 5/10/2009 2:25:22 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Earlier this week I was welcomed home by a brambling in peak form,
perched on the arbor that shelters the two vines which make up the
Chateau Ritchie estate, one cabernet sauvignon and the other not. I
don't recall ever seeing or hearing such a bird here. I have a
theory he was attracted to a surplus cd I had hung on the trellis.
Usually I don't give a toss about birds, or dinosaurs, but a
wonderful anything is worth noting and this guy was so full of the
joys, so absolutely convinced that his job was to sing and sing until
all the Douglas Firs burst, I count him the real thing. Days later I
saw him in the front garden digging the beetles and so I blessed him
with a wish: May he live long enough to capture the heart of
Emmanuelle Beart, and fly down to her spring with me.
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Not clear why the header.
Oddly, there are _two_ manon operas:
-- the Massenet
-- the Puccini
I was reading that 'manon' is French short for 'prostitute', but I forget
why.
The opera's last act is indeed set in French America: Louisiana.
Cheers,
J. L. Speranza
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