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Apr. 11th, 2009 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
polutropeWow so I knew I had a certain inclination to obscure operas, but The Chessboard Fugitives is really the farthest I've gone. No google hits, or at least not descriptive of the opera; at most one hit for the composer (George Courouros, b. 1942). But it's really pretty:
and so is Mata Katsuli's voice.
This has a very strange tonality, and again Irini Karaianni's voice is lovely:
So yeah. And it really makes me sad that I'll never find a recording.
ETA, two minutes later: Τιμή means literal "price" now. Achilles is ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE.
ETA AGAIN: yeah yeah yeah I am Mata Katsuli's biggest fan, whatever. More importantly, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE:
ETA son of ETA: well, the people at the bottom are really animals, and not wearing gas masks, as I first thought. That part actually does makes sense, since Alcina, as a descendant of Circe, turns people into animals, although it's not exactly how I would have done it.
and so is Mata Katsuli's voice.
This has a very strange tonality, and again Irini Karaianni's voice is lovely:
So yeah. And it really makes me sad that I'll never find a recording.
ETA, two minutes later: Τιμή means literal "price" now. Achilles is ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE.
ETA AGAIN: yeah yeah yeah I am Mata Katsuli's biggest fan, whatever. More importantly, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE:
ETA son of ETA: well, the people at the bottom are really animals, and not wearing gas masks, as I first thought. That part actually does makes sense, since Alcina, as a descendant of Circe, turns people into animals, although it's not exactly how I would have done it.
