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Theodora Elucubrare ([personal profile] polutrope) wrote2009-04-11 08:44 pm

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Wow 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.

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