Purcell wouldn't obey either the Italian nor the French dictates of the genre, including dance and whatnot. There are lots of jokes in 'King Arthur' and 'The Faerie Queen', though.
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
bollocks to Italo-Gallic hipsters tho
― aboulia banks (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
I remeber reading that he thumbed his nose partly because English audiences wanted something a bit more rollicking than the French and you know, ya gotta pay the bills.
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
Dido and Aeneas is heart-breakingly beautiful tho, i feel like the staticness of his stories/staging is the unoperatic touch if anything
― aboulia banks (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
Poor Dido...
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 29 April 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 30 April 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link