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This has been a good weekend. Friday morning and several hours this afternoon I spent with my good friend Peter Gould, one of the most incredible people ever to walk the face of the earth. Last night went toward the Met's production of Puccini's Turandot, where Krassimira Stoyanova as Liù blew the top of my head off (metaphorically; she wasn't quite that loud). And in defiance of Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazousai, thank you very much, I still like Euripides.

On to what you like. Since I have not yet figured out how to set up livejournal polls, is there something of which people would like to see more at this site? "Assyriology" and "Silly Quizzes" are perfectly acceptable answers . . .

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[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

I also found Liù's behavior more understandable when I realized she's acknowledging that Calaf, her love for whom is so central to who she is, is now totally out of her reach whether she wins or loses. That sort of certainty would seem to make drastic gestures easier, particularly at that sort of age.

The Turandots I've heard have all come across as spending much more time wandering around the stratosphere than Liù does, though pitchwise they may be similar. I'm not overly familiar with how to describe voices, but I've always heard Turandot played in a way I found sort of high and thin, though in technical fact neither of these may have been true. I've always been someone annoyed with this, since I think she should sound as attractive as she looks and as interesting a person as Liù, or the sort lacks some intuitive sense -- she always sounds to me royal and slightly hysterically frigid. I always assumed this was just a conceptual disagreement between me and Puccini, but maybe there are other ways to do it.

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

That should be "whether he wins or loses".

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

And "or the story lacks some intuitive sense". *sigh*

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This Turandot had (as you may guess from my above comments) a heavier, much more edged voice than Liù, who was sort of a tensile, sinewy shimmer. Part of my original complaint . . .

(Is okay. It's getting late.)