tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post7183574374641176835..comments2024-03-26T07:58:59.761+00:00Comments on I'll think of something later: Discovering Danco through AnsermetDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-88720266923966249492018-09-13T08:49:28.237+01:002018-09-13T08:49:28.237+01:00Can't even entirely agree with that. So much o...Can't even entirely agree with that. So much of Debussy's opera, in the orchestra at least, is indebted to Wagner. Golaud's jealousy becomes Wagnerian. The delicacy and the exquisite layering are French. And if Debussy and Wagner weren't universal in their appeal, we would no longer rank their operas as among the very greatest. Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-26525772515983715952018-09-13T05:18:41.455+01:002018-09-13T05:18:41.455+01:00The plot of an opera is only the skeleton on which...The plot of an opera is only the skeleton on which the flesh of the analysis is hung - the music ( in this case, as you say), but also the way of looking at the world. David Damantnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-3180848238665419002018-09-12T18:41:19.427+01:002018-09-12T18:41:19.427+01:00I've only just twigged that 'dancing' ...I've only just twigged that 'dancing' must have been predictive text for 'Danco'...Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-14142612070462612572018-09-12T10:05:43.304+01:002018-09-12T10:05:43.304+01:00Liam - dancing? Which bit? David - you could equal...Liam - dancing? Which bit? David - you could equally well argue that the theme of the opera is universal. As Richard Jones put it when I asked him to summarise the plot for a cable radio opera channel I used to run, 'it's about two men who fall in love with the same woman, with disastrous results'. The Frenchness is in Debussy's groundbreaking speech-melodic setting of the text. Maeterlinck, of course, was Belgian - that might account for the proto-surrealist aspect.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-86120353680697290062018-09-12T06:32:03.059+01:002018-09-12T06:32:03.059+01:00I know that I have made the point before, but I ho...I know that I have made the point before, but I hold strongly that Pelleas & Melisande reflects most strongly the French view of the world ( to an extent depending on the production). Proust does that as well. I refer to a stance, I suppose more generally reflecting the view embodied in the French language itself. Just as Wagner is such a perfect example of the German Weltanshauung of its time. David Damantnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-72018614833719084032018-09-11T23:50:17.268+01:002018-09-11T23:50:17.268+01:00Yes Suzanne dancing as meilisande was very popular...Yes Suzanne dancing as meilisande was very popular in record clubs in Dublin in. The 1950s<br /><br />LiamAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com