Okay - I need help! and coffee!

[lesyeuxverts]

Right ... so, I would like a European city that has an old opera house and a large river. Details would be lovely, too ... if you know anything about the city, or the opera house, or you know, generally useful details. I'm not necessarily looking for "Oh, the ----- Opera House is on ---- Street, just between the bakery and the library," but more along the lines of details useful for writing, you know. Are the chandeliers absolutely fabulous, is it entirely red velvet and gilt, has it been restored, etc.

If you have any brilliant ideas of what opera(s) that I might choose, that would be fabulous as well. Simply fabulous ... oh, I do heart you muchly, darling flist.

Also, has the genealogy craze happened in Europe? If you want to trace your ancestors back to, I don't know, the 17th century, is it possible? How would you go about doing it?

While you are being so terribly helpful, can you interpret my strange results and do all of my experiments for today so that I can write? Pretty please? :)

Comments

[theentwife.insanejournal.com]

Well, that certainly puts a number of limitations on available operas, since you're basicly talking baroque opera there, not really even Mozart from the timeframe you want. So you have a choice of Handel, Handel, Handel and . . . Handel. With a bit of Monteverdi and Purcell tossed on for garnish. Maybe some Rameau if you are feeling exotic.

Given your betrayal & love story requirements, I'd suggest Dido and Aeneas by Purcell. It also has the advantage of being in English and having a lovely lament by Dido when she realizes her betrayal. The male role isn't that major, compared to something like Handel's Rinaldo, but it's the one that comes to mind as the best fit for your requirements.


Persephone

[lesyeuxverts.insanejournal.com]

Ooooh ... this looks so freaking perfect, it's hard to believe ... wow. Thank you so much! This is amazing ... I'm really inspired to write now, yay! :D