Moulin Rouge...Opera...The Musical...
So, I was in my Western Music (history) lecture the other day, and we were talking about Italian Opera, particularly that of Verdi.
Now, Verdi, Italian dude who lived from 1813-1901 wrote a stack of cool operas and some other stuff (including a Requiem that rocks my socks). During his middle period, he wrote three operas, Rigoletto; Il Trovatore and La Traviata.
So, the lecturer is having a brief gabble about what the plots were.
Rigoletto and Il Trovatore: actually, she didn't say much about these two.
And then she gets to Traviata. A courtesan (Violetta). Falls in love with this guy (Alfredo). And she has a dilemma about whether she can actually love him, because she is this creature of the underworld, this courtesan. Everlasting Love and stuff.
Moulin Rouge much?
Or should I say re MR, "La Traviata, much?!"
When she said Courtesan, and about her falling in love with some other guy illegally...well yeah, big bells going off and stuff.
And just thinking about it now, I plug in MR and LT on google. A fair few hits in reviews. Lots o ppl think the same...Yet Luhrmann claims (in one of the reviews) that it was in fact based on Orpheus et Euridicee. MY ASS. Apart from vague underworld illusions and Christian wanting to bring Satine up from the underworld, well, the relation is tenuous :P
Here's a link or so:
From the Guardian
Now, Verdi, Italian dude who lived from 1813-1901 wrote a stack of cool operas and some other stuff (including a Requiem that rocks my socks). During his middle period, he wrote three operas, Rigoletto; Il Trovatore and La Traviata.
So, the lecturer is having a brief gabble about what the plots were.
Rigoletto and Il Trovatore: actually, she didn't say much about these two.
And then she gets to Traviata. A courtesan (Violetta). Falls in love with this guy (Alfredo). And she has a dilemma about whether she can actually love him, because she is this creature of the underworld, this courtesan. Everlasting Love and stuff.
Moulin Rouge much?
Or should I say re MR, "La Traviata, much?!"
When she said Courtesan, and about her falling in love with some other guy illegally...well yeah, big bells going off and stuff.
And just thinking about it now, I plug in MR and LT on google. A fair few hits in reviews. Lots o ppl think the same...Yet Luhrmann claims (in one of the reviews) that it was in fact based on Orpheus et Euridicee. MY ASS. Apart from vague underworld illusions and Christian wanting to bring Satine up from the underworld, well, the relation is tenuous :P
Here's a link or so:
From the Guardian