Yeah. I just wind up with a feeling of "Renato deserved a better king/employer and friend." And I agree, Amelia might have stopped him but I don't think Riccardo would have stopped.
Thank you, I'm glad that fic worked for you! I think partly I needed to make myself see what Renato could have seen in Riccardo, or I wouldn't have been able to write convincing shipfic for my recipient.
Hmm. Now I'm trying to think of operas with good pairs of friends, besides Don Carlo. There's La Clemenza di Tito, sort of -- Sesto betrays Tito but he and Annio don't betray each other? Or Gennaro and Orsino in Lucrezia Borgia -- they're tenor and mezzo rather than tenor and baritone, but they do have a great friendship duet.
Oh, that's jogging my memory -- I think I might have her on a Mozart highlights CD. I should go look for that later.
Thanks, glad you like it.!I know I have some other silly opera plot summaries on my LJ/DW, but I don't seem to have made a special tag for them.
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Date: 2018-08-23 05:47 am (UTC)Yeah. I just wind up with a feeling of "Renato deserved a better king/employer and friend." And I agree, Amelia might have stopped him but I don't think Riccardo would have stopped.
Thank you, I'm glad that fic worked for you! I think partly I needed to make myself see what Renato could have seen in Riccardo, or I wouldn't have been able to write convincing shipfic for my recipient.
Hmm. Now I'm trying to think of operas with good pairs of friends, besides Don Carlo. There's La Clemenza di Tito, sort of -- Sesto betrays Tito but he and Annio don't betray each other? Or Gennaro and Orsino in Lucrezia Borgia -- they're tenor and mezzo rather than tenor and baritone, but they do have a great friendship duet.
Oh, that's jogging my memory -- I think I might have her on a Mozart highlights CD. I should go look for that later.
Thanks, glad you like it.!I know I have some other silly opera plot summaries on my LJ/DW, but I don't seem to have made a special tag for them.