Frederick the Great, discussion post 14

[cahn]

Check out the opera clips at Rheinsberg!

(both the real-life place, which selenak found out hosts a festival for young opera singers! and the community rheinsberg)

Also! our fandom has been producing lovely fic at a rapid clip (okay, well, selenak has):

Sibling dysfunction: Promises to Keep and My Brother Narcissus

Sibling dysfunction PLUS sibling M/M love triangle: The moon flies face to face with me

VOLTAIRE! Between the hour and the age

Comments

Re: Leopold Mozart

[cahn]

:D

It's called a Singspiel? I thought those were when some of the lines are spoken. Or does recitatif count?

Re: Leopold Mozart

[selenak]

*shrugs* Singspiel is as Singspiel does. I learned at school that spoken lines make the difference, too, but then I've seen stagings of Figaro where there is spoken dialogue instead of recitative (like the one in English I linked in my journal last year). Also, I suspect it may have been called a Singspiel on the poster because that's what Joseph wanted to encourage (which is also why it's called the Deutsches Nationaltheater and not the Hofburg Theatre as it will be called again post Joseph). Note that the poster also says that the book to the new Singspiel will be available both in Italian and German. Which is definitely a part of the Josephinian cultural reforms - the idea being that you want the people to understand what's going on on stage. (And the tacit assumption not everyone in the audience speaks enough Italian for this.) As long as the intended audience for an opera is strictly the nobility, you''d expect them - in Vienna at least, where half of them are Italian, or partly so - to be fluent.