Can anyone be tempted to opera for #JukeboxFridayNight #bookishbeats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do4Ei7Cio2g

Heart breakingly beautiful music in Verdi's La traviata, from Alexandre Dumas' fantastic work La dame aux camélias, a posthumous tribute to a woman they both knew. Great emotional sensitivity and intelligence, looking into the nuanced whys of the life of a Paris courtesan and the double standards she contends with.

English translation (Camille) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1608

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La traviata – Addio, del passato (Ermonela Jaho, The Royal Opera)

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@ReturnOfSchnuckster The lack of fine tuning with hashtags is my frustration; like the way #opera is used for both sung theatre and a web browser, or a single account can spam a hashtag(s).
I'd use them more but what I write isn't of sufficient interest to merit much engagement so there's little point other than #ReadingOpera makes it easy for me to find certain posts of my own.
Anyway, they are a powerful and not fully realised tool.

David Belasco's The Girl of the Golden West did not disappoint 💖 It's the source text for Puccini's La Fanciulla del West, which is very true to the novel/play.

Easy to read from @gutenberg_org too

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58800
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The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco

Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

Project Gutenberg

Review of "The Girl of the Golden West" (5 stars): heart of gold

https://ramblingreaders.org/user/emmaaum/review/63934

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@gutenberg_org So glad to see you here. I've been trying to point people on Mastodon and Bookwyrm towards your fantastic resources. I'm mostly using it to slowly read the novels behind #operas, which would be a complicated adventure in print but is very simple through #projectgutenberg 💖 💖

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PS Some aren't tagged for the opera shelf. How can I recommend some for tagging there?

Belasco's more detailed explanation of how Ramirez becomes a not-quite accidental bandit is probably as far fetched as Puccini's abbreviation but is a good deal more satisfying. Of course the novelisation of the play doesn't have music.

#AmReading #ReadingOpera #Opera #LaFanciullaDelWest

the end of this
do read
the short story by John Luther Long which David #Belasco adapted as a play which #Puccini wrote his #opera from

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Madame_Butterfly

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#LetTheSopranoLive

Madame Butterfly - Wikisource, the free online library

#AmReading the novel of Manon Lescaut, mostly because Dumas' heroine who became Verdi's Violetta owned a copy and I wanted to understand the references to Dumas' #LaDameAuxCamillas better; but also in hopes I might learn to appreciate Massanet and Puccini's Manon operas.
Instead, wherein Massanet's upsets me because the young man seems noble and good and his life is ruined by this love, I'm now fed up with his self-involvement. This was not the plan.
#opera #ReadingOpera

Cannot recommend this highly enough. Alexandre Dumas' La dame aux camélias.
Great emotional sensitivity and intelligence, looking into the nuanced whys of the life of a Paris courtesan and the double standards she contends with.
Opera lovers will recognise much of it.
Free to download or read here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1608

#bookstodon #ebooks #opera
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Camille (La Dame aux Camilias) by Alexandre Dumas

Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

Project Gutenberg

am approaching the point where Dumas' lovers will part and it's like there's all the deep sadness of Verdi's #opera but it's taking so much longer to get through and there's no lovely music and there won't be applause and happy after.
there's also the uncertainty of how this will happen. unlike the very familiar passages of opera.
not sure i like this.

#AmReading #ReadingOpera #LaDameAuxCamillas #Dumas
#LaTraviata #Verdi
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