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Turandot – A Story of Redemption
One of my favourite operas – if not my actual favourite – is Turandot. Inspired by the Persian fairy tale Turan-Dokht, it was Giacomo Puccini’s swansong, left unfinished at his death and completed by Franco Alfano. There is something profoundly different about … Continue reading
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Tagged katherine gregor, love, music, opera, puccini, scribe doll, turandot, writing
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Odds & Ends: Tristan and Iseut
It was a book with a dark blue cover, with a ghostly picture of a Mediaeval ship, in a paler blue and grey, on the front. My mother had brought it for me from the local library, in Nice, as … Continue reading
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Tagged academie francaise, celtic legends, french literature, iseut, isolde, joseph bedier, katherine gregor, love, mediaeval french, scribe doll, tristan
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