#pertharite

[unulf0]

while looking for corneille's works in the national library of france's online collections, i found this entry in a dictionary of operas...

haven't been able to find anything of it elsewhere, so far ( unless there's a site that's like corago but for french libretti and that nobody has told me about- which, given some of the things i see on this site, i have a nagging suspicion there is ). will be continuing my search.

[unulf0]

oohoohoo. ghost time.

[unulf0]

finally reading through pertharite ( with help from my french dictionary! )

sassy french unulfo ( unulphe ) has me feeling a certain way, and not because he's french. a good amount of that abrasiveness was carried over into the original salvi libretto that all subsequent versions draw from, and so it didn't come to me as much of a surprise. yet somehow, i find myself particularly stricken by how handel and haym's unulfo seems ( for lack of a better word ) lobotomised in comparison with corneille's.