Jul 5, 2025
@lives-in-a-harpsichord apparently Filippo Mineccia participated in a project with the arias of Tamerlano and Bajazet from different composers.
Update: here is the full video I think.
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@lives-in-a-harpsichord apparently Filippo Mineccia participated in a project with the arias of Tamerlano and Bajazet from different composers.
Update: here is the full video I think.
Turning five hundred years worth of opera into various food industry aus, one opera at a time
Today: Tamerlano
Tomorrow? Chi sa
Vintage Connolly content on the Internet Archive
A collection of BBC Radio broadcasts has recently been uploaded to the Internet Archive. I’m not sure exactly how legit these uploads are—IA has a very liberal policy for accepting content—so I think it’s possible the Beeb will file a takedown notice at some point. But in the meantime, they’re freely available for us to listen to and download.
Of interest to Connollyphiles are two operas in which she appeared, both from 2010: Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda at Opera North (in which she sings the title role) and Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos at the Welsh National Opera (in which she sings the role of Der Komponist).
Bonus Connollyana on IA: a radio drama adaptation of Jack London’s The Sea Wolf, for which Sarah Connolly sang atmospheric vocalises very early in her career, before she had even gotten her foot on the ladder as an operatic soloist. I wrote a little bit about this program on my blog when it was re-aired on BBC Radio 4 Extra in late 2017.
There’s more to explore for opera hounds: I recommend the search term ”Opera on 3″. For those of us with a baroque-trouser-rep bent, a good find is Handel’s Tamerlano from the Royal Opera in 2010, with Christianne Stotijn in the title role and Sara Mingardo as Andronico.
Shahrisabz - Uzbekistan
Voi lo chiamate speranza, questo fuoco tra i fuochi! Esso è soltanto agonia del desiderio.
Tamerlano Edgar Allan Poe
@lives-in-a-harpsichord I am listening to Gasparini's Bajazet (1719 libretto). Tamerlano is giving Andronico panic attacks by attributing every event to him.
"My dear Andronico! It was you who made me fall in love with Asteria."
"Me?!"
"You are the real one Andronico! Now you even got her to reciprocate my feelings!"
"Me?!?!?!"
Needless to say I am enjoying their dynamics.
Tamerlano singing "Cruda sorte, avverso fato - sono infido, sono ingrato" is so delusional and/or dissembling. Blaming fate for what, his garbage behaviour that he actively persists in?
Heartless traitor, devoid of love, of faith, you'd deny me love?
...You deny me love?
No, you will not triumph! I shall be, as you are, a wicked tyrant!
I now nurture for you in my heart only hatred, fury and poison, rewards for your betrayal.
... opera is so neat. I love it when it's time for a rage aria. Favourite time