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Betti was soon orphaned when her mother's demands of Santini increased beyond his own capacity, resulting in him strangling her to death. Betti would soon grow up to be an opera singer herself, stationed as an understudy for an avant-garde of Macbeth. Seeing her in that positioned while stalking her throughout her life, Santini was aroused ...
- Puccini: Tosca (Stabbing) Baron Scarpia is writing the safe-conduct at his desk, when Tosca catches a glimpse of the knife on the dining table and realises that there may be another way out for her.
- Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites (Guillotine) Few composers kill off more characters in one scene that Francis Poulenc does at the end of his Dialogues des Carmélites, yet few death scenes are quite as poignant.
- Mozart: Don Giovanni (Dragged down to hell) The sextet at the end of Mozart’s opera agrees: Don Giovanni got what he deserved. After seducing and breaking the hearts of – according to Leporello – thousands of women and killing Donna Anna’s father, the Commendatore, he’s dragged down to hell by a statue of his victim.
- Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Poisoned mushrooms) I love a mushroom stroganoff as much as the next person, but even my stomach turns queasy when thinking about the fate of Boris in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
With a bloody dagger in his hand, he encounters Lady Macbeth and tells her of Duncan’s death. She urges him to smear the sleeping guards with blood so they will be accused of the murder. He refuses, and she takes the dagger and fulfills the task herself.
Jan 13, 2021 · Opera singers must act, and this includes dying. Dying often is the apotheosis of the last aria. Singers sink, lifeless, and the curtain falls. None of this acting approaches reality.
To replace Callas as Lady Macbeth, Bing hired the young Austrian soprano Leonie Rysanek (pictured above), known primarily for her portrayals of Wagner and Strauss heroines but with the requisite vocal range and dramatic talent to succeed in the role.
Nov 10, 2023 · Marina Abramović: I was thinking about dying and how [in Maria Callas’s repertoire] women die mostly for love. And how in that way, they are killed by men.
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When a young opera singer takes over the leading role in an avant-garde presentation of Verdi's Macbeth, she triggers the madness of a crazed fan who repeatedly forces the diva to watch the brutal murders of her friends.
