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A barber of Seville, an irresistible Carmen, a Celtic druid priestess: stories every bit as compelling.",{"type":9,"value":10,"toc":11},"minimark",[],{"title":12,"searchDepth":13,"depth":13,"links":14},"",2,[],"md",{},true,[19,22,25],{"title":20,"slug":21},"The Barber of Seville","il-barbiere-di-siviglia",{"title":23,"slug":24},"Carmen","carmen",{"title":26,"slug":27},"Norma","norma",7,"/en/altri",{"title":5,"description":12},"altri","en/altri/index","The Great Among the Great","GjYkXM6GWYA3T6oiYqRDjJKCWsoIdt0z-T3k5yYCWEg",[36,77,117],{"id":37,"title":23,"anno":38,"aria":39,"atti":42,"bio":6,"body":49,"compositore":53,"description":12,"extension":15,"finale":54,"meta":55,"navigation":17,"opere":6,"order":6,"path":56,"personaggi":57,"seo":73,"slug":6,"stem":74,"tagline":75,"years":6,"__hash__":76},"en/en/altri/carmen.md","Paris, 1875",{"nome":40,"descrizione":41},"L'amour est un oiseau rebelle — The Habanera","Carmen describes love as a wild bird that cannot be caught. 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Outside the bullring, José begs her one last time. Carmen throws to the ground the ring he had given her. He stabs her.",{"type":9,"value":50,"toc":51},[],{"title":12,"searchDepth":13,"depth":13,"links":52},[],"Bizet","Carmen is no victim: she chooses freedom until the very last second, knowing what it might cost her. Don José is no murderer in the ordinary sense: he is a man who has lost everything — and does not know how to live without her. Bizet takes no one's side. And he is right.",{},"/en/altri/carmen",[58,61,65,69],{"nome":23,"voce":59,"descrizione":60},"Mezzo-soprano","Gypsy cigarette-maker, free and wild. She loves whom she wants, when she wants. She would rather die than surrender her freedom.",{"nome":62,"voce":63,"descrizione":64},"Don José","Tenor","An honest soldier, engaged to a good country girl. Carmen destroys him: he gives up everything for her, becomes a brigand. When she abandons him, he kills her.",{"nome":66,"voce":67,"descrizione":68},"Escamillo","Baritone — the toreador","Famous bullfighter, self-assured. Carmen's new love. He sings the Toreador Song with the same ease with which he lives.",{"nome":70,"voce":71,"descrizione":72},"Micaëla","Soprano","Don José's good fiancée. The woman he should have married. She represents everything he betrays.",{"title":23,"description":12},"en/altri/carmen","The freest woman in opera — and the man who kills her because he cannot possess her","q0H4za7RS-9Avb4aE0CaXw8G0amRwXd12bfUkgxGytE",{"id":78,"title":20,"anno":79,"aria":80,"atti":83,"bio":6,"body":90,"compositore":94,"description":12,"extension":15,"finale":95,"meta":96,"navigation":17,"opere":6,"order":6,"path":97,"personaggi":98,"seo":113,"slug":6,"stem":114,"tagline":115,"years":6,"__hash__":116},"en/en/altri/il-barbiere-di-siviglia.md","Rome, 1816",{"nome":81,"descrizione":82},"Largo al factotum","Figaro introduces himself to the city of Seville: he does everything, knows everyone, everyone wants him. An aria so fast and virtuosistic that it still leaves baritones breathless today.",[84,87],{"titolo":85,"testo":86},"Act I — Serenades and Subterfuge","The Count is in love with Rosina, who lives under lock and key in the house of her old guardian Don Bartolo. He meets Figaro, who proposes a plan: as barber, he comes and goes from that house every day — he can help. First attempt: the Count disguises himself as a drunk soldier billeted on Bartolo's house. Total chaos ensues.",{"titolo":88,"testo":89},"Act II — The Music Teacher and the Escape","Second disguise: the Count presents himself as a substitute for Rosina's music teacher. He manages to speak with her, to declare himself. Bartolo suspects everyone. In the finale, the Count and Rosina elope by night with Figaro's help. When Bartolo arrives with the notary to marry her, he discovers the two are already married — with that same notary, half an hour earlier.",{"type":9,"value":91,"toc":92},[],{"title":12,"searchDepth":13,"depth":13,"links":93},[],"Rossini","Everyone is happy — except Bartolo, who consoled himself quickly enough. Rossini was like that: pure comedy, without shadows. 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He suspects everything and everyone — and gets outsmarted anyway.",{"title":20,"description":12},"en/altri/il-barbiere-di-siviglia","The most riotous comedy in opera — with a factotum barber and disguises at every turn","zGdeKBTu71J6queYfgtTwHo32Ighmxi51nxIUjwfGr4",{"id":118,"title":26,"anno":119,"aria":120,"atti":123,"bio":6,"body":130,"compositore":134,"description":12,"extension":15,"finale":135,"meta":136,"navigation":17,"opere":6,"order":6,"path":137,"personaggi":138,"seo":148,"slug":6,"stem":149,"tagline":150,"years":6,"__hash__":151},"en/en/altri/norma.md","Milan, 1831",{"nome":121,"descrizione":122},"Casta diva","Norma prays to the moon. It is considered the greatest aria in bel canto — and perhaps one of the most beautiful melodies ever written in the history of Western music.",[124,127],{"titolo":125,"testo":126},"Act I — The Secret Revealed","The Gaulish druids hate the Romans and want war. Norma restrains them — secretly because she loves Pollione. Adalgisa confesses to her that she loves a Roman. Norma understands her, almost forgives her — until she discovers that the Roman is Pollione, the father of her own children. The duet between the two women is one of the most beautiful moments in all bel canto history.",{"titolo":128,"testo":129},"Act II — The Final Choice","Norma considers killing her children — she cannot do it. She considers entrusting them to Adalgisa. Then Pollione is captured. Norma could save him if Adalgisa gives him up. Adalgisa refuses. Norma is transformed: she reveals to the druids that among them is a priestess who has violated her vows. 'Who is it?' 'It is I.' She surrenders herself to the pyre. Pollione, struck by her greatness, asks to die with her. They climb onto the pyre together.",{"type":9,"value":131,"toc":132},[],{"title":12,"searchDepth":13,"depth":13,"links":133},[],"Bellini","Norma chooses sacrifice not out of despair but out of dignity: she will not betray herself, and will not let her children grow up with a dishonoured mother. She mounts the pyre with her head held high. It is the noblest death in opera.",{},"/en/altri/norma",[139,142,145],{"nome":26,"voce":140,"descrizione":141},"Soprano — the protagonist","High druidic priestess in Roman Gaul. She has betrayed her religious vows and her people to love a Roman. She has two secret children with him.",{"nome":143,"voce":63,"descrizione":144},"Pollione","Roman proconsul, Norma's former lover. He has abandoned her for Adalgisa. He is not particularly sympathetic.",{"nome":146,"voce":59,"descrizione":147},"Adalgisa","A young priestess, Norma's friend. She has fallen in love with Pollione without knowing of his bond with Norma. 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