Jen,
I didn't delete this! Take a Rucker Index of the Met production of Hansel and Gretel (assuming it has trees in the set design). And get some CBH and DBH measurements of some of the singers to compare the "old growth" and "new growth". Yours, (whether you like it or not), Jenny -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, Nov 15, 2009 2:15 pm Subject: [ENTS] Forests/Trees in opera (don't delete! not that bad!) Yup, just what you all were waiting for... This is part of an email I sent to Kouta along with a picture: Kouta, Here's the only production pic I could find that is slightly woods related. In Handel's Partenope, Rosmira is enraged by boyfriend's infidelity and goes to the woods and kills that deer! Having that beast in the aria was a mixed blessing; everyone loved it and it looked cool, but I had to jump on it and climb up which made singing really hard...This was a great production from New York City Opera/Glimmerglass Opera. Handel wrote some good tree and woods tunes. Ombra mai fu (Persian King Xerxes sings love song to tree - I wonder what kind?),http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9Jh7DF1nxY and Care Selve come to mind. Hey, Hansel und Gretel must be the ultimate Forest opera, though, right! The sound isn't good but this is so cute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m7bGzxLzuo (fyi, other fascinated and rapt ENTS: the characters are both played by women. I would be Hansel - the lower voice) Jeanne d'Arc in Tchaikivsky's Maid of Orleans sings a tremendous aria "Adieu Foret" (link to Jessye Norman performance; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5hSc78uZyw) And Sondheim's Into the Woods, while not operatic, deserves mention This is fun! Any other tree/forest musical references come to mind? Jenny -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
