... L'Olimpiade: Act II/V, aria "Siam navi all'onde algenti" performed by Aris ChristofellisasAminta.
"Siam navi all' onde algenti lasciate in abbandono impetuosi venti i nostri affetti sono, ogni diletto è scoglio, tutta la vita un mar.
Ben qual nocchiero in noi veglia ragion ma poi pur dall' ondoso orgoglio si lascia trasportar."
Recorded in Paris, February 1990.
Vivaldi wrote the Olimpiade in 1734 for the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice. The libretto for Olimpiade, one of the most famous librettos of the eighteenth century, was written by Pietro Metastasio in 1733. It has been set to music in the same year by Antonio Caldara, then by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi in 1735 and by Leonardo Leo in 1737, as well as by Vivaldi himself.
The Olimpiade was the first of Vivaldi's operas to be exhumed and reproposed to the international public in the twentieth century. Alfredo Casella was responsible for its modern-day revival in 1939, as part of the Siena Musical Week. ____
Since April the 1st - and following the call of Mouvement magazine, the 104*is "occupied"... becauseanother 104 is possible ! However, the Art centre houses since April 8th and until this week end some of the events of the 12th multimediaNemo Festival. Nemo (Arcadi + 104 + LeCube) has expanded on the idea of a new cinema based on computer graphics, music videos, animated graphic design, interactive installations and audiovisual performances.
*This new center for the Arts was opened two years ago by Bertrand Delanoë, the Paris' Mayor. See the story of the buildinghere. ___
My fief as a barrio Latino, this week end from 3pm until 2am.
At each stage of theSalsa Caravan, a whole Paris' district becomes a Latin village invested by thousand salseros, bachateros, zoukeros and other Latin dance enthusiasts from all sources. This time they are investing the Oberkampf area with world salsa, bachata, zouk, lambazouk, kizomba and reggaeton in a dozen bars of the Oberkampf and Saint-Maur streets, in Paris XI...
- Le Mecano : Bachata Salsa [6pm-2am] 99, rue Oberkampf - La Locandiera : Salsa Mix with DJ L'Duro & DJ Manito 145, rue Oberkampf - L'Antirouille : KIzomba Lambazouk et Salsa 5, rue Moret - Le Styx :Salsa Latino Mix 126, rue Oberkampf - Le Quartier Général : Salsa mix with DJ Jacky 103, rue Oberkampf - Le Youm'bi : Dominican Republic, Latino Hot 112, rue Saint-Maur - Le Carbet : Caribbean, Zouk and Kizomba 115, rue Saint-Maur - other bars to confirm...
Several introductory dance courses will be offered to the public. You just buy a 2-3€ wrist-pass that allows everyone access to all tracks and dance classes - Check out the program★★★ Last summer on the heights of Belleville...
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The Salsa Caravan plans to perform in the main Paris districts. ____ [Petit lexique de la musique cubaine]
Today, on the front page of Le Figaro... "Pâques: 4.000 chrétiens à la Défense" This year, as in 2007, the Sunday following the first full moon after the beginning of spring falls on the same day in the Gregorian calendar (the Protestant and Catholic) and Julian (the Orthodox). Archbishop of Paris, Mgr André Vingt-Trois, made no reference to the scandals currently rocking the Church. According to comments reported by the official Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, Archbishop Vingt-Trois denounced at the Mass of Holy Thursday, "an offensive aimed at destabilizing the Pope and the Church through him." [AFP - 04/04/2010]
- my Feline and verysubjective translation: "Pâques: 4.000 malvoyants & malentendants à la Défense... de l'Indéfendable*."
- from Feline to English translation: "Easter: 4,000 visually & hearing Impaired in [at La] Défense... of the indefensible*." All the latest and breaking Vatican City news _________
Nonetheless, Happy Easter 2010 to you all ! _________
No, no fish on Le Mur Oberkampf, today... but a fisheater's work, by your favourite netc@t ! # 0068 - G@ttoGiallo - April 1st/2010 So what ? You haven't seen it ? That'sbecause you didn't take your apéro on the Place Verte on April the 1st ! ________
The next day, April the 2nd, Titi crossed the forbidden passage... # 68 - TITIfrom Paris - "Franchissement Interdit" - April 2, 2010.
Isabelle Pinpaille, homeless, 15 years in the street, gone on Jan. 31/2010. Her friend misses her as well as the others guys of her group...
Winter has been very cold this year and alcohol - let alone the addiction, seems to be the cheapest way to warm up. Her hearth was so tired, it simply stopped.
The group Public Commando made a beau geste, on March 25 : Early in the morning, they drew Isabelle's name in giant chalk-white letters on Belleville boulevard's central sidewalk, between the two subway stations of Ménilmontant and Couronne, 'as an ephemeral trace of the woman' in the neighborhood.
[Click on map to see Isa on Panoramio/GoogleEarth]. Chalk-white letters, for Isabelle, as white as her last winter's snow. ____
EARTH HOUR IN PARIS 2010 5 656 245 supporters at 10:45 am [Paris time].
More than 4000 cities, towns and municipalities have now confirmed their participation this year, across 125 countriesand territories.
• Earth Hour has kicked off in spectacular fashion with the Chatham Islands, located 800 kilometres of the coast of New Zealand, becoming the first of 125 countries and regions to switch off their lights for Earth Hour (20:30 local time, 6:45GMT, +13:45 UTC). • This year 125 countries and regions across all seven continents will take part in Earth Hour. • More than 4000 cities, towns and municipalities will unite around the world to switch off and show their commitment for action on climate change. • 1387 icons and landmarks will switch off for Earth Hour. • Earth Hour has reached more than 6 million online social network friends. • Thousands of Earth Hour videos are being viewed around the world with the official Earth Hour 2010 video currently being viewed approximately every 4 seconds at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FclcMfzjwug • Earth Hour is one of the top 10 trending topics on Twitter worldwide. • The term ‘Earth Hour’ has appeared online more than 30 million times in the past 24 hours.
You too, switch off the light, breathe with the earth.
[earthhourarchive] In Paris, the Eiffel Tower switches off its lights for the Earth Hour. [Count down with French Minister of State Jean-Yves Borloo, Environment Minister Chantal Jouanno, WWF International Director General James Leape and WWF France CEO Serge Orru]. ____
"BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH, Sarko" ! G@ttus : Sarkus! Sarkus : Ha! Who calls? Casca : Everyone, quiet. Peace! Sarkus : Who’s calling for me? I hear a voice that is more shrill than all the music yelling, "Sarkus"! Speak, I’m listening. G@ttus : Beware the Ides of March! Sarkus : Who is that man? Brutus : A c@t who can tell the future is telling you to beware March 21. Sarkus : Bring him here; let me see his face. Cassius : Felis, come here; look at Sarkus. Sarkus : What do you say to me now? Speak again.. G@ttus : Beware the Ides of March. Sarkus : He is a c@t; let's get away from him. Let's go. [Exeunt]
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... until April the 1st - aka Fools' Day. Are we going to see a French-style-big-fish in two weeks, with Parisian Titi ? # 67 - REKO Rennie - March 14th/2010 Reko's video of his hopping tour in Europe in 2009, when he won an Australian Council of the Arts residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris. ___
After a phone call with a friend recalling some conversations with old people on a topic that has always been a taboo, I just googled two keywords : Accabadora and mazzoccu.
- The"feminaaccabadora" or "agabbadora" (Span. v. acabar) is the woman who completes the task - meaning she "helps" to pass away or, in short, a "terminator". This character used to be an old woman dressed in black, veiled face - often the midwife of the village, who was called to end the agony of the dying when it lasted too long, causing unnecessary suffering. Her task accomplished, she moved away. Her performance wasnot paid with money, but rewarded with flour, salt, lard or other common items. It was an ancestral form of euthanasia, practiced in cases of extreme necessity.
- The "mazzoccu" or "mazzolu" is a piece of wild olive wood, T-shaped like a hammer(more info here to translate). Like all items related to the most secret rites and traditions, this tool was kept carefully hidden, when people didn't get rid of.However, one of them is still visible at the Gallurasethnographic museum, in Luras. A single sharp blow of this instrument on the temporal bone was supposed to end the agony, thoughsometimes choking with a hand or a pillow was enough to stop a weak breath of life.The accabadora's performance was so fast it appeared to be painless...
The latest reported activities of the Accabadora would have occurred in Luras (1929) and in Orgosolo (1952), although someone believes that the last casewould be as more recent as in 2003.
The Luras case is certainly emblematic : when a 70 years old man passed away - with some help from such a black angel, the local police and prosecutor were unanimous in reporting the act to a humanitarian context, so the woman wasn't convicted and the case was filed.
AlbertoLa Marmora and William HenrySmith were the first to report this primitive practice of euthanasia in Sardinia in their travel journals, in the early 19th century. ___ *[the sentence "su ohi de s'accabadora" means "the last lament of the dying"].
