Opera lyrics - more

[chickenfeet]

So far eight out of ten have been identified (see below). That leaves:

5. The wind is from the west, a lazy sea, the sky overcast, a stagnant smell from the lagoon

10. If the water is deep we will swim. If it is too fast we will build boats

Both are works from the 1970s and both libretti are in English. One has been recorded and one, as far as I know, hasn't.

1. Coronation of Poppea - Monteverdi - glitterboy1
2. Salome - Strauss - glitterboy1
3. Abduction from the Seraglio - Mozart - shezan
4. Julius Caesar in Egypt - Handel - glitterboy1
6. Twilight of the Gods - Wagner - damiel
7. Bluebeard's Castle - Bartok - damiel
8. King Arthur - Purcell - kalypso_v
9. Orfeo - Monteverdi - shezan

Comments

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Damn. My gut kept telling me Poppaea. One day, I will remember that my gut is considerably better informed than I am.

Given that the only opera I'd thought of that might feature a lagoon was Pearl Fishers, I'm a bit lost. Oh. Hang on. There's a lagoon in Venice...

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

There's a lagoon in Venice...

a stagnant one even

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Given that I cheated to the extent of looking up which operas he wrote in the 1970s, I'll leave it to someone else to claim the points.