La Diva

Portrait d’une natural woman édition revue et augmentée.
Biographie de la chanteuse Aretha Franklin, disparue en août 2018. L'auteur s'appuie sur des éléments de sa vie personnelle et professionnelle pour tenter de dresser son portrait, relater sa carrière et éclairer son oeuvre. …

A hit in its first run in 1726, in London and elsewhere, Alessandro has had less success in our day. It is a demanding and lengthy work. The story moves quickly and is fairly silly, and meant to be. This Alexander conquers Ossidraca during the overture, but manages to bungle his subsequent amatory assaults, which constitute the rest of the opera. All manages to end well for him in the nick of time, however, as a good lieto fine requires. The performance takes just over three hours, though Bernd Feuchtner, the author of the notes, claims that London audiences in 1726 were in the theater for five.