Re: Glorantha the Opera

From: Andrew Larsen <aelarsen_at_facstaff.wisc.edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 22:31:53 -0500


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> From: donald_at_grove.demon.co.uk (Donald R. Oddy)
> Subject: Glorantha the Opera
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> In message <200009131845.LAA13241_at_chaosium.com>
> owner-glorantha-digest_at_chaosium.com (The Glorantha Digest) writes:
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>> From: Andrew  Larsen <aelarsen_at_facstaff.wisc.edu>
>> 
>>> What other forms do you suggest? poetry? plays? films? novels? opera???
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>> Definitely Opera.  Glorantha has all the elements of a tragic opera.

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> Alternatively there is comic opera -
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> I am the very model of a modern Lunar general...

    In this version, I suppose the tenor has a Eurmali servant who saves him by goosing the Moon Priestess at a crucial moment. The Red Emperor is definitely a counter-tenor or falsetto.

Andrew E. Larsen


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