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Johann Peter Kellner (1705-1772) - Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe: III. Die Nacht, die segensvolle Nacht ·

Cantata legendada em português: vídeo1 ou vídeo2; legenda. Para download do vídeo, sugiro usar o software JDownloader2.

Venus and Adonis (HWV 85), de Handel, composta em Londres 1711, trata-se de uma cantata secular baseada no célebre mito clássico de Vênus e Adônis, tema amplamente explorado na tradição artística europeia.

A obra foi concebida para voz solista com acompanhamento instrumental. Nela, Handel demonstra grande sensibilidade dramática e refinamento melódico, alternando recitativos expressivos com árias elaboradas. Mesmo sendo uma obra de pequena escala, já se percebem elementos que mais tarde se tornariam característicos de seu estilo operístico, como a intensa caracterização emocional, o contraste entre afetos e o uso expressivo da linha vocal.

O mito de Adônis, que morre tragicamente e renasce simbolicamente, oferece ao compositor a oportunidade de explorar contrastes entre dor e beleza, lamento e esperança.

Venus, Adonis and Cupid (Annibale Carracci, 1595): cena do primeiro encontro dos amantes. O sangue da flecha de Cupido ainda pode ser visto no peito de Vênus.

Venus and Adonis (Paolo Veronese, 1580): Retrata o caçador Adônis dormindo no colo de Vênus. À frente dela está seu filho Cupido, com um cão de caça. Cupido é retratado tentando saciar o desejo de caça do cão, pois Vênus havia previsto que Adônis morreria durante uma caçada. 

Venus and Adonis (Ticiano, 1554): Uma das representações mais famosas do mito. Mostra Vênus tentando impedir Adônis de sair para a caça - momento anterior à tragédia.

Venus and Adonis (Thomas Phillips, 1808): Mostra Vênus tentando persuadir Adônis a não partir para a caça.

Personagens principais: - Vênus: Deusa do amor e da beleza; expressa dor profunda pela perda de seu amado. - Adônis: Jovem de extraordinária beleza, amado por Vênus; sua morte é o centro dramático da narrativa. - Cupido (Amor): Divindade do amor, frequentemente retratada como caprichosa; simboliza a dualidade entre prazer e sofrimento. - Prosérpina: Rainha do mundo subterrâneo; associada ao ciclo de morte e renascimento de Adônis. - Eco e as ninfas (náiades): Figuras secundárias que ampliam o lamento e a atmosfera poética da obra.

Sinopse: Narra o trágico destino de Adônis, amado da deusa Vênus. A obra se inicia com a descrição do profundo lamento de Vênus, que chora desesperadamente a morte de seu amado. A natureza ao seu redor — colinas, florestas e ninfas — participa desse luto, refletindo a dimensão universal de sua dor.

Vênus relembra a beleza e a importância de Adônis em sua vida, alternando entre desespero e súplica. Ela implora que ele retorne, expressando a intensidade de seu amor e sua incapacidade de aceitar a perda. Ao mesmo tempo, a figura de Cupido é evocada como símbolo das contradições do amor, capaz de gerar tanto alegria quanto sofrimento.

A narrativa então introduz o elemento mitológico da transformação: por intervenção divina, Adônis não desaparece completamente, mas renasce sob a forma de uma flor. Esse renascimento simboliza a continuidade da beleza e do amor, ainda que de maneira transitória. A alternância entre luz e sombra — associada a Vênus e Prosérpina — sugere o ciclo eterno de vida, morte e renovação.

Assim, a cantata encerra-se não apenas como um lamento, mas como uma meditação poética sobre a natureza do amor e sua ligação inseparável com a perda e a transformação.

I’m glad you liked that option! Several other readers have mentioned the same.

Do they think it was a simple malfunction? Coincidentally in all ships at the same time…

Do they suspect sabotage? Do they suspect it was an iredicci considering the rather unnatural behaviour of the elements?

Could they hear mc’s singing? Surely not considering the distance, right?

Or does the possibility not cross their minds? On that note, have there been other iredicci sabotaging the Regis’s plans at some point or would mc be like the first? (Not counting Tellus, I mean like elemental-based sabotage)

Most iredicci are brought to tinebaille for safety from what I remember. Mc is like the first and only iredicci fighter of the resistenza that can make use of their song and abilities + child of a duette. A unique kind of threat to the Regis.

Omg it would be so fun if at some point we find out the Regis has given out an order to capture mc just like he did for Aestus…

Excellent question! The singing could easily be heard by those in the hangar and the factory; the Ossequenti in particular would have recognized the song for what it was, and reported back to the regis. The destruction happening in the airships themselves was louder than MC’s singing. However, the sound does amplify when an Iredicci really strains, as MC did, so those on board may have heard it faintly.

Aestus used their song a few times in the year they were traveling, and some Iredicci (like Unda) fought back during The Proelium, so the regis does understand the power they’re capable of. But MC is the first Iredicci in years to weaponize their song, and to such a degree.

Hey Fir, glad to see you about. It wasn’t a shock to corrine and Vicente that we were irredecci, but was it a surprise that we weren’t deaf, mute, or that our connection hadn’t been severed? Did they think at least one of those things were true?

I keep thinking if Corrine sharing her past and even if we show her forgiveness and grace and mourn the position she was in, I wonder if she thinks about how we still didn’t tell her. I wonder if she took that to mean that we forgave her and felt sorry for her but that we didn’t trust her. All I can think is that she’d… agree, which really makes me want to wrap her up in like the biggest hug. I hope we get to tell her that we do trust her and we did want to tell her and that we were going to T-T

And don’t even get me started on Calliope, she was so open, from the very start. And I can just see her trying to write off her own feelings about it, like she’d think up all of the good reasons we had, and I can just see her trying to hold her own hurt to herself. And on top of the fact that her dad is alive? She’s got to be in the whackest head space right now. Happy and devastated and now one of her safe spaces, one of the people she believed she could trust, well maybe she misread that. Maybe we don’t trust her and how can she go to us now? God, please please please, I’m hoping she doesn’t get in her own head about it.

My girls! My girls! I need my girls to be okay!

(im so terrible for this, I do actually like the boys & Vicente but like, when my girls are in Big Sad™️? I’m over here like, Tellus is in his natural state: mourning, he just needs to hydrate, and someone give Vicente a water spritz because whatever you’re planning while everyone is distracted needs to be heard by at least one more person, and like Bayram will be fine after a hug, I’m busy. The girls! [please note: no Vicentes, Bayrams, or Telluses were harmed in my playthrough, this is a dramatized retelling to place emphasis and do a funny. I do not want to be hunted through the woods by the people playing their routes])

“Tellus just needs to hydrate” 🤣🤣🤣

mirabella and matteo are a great bundle of joy, and gabriele is totally cool. I think levi might be my favorite though. my first time through he was the only one i remembered specifically. maybe if have time i'll try to draw them all

I’m delighted to hear that! I wondered how many readers would try that scene. If you do draw them, I’d love to see it! ❤️

The Resistenza officers are my lovable band of misfits. You’ll get to know them more but not for a while, I’m afraid. They won’t be in the next couple of chapters. You’ll get to know Yıldız more in the next chapters, though! I do, however, have some shenanigans planned with them when the narrative finally gets to court. 😉

In that latest chapter with that final scene, with Corinne's reaction.......... did she have suspicious or figure out that the mc was Iredicci(I know she heard us speak, but I don't think we got further than that)? I saw her reaction to the mc speaking as one of kinda resignation or shame to have her suspicions confirmed.

Corinne definitely suspected, yes. There were a few moments where she clued in; you see it more in her route.