#pertharite

haven't been able to find anything of it elsewhere, so far ( unless there's a site that's like corago but for french libretti and that nobody has told me about- which, given some of the things i see on this site, i have a nagging suspicion there is ). will be continuing my search.

oohoohoo. ghost time.

sassy french unulfo ( unulphe ) has me feeling a certain way, and not because he's french. a good amount of that abrasiveness was carried over into the original salvi libretto that all subsequent versions draw from, and so it didn't come to me as much of a surprise. yet somehow, i find myself particularly stricken by how handel and haym's unulfo seems ( for lack of a better word ) lobotomised in comparison with corneille's.