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| - On Friday October 13th at the Benedum. The fat lady sang, jumped to her death and it was curtains for Cosca and the show. The show was truly over only when the fat lady sang which left all 4 of the main characters dead. What a brilliant show!
The ending wouldn't suggest that The first Act was more comedic than dramatic. At times, hilarious as the jealous Cosca became increasingly irate of the beautiful woman her lover Mario is painting (Mary Magdalene - see 1st pic posted) lol & Scarpio's jealously of Mario is at first funny. Funnier when he starts torturing and threatening to lap of heads (you can hear Mario's friend screaming out off stage through the torture chamber door..singing his torture in a classic beautiful Opera way. I thought this was extremely cool, brilliant (almost funny...because you don't expect to hear screaming in terror sung in key) and the actor is off stage right singing this scream. I loved that. Imagine a beautiful Opera voice cry Instead of "Arggghha ahhladffuki'mmmmbeinnnmurderrredd"
The set is in a church with the Mary Magdalene painting on an eisel and a church door to the cathedral audience. center of the stage. The second set is also in a church with a center door to the larger Cathedral chapel (you can hear a choir singing off stage and the acoustics are made to sound like it's coming from that door and/or the set design has that easy to believe. Check out the video I postEd. Loved that. very cool. who designed that? exceptional.
Cosca's character cycles through a broad spectrum of emotions from jealous, loyal, venegeful, and religious and moral at the end before she jumps to her deAth while singing " I will now be judged before God with you..you bastard Scorpio". Is this all about her and Scorpio ? Is she a sociopath too? what about the poor artist Mario who got caught up in all of this? Did he deserve to die? maybe, but shouldn't she be calling out for his love before vengeance witn Scarpio? Hmmm...a peak into her true character here. But Leah Crocetto's acting & beautiful singing have the audience believing her to be more of a jealous & funny character who is chasing an artist who feels trapped in the situation and is staying with her to survive. Sure there are different interpretations of Cosca and this one is a believable one. And Compassion grows for Cosca despite her flaws as the futility of the situation becomes evident. And her singing is so beautiful! Gives the audience no choice but to fall in love with her despite her character flaws. Is this an observation of life and the character flaw exceptions we make for athletes, beautiful actresses, and the extremely wealthy?
In the end, the fake execution for Mario was real. The Power mongering and heartless Scarpio has been murdered, killed by Cosca. And her lover is dead, victim of a "fake execution". Her choice to believe the sociopath she murdered (who's fault is that?) is a poor one. This Opera is going GOT on us...and Cosca, true to the words we all know "Elivs has left the building" or I mean it aint over until the fat lady sings" as she falls to her death..exit stage center down!
Bravo, fricking loved this Opera! 2 Thumbs way up!
Lastly, trying to research the origin of "It's not over to the fat lady sings...I found this and thought I hope that it is true. Great legend...and I'm having a change of heart about Al Capone. Opera can move an audience in mysterious ways..
Fwd...(from a bloke in Dublin) The way I heard it was that in the twenties Al Capone developed a taste for opera, mugging up assiduously on recordings, and one night went to a live performance of Tosca, accompanied by two bodyguards. These gents, who hadn't done the same homework as Al, got up to go at the end of the first aria, only for Al to drag them back into their seats, snarling ... you guessed it. "It's not over until the fast lady sings"
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