The Golden Age of Opera
A night at the opera 🎭🎭🎭
There is a real sense of ecstasy in this short video clip with Pina Menichelli - a highly caffeinated Diva of the early Italian cinema ("Tigre Reale", 1916). European society of the Belle Époque was a society founded on a continuous melodrama: The Golden Age of Opera... "Silent and Forgotten"?
Trance-like: The final ecstatic passages of "Isoldens Liebestod" with Giuseppina Cobelli amidst the engulfing orchestral tides of La Scala propelled by Victor De Sabata on 11 Dec 1930 in a live performance:
Soll ich schlürfen,
untertauchen?
Süß in Düften
mich verhauchen?
In dem wogenden Schwall,
in dem tönenden Schall,
in des Welt-Atems wehendem All ---
ertrinken,
versinken ---
unbewußt ---
höchste Lust
Best Kiss Award goes to
Pina Menichelli...
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