8 juin 2021
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Jane Tylus, « 10. ‘Non basta il suono, e la voce’ », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.11zjbf
Claudio Monteverdi famously ends his Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda with the last words of the dying Clorinda: ‘S’apre il cielo, vado in pace’ [The heavens open, I go in peace]. Slain by the Crusader who has loved her since he first saw her at a fountain, Clorinda has just been baptized with water from another fountain. Tancredi recites the sacred words of the baptismal rite, and she turns her eyes to heaven to sing the final line. As musicologists have long pointed out, however, thi...