Toward the end of the show when Porgy finds out that Bess is gone and is determined to go after her he says rather loudly (at least in the version they did in Bloomington) "Bring my goat!" And in the Bloomignton production for which I was on the stage crew there was a real goat. Dinorah is a new one on me. Then again, most of the Meyerbeer I know is in excerpts.
Aaron J. Rabushka [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.waymark.net/arabushk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark D Lew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Finale-List 3" <finale@shsu.edu> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 9:09 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] OT: goats in opera (was Can you spot the fake?) > > On May 10, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Aaron Rabushka wrote: > > > "Porgy and Bess," by some chance? > > Porgy rides around in a goat-cart, but nothing in the libretto > suggests an actual goat pulling it. Porgy propels himself with his > strong arms. > > Meyerbeer's _Dinorah_, on the other hand, does feature a goat that is > central to the story and appears prominently on stage ... but that > opera, in spite of the one famous coloratura aria, is hardly produced > anymore. > > mdl > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
