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Artaserse – Act III

29 Saturday Aug 2015

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Artaserse, Baroque opera, Graphic novel, Persian history, Pietro Metastasio, The Idle Woman, What If...

Artaserse4Remember The Idle Woman’s wonderful graphic novel? Because, really how often do you find a Baroque opera turned into a comic? And Persian history? And a delightful, ever so slightly tongue-in-cheek approach? Continue reading →

A Baroque graphic novel

04 Tuesday Aug 2015

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Artaserse, Baroque opera, Graphic novel, Leonardo Vinci, Pietro Metastasio, The Idle Woman

Artaserse3Do you ever wish you could give some stories (whether yours or otherwise) another life? Translate them to a different medium, make them visual, retell them the way you imagine them?

I do – all the time. Which is one of the reasons why I fell in love with The Idle Woman’s Artaserse graphic novel. I think I told you elsewhere about this wonderful blog about history, historical fiction, music, theatre and Baroque opera – but now Leander had done something even more wonderful. She has taken an opera – Leonardo Vinci and Pietro Metastasio’s Artaserse, and turned it into a graphic novel. She did it for fun and then shared the delightful result on her blog, in the hope that she might entice someone to try out the opera…* Continue reading →

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