So etwas geht selten gut aus
… as the saying goes. A German opera singer is accused of murdering her husband Hermann, then hiring a body double to sign over to her his properties, stocks, bonds, cash and life insurance policy. [The Telegraph]
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… which I assume is just as dreary as pretty much everything else Hindemith composed.
Die frau ohne Köpfchen
I would not make this a Verdi opera or Mozart or Wagner. Puccini maybe, something like ‘Il Tabarro’ with many Luigis for hire. Shostakovich yes, or Janacek. In Hollywood, would Sandra do? Meryl, of course, can do anything. Joan Crawford would be perfect. There are still many loose ends. Did she really kill him? When and how? Where did she hide or dump the corpse? What method did she use? There is a possibility he is not dead, but somewhere lost with amnesia, now that is many movies. Hm, an opera with an amnesia theme, I can’t think of one, that would be fascinating in the treatment of the different musical themes.
“55? I”LL SUE!”
Mignon.
Mignon ! But of course, Mignon Dunn as Elvira in the Baby Jane opera. She’d deserve having another scene composed just for her ! ! ! ! I’ll set right to work as soon as I sharpen my quills.
Oh no, shocked German, I’m shocked! How could I forget to check BILD… and now a bunch of tabloids and feeds have picked it up too. I’d never thought Google News Search would be so sophisticated as to leave them out.
“Waltraud G.eht über Leichen”?
Eureka !
LA SONNAMBULA !
The husband is that creepy guy who sleeps anywhere he wants. All the angry townspeople . . . it all fits.
Quick. Call Mary Zimmerman !
Where’s a Tarnhelm when you need one?
Gott in Himmel… sopranos on trial…das ist ein slippery slope! How many consecutive life terms would be handed down to Gwyneth Jones for her career-long spree murdering the score of Turandot??
(I kid the Dame – I worked w/ her on a great FROSCH and totally got why she was a huge star, but also did her FANCIULLA which was consistantly wrong…)
The Hill case would make a great dark comedy a la Freres Coen. Does Frances McDormand have a decent B?