La Cieca is sure that many, if not all, of the cher public are literally salivating at the prospect of seeing an actual performance of Chabrier’s Le Roi Malgré Lui—as indeed it will be presented in its US stage premiere at Bard SummerScape beginning July 27. Well, lucky public is all I can say, because one of you has the chance to win two tickets to the opening night of the opera, complete with round trip transportation from Manhattan to Bard. It’s a competition and it follows the jump.
All you have to do, my dears, is to identify the following 20 quotations from French opera librettos (each containing the key word “malgré”) by title of the opera and the name of the character who sings the line.
Leave your answers in the comments section below, and the first entry offering what La Cieca judges are complete and correct answers will win its author the coveted tickets to Bard. La Cieca asks that only participants who are available and willing to go to Bard on the 27th enter the competetion. Should no completely correct entry be posted by midnight on Friday, July 20, La Cieca will choose a winner randomly from the contestants who have attempted to answer. La Cieca’s decisions as to accuracy and correctness of answers is final, as always.
And now, cher public, name those malgrés!
- Ce fils, malgré son âge est grand par son courage.
- De mes yeux, malgré moi, je sens couler des larmes.
- Depuis qu’il est parti, malgré moi, tout me lasse!
- Eh bien! oui, malgré moi peut-être je l’aimais.
- Eh bien! voilà que malgré moi j’y reviens encore!
- [Elle désigne Selva]: Il est venu l’arrêter, malgré ses larmes et ses prières.
- En ces lieux, malgré moi, m’ont ramené mes pas.
- II semble qu’une main de fer me mene en un autre chemin et malgré moi m’entraine devant elle.
- J’ai dans le coeur des raisons de t’aimer que malgré moi viennent me désarmer!
- Je jette malgré moi vers les biens de la terre un regard de douleur.
- Je viens à vous malgré ma haine.
- Mais ton effroi, ton trouble et ta pâleur mortelle trahissent, malgré toi, ta flamme criminelle!
- Malgré la nuit, malgré ton long silence, mon cœur joyeux avait lu dans ton cœur !
- Malgré le bruit des vents et la fureur des flots, entendez-vous les cris des matelots?
- Malgré l’effort même du démon moqueur, je t’ai retrouvée; je t’ai retrouvée!
- Malgré les cris, malgré les pleurs de tant de mères éperdues, des rivières de sang vont être répandues.
- Malgré nos vains efforts il calme la fureur de nos transports.
- Malgré toi, je saurai t’arracher au trépas!
- Mon coeur suit malgré moi de funestes attraits.
- Oui, tu viendras, cruelle, et malgré toi [bientôt] tu m’entendras.
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