In a perfect world. Cookies and K-tel.
Mar. 24th, 2007 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
webcowgirlJ and I went to the Barbican tonight and saw William Christie's Les Arts Florissantes tonight, which was basically the K-tel "Top Hits of the 17th Century." Except unlike K-tel, this was beautiful and made me cry. Take this, "Pur Ti Miro," the big love aria duet (of course!) from The Coronation of Poppea:
I behold you,
I delight in you,
I press you
I tie you to me in a knot;
No longer do I suffer, do I die,
O my life
O my treasure.
I am yours
You are mine,
My hope: say it, say it!
Yes, yes, yes, yes!
You are, O my idol,
my beloved, my heart, my life, truly!
Why do people not sing THIS at weddings? It was really incredible. They even had a counter-tenor singing Nero. And it wasn't sappy like it looks here - it was beautiful, and it really did have me dabbing at my eyes.
If life were perfect I'd be eating chocolate chip cookie dough right now. Well, I guess it has nothing really to say about whether or not life is perfect, but the cookie dough is really good, I think in part because I get better butter and eggs here.
I behold you,
I delight in you,
I press you
I tie you to me in a knot;
No longer do I suffer, do I die,
O my life
O my treasure.
I am yours
You are mine,
My hope: say it, say it!
Yes, yes, yes, yes!
You are, O my idol,
my beloved, my heart, my life, truly!
Why do people not sing THIS at weddings? It was really incredible. They even had a counter-tenor singing Nero. And it wasn't sappy like it looks here - it was beautiful, and it really did have me dabbing at my eyes.
If life were perfect I'd be eating chocolate chip cookie dough right now. Well, I guess it has nothing really to say about whether or not life is perfect, but the cookie dough is really good, I think in part because I get better butter and eggs here.
