fdelopera:Merry Christine … er … Christmas to my POTO Secret Santa giftee, @fauchelevent! You mentio
fdelopera:Merry Christine … er … Christmas to my POTO Secret Santa giftee, @fauchelevent! You mentioned that you enjoyed Leroux’s description of Christine invoking the angels in “The Masterstroke of the Trapdoor Lover,” so I have shared my translation of that section from the Gaulois publication (as screencaptured above). I hope you have a happy day full of love and light, and enjoy this little morsel of Leroux!More and more, Christine was losing her self-confidence. She was trembling. She was heading for a catastrophe… Carolus Fonta asked himself if she might be unwell, and wondered if she would be able to hold the stage until the end of the act, which was the garden scene. In the house, the audience recalled the misfortune that befell La Carlotta at the end of that act, and the legendary “couac” that had momentarily suspended her career in Paris.Just then, La Carlotta made her arrival, appearing in a box facing the stage. It was a sensational entrance. Poor Christine raised her eyes towards this new source of commotion. She recognized her rival. She thought she saw her sneer. This was her salvation. She put all her thoughts aside so that she might triumph once more.From that moment on, she sang with all her soul! She strove to surpass all that she had achieved up till then, and she succeeded. In the final act, when she began to invoke the angels and ascend from the stage, she transported the entire quavering audience with her in the same flight, and each person believed that they too had wings. At that superhuman cry, in the center of the auditorium, a man rose to his feet and remained standing, facing the actress, as if with a single motion he too were leaving the earth… It was Raoul.Angels pure! Angels so bright!Angels pure! Angels so bright!And Christine, her arms outstretched, her voice ablaze, enveloped in the glory of her hair which spilled over her bare shoulders, hurled forth the divine cry:Carry my soul to Heaven’s light! -- source link
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