Monday, March 16, 2015

MONDAY, MARCH 16, 2015

QUOTE:
"The history of a people is found in its songs."
AUTHOR: George Jellinek
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Man leaves behind his history through art.”















COMPOSER
ROSSINI

SEMIRAMIDE

OVERTURE

SEMIRAMIDE
OVERTURE
Riccardo Muti, Conductor
Wiener Philarmoniker
http://www.osbornmusic.com/semiramide.html
Semiramide is an
opera in two acts by
SEMIRAMIDE
Full Opera
Giulia Grisi in Semiramis
Paul Zizich, Conductor
Henry Lewis, Director
Pier Luigi Pizzi, Choir Director
Vittorio Siguri Orchestra
Chorus of the Teatro La Fenice
The libretto by Gaetano Rossi
is based on Voltaire's

François-Marie Arouet,
tragedy Semiramis,

Voltaire reading his tragedy Semiramis to King Stanislas of Poland
which in turn was based on
the legend of Semiramis
Semiramis (sĕmĭr`əmĭs) was a
mythical Assyrian queen,
Semiramis in 15th Century Artist's Conception - Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / Getty Images
Giovanni Boccaccio:  Semiramis (detail of a miniature from De Claris Mulieribus). 15th C

noted for her beauty and
wisdom. She was reputed to 
have conquered many lands and 
founded the city of Babylon.

After a long and prosperous reign
she vanished from earth in the
shape of a dove

and was thereafter worshiped
as a deity, acquiring many
of the characteristis of
the goddess Ishtar.