Spot the Reference: Akt 11
Hello, Tutuistas! This entry in Spot the Reference is going up one day early, since I'm going away for the holidays. Last entry was here.
Subtitle: La Sylphide
Heart Shard: Love
Introduction: (Note: Still fansub, but I'll edit in the official when I get back home. After this it's official translations all the way!)
Once upon a time, there lived a girl with unbridled wings.
There was a man who loved her. He thought that if he bound her wings, he would never have to be separated from her for even an instant. But when he covered her wings with a magic shawl, her wings fell off, and the girl died.
The man did not know that the girl's wings were the source of her life.
New music:
Edel takes the jewel called “love,” Fakir thinks about Tutu: Beethoven, Ludwig von: Coriolan Overture
Fakir speaks to Ahiru but refuses to work with her, Rue and Myuto walk together: Mussorgsky, Modest (orch. Ravel): Pictures at an Exhibition: The Old Castle
Mytho wonders to whom to give the jewel called “love”: Wagner, Richard: Gotterdämerung: Music from Act III, Scene 2 - “Siegfried’s Death March”
Ahiru thinks about Fakir’s solitude and hidden kindness, Mytho asks Fakir to not fight with Tutu: Chopin, Frederic: Mazurka Op.6, No.1 in f-sharp minor
Ahiru searches for Mytho and finds him at the ruined stage: Borodin, Alexander (orch. unknown): String Quartet No.2 in D-Major: Mvt 3 “Nocturne” (orchestral)
Ahiru becomes Tutu, Mytho gives Tutu the jewel, Tutu returns the Heart Shard to him and is trapped by Kraehe, Kraehe defeats Fakir and disappears with Mytho: Løvenskiold, Herman: La Sylphide: Act II, No.8 - Finale
The first version of the ballet La Sylphide was written for the same ballerina who had her shoes eaten. This version had music by Filippo Taglioni, though, while the music used here is by Herman Løvenskiold. A Sylph is a mythical being of the air.
The opening narration references a fairly common fairy tale/myth trope of trapping someone by taking something important to them - a name, an animal pelt, chain their wings...I can't find any specific examples right now, though.
Rue/Kraehe offers to change the jewel so it will bind the love of the person who gets it. Love potion reference, but also the bound wings from the narration (and then Tutu's bound with something that looks like wings).
Edel gets the jewel from a bear lady.
I thought it was a nice detail that Duck/Ahiru goes by Ebine's cafe while looking for Mytho, and we see that there are a lot of guests there.
Mytho says he doesn't need to know Tutu's feelings as long as she's happy - that's Ahiru/Duck's motivation! And it's only after he says this that the feeling of love comes out of the jewel.
Drosselmeyer forshadows: is Kraehe really the monster raven/the villain? It's dangerous not to know your role...(this is also directed at Fakir.)
Until next week, and happy holidays!
Subtitle: La Sylphide
Heart Shard: Love
Introduction: (Note: Still fansub, but I'll edit in the official when I get back home. After this it's official translations all the way!)
Once upon a time, there lived a girl with unbridled wings.
There was a man who loved her. He thought that if he bound her wings, he would never have to be separated from her for even an instant. But when he covered her wings with a magic shawl, her wings fell off, and the girl died.
The man did not know that the girl's wings were the source of her life.
New music:
Edel takes the jewel called “love,” Fakir thinks about Tutu: Beethoven, Ludwig von: Coriolan Overture
Fakir speaks to Ahiru but refuses to work with her, Rue and Myuto walk together: Mussorgsky, Modest (orch. Ravel): Pictures at an Exhibition: The Old Castle
Mytho wonders to whom to give the jewel called “love”: Wagner, Richard: Gotterdämerung: Music from Act III, Scene 2 - “Siegfried’s Death March”
Ahiru thinks about Fakir’s solitude and hidden kindness, Mytho asks Fakir to not fight with Tutu: Chopin, Frederic: Mazurka Op.6, No.1 in f-sharp minor
Ahiru searches for Mytho and finds him at the ruined stage: Borodin, Alexander (orch. unknown): String Quartet No.2 in D-Major: Mvt 3 “Nocturne” (orchestral)
Ahiru becomes Tutu, Mytho gives Tutu the jewel, Tutu returns the Heart Shard to him and is trapped by Kraehe, Kraehe defeats Fakir and disappears with Mytho: Løvenskiold, Herman: La Sylphide: Act II, No.8 - Finale
The first version of the ballet La Sylphide was written for the same ballerina who had her shoes eaten. This version had music by Filippo Taglioni, though, while the music used here is by Herman Løvenskiold. A Sylph is a mythical being of the air.
The opening narration references a fairly common fairy tale/myth trope of trapping someone by taking something important to them - a name, an animal pelt, chain their wings...I can't find any specific examples right now, though.
Rue/Kraehe offers to change the jewel so it will bind the love of the person who gets it. Love potion reference, but also the bound wings from the narration (and then Tutu's bound with something that looks like wings).
Edel gets the jewel from a bear lady.
I thought it was a nice detail that Duck/Ahiru goes by Ebine's cafe while looking for Mytho, and we see that there are a lot of guests there.
Mytho says he doesn't need to know Tutu's feelings as long as she's happy - that's Ahiru/Duck's motivation! And it's only after he says this that the feeling of love comes out of the jewel.
Drosselmeyer forshadows: is Kraehe really the monster raven/the villain? It's dangerous not to know your role...(this is also directed at Fakir.)
Until next week, and happy holidays!