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Silver City Risen, by Sophonisba (Documentation/Song and Dance|Amnesty 2006)

Jan 01, 2007 17:20

-title- Silver City Risen
-author- Sophonisba (saphanibaal)
-challenges- Documentation Challenge, Song and Dance challenge
-warnings- Operatic version of history, with added love affairs and tragic death.
-pairings- Within the opera, Teyla/AR-1, Carson/Perna, OMC/OFC, Sheppard/McKay, Weir/Sheppard, and Sheppard/McKay/Teyla
-characters- First season ensemble
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challenge: song and dance, amnesty 2006, challenge: documentation, author: saphanibaal

Comments 42

mercurydraconix January 2 2007, 01:38:12 UTC

you rock hardcore.

saphanibaal January 2 2007, 18:11:46 UTC

Thank you!

fullygoldy January 2 2007, 03:33:19 UTC

Gods! I would totally love to hear the score of this! REally, truly, fantastic. This would be a great multi-media project!

saphanibaal January 2 2007, 18:22:09 UTC

//I would totally love to hear the score of this!//

SO WOULD I.

(Of course, I can always listen to "I'm Going To Go Back There Someday," but I'm quite sure it would sound very different out of a barrel-chested soprano with fifty years of voice training to full orchestral accompaniment.) ^_^

And it would be a great project... have we any burgeoning Peter Schickeles among us?

mecurtin January 2 2007, 04:51:03 UTC

Things I love! taken at random:

1) the castrati (Sheppard=soprano! I will never stop finding this funny), and RODNI as the first great role for an entire adult male. Manly, yes he is!

2) I keep trying to spot the songs. I assume "Wonder of wonder, marvel of marvels" is from Fiddler on the Roof -- are there any others not in your notes? I fear "Cherish" is this one, which is . . . hard for me to hear in Rodney's voice.

3) Penates=Genii! Latin jokes of GLEE!

4) "Rodni sings of his love for the clear beauty of science, which was and is and shall be, before human beings crawled up from the muck and long after not even their bones remain." That's my boy.

5) The confusions of Act 2 Scene 3. Ah, opera. Ah, scriptwriters.

There should definitely be a fanmix for this. And picture! And vids!

saphanibaal January 2 2007, 19:39:21 UTC

Thank you for your commentary!

1) //(Sheppard=soprano! I will never stop finding this funny)//

Hey, he's the lead male role. The leading male almost always gets the highest voice, so it'll carry over everyone else.

(I actually came up with the Satedan castrati for a throwaway line where Ronon confesses "When I was little, I wanted to be a mounted cowherd when I grew up. Either that or a prime-singer like Vashok Rhenn, but my voice wasn't good enough to justify the operation" and Sheppard and McKay are both thinking "Um... okay... not going there"... but although a version of that made it into the extended version of "Far and Far From Land," it seemed too funny to me not to go into more fully.)

As for Rodney... it's silly enough to have someone with a full beard being sung by a castrato, but for somebody who's balding... (granted, Giulio Cesare certainly did.) and I have this vague mental image that, since I posited Sora as the first of the great Genii composers, they don't exactly have castrati of their own (seriously, you'd have ( ... )

mecurtin January 3 2007, 01:19:34 UTC

the extended version of "Far and Far From Land

Point me to it! I can't find you on Wraithbait.

saphanibaal January 3 2007, 08:49:48 UTC

I put a link or two in the sga_flashfic cut, but it's here if you missed it.

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kiezh January 2 2007, 13:56:09 UTC

Wow. I want to see this opera! And read the story of its creation. Also, I bet there's fanfic based on it on some Pegasus worlds.

saphanibaal January 2 2007, 19:49:04 UTC

I would shell out the money for a ticket (and I'm currently unemployed).

I don't exactly have the story of its creation, but I do have a half-finished story about the first time Atlanteans saw it...

Fanfic. Dear heaven. Of course there would be. Especially after a few decades.

kbk January 2 2007, 22:31:46 UTC

This rocks so hard. Seriously, it's just aces.

Though I have to admit, one of the things I'm thinking is that there's never any big parts for my voice... heh.

It took me a while to parse this bit:
The song ends as Carson and Perna discover a serum that they believe will work, and the Major-captain's household collects their captive Wraith to try it out. He reaches for the test subject, rears back theatrically, and dies upon the spot.
For some reason, I thought 'he' meant Sheppard, and 'test subject' the Wraith; I had to actively recall the episode to work out what was really going on. I mean, that's probably just me being freakish and weird.

These lines made me squee So Hard:
the import of Rodni opening with "I eventually began talking again, of course" is not readily apparent ( ... )

saphanibaal January 3 2007, 08:41:53 UTC

Thank you very much!

What are you, a contralto?

Hm. When I put it up elsewhere, I'll change it to "Hoffan test subject," which should clarify.

//the import of Rodni opening with "I eventually began talking again, of course"//

His next line is "It's hard to let people know that they're about to die horribly before they actually do so if you don't yell." ^_^

The science lyric -- even snarky and skewering can't be taking potshots all the time.

//"Now at last I see clear"/"Clear as mud."//

A lot of opera lyrics make about as much sense (and have as much rhetorical value) as that, once you get right down to it. ^_^

Once again, thank you for naming parts you specially liked.