Carlo Gesualdo was a prince and landholder in Venosa in southeastern Italy. Around 1588 his wife began an affair with a gentleman in the vicinity. In 1590 Gesualdo, found the pair in bed together, stabbed them both, and hung their corpses in front of his castle for all to see. The story was retold repeatedly by poets of the day in a sixteenth-century equivalent of headline news. Was Gesualdo really a renegade as well as a murderer? Was he even a “modernist” of his time?
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Carlo Gesualdo was a prince and landholder in Venosa in southeastern Italy. Around 1588 his wife began an affair with a gentleman in the vicinity. In 1590 Gesualdo, found the pair in bed together, stabbed them both, and hung their corpses in front of his castle for all to see. The story was retold repeatedly by poets of the day in a sixteenth-century equivalent of headline news. Was Gesualdo really a renegade as well as a murderer? Was he even a “modernist” of his time?
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Works great – thanks!
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I just read this incredibly personal review of the performance by a U-M student, as posted on the Arts at Michigan website. Wow.
http://www3.arts.umich.edu/seen/2010/01/25/review…
Great review, and good idea to have a place/way to link to items like this.
Sara, thanks for posting that review. I saw the performance with my sister-in-law, and we both had that same visceral response to the reciting of the Whitman poem. The first time it was read, we were mildly interested and a little puzzled by its meaning; the second time, as we slowly realized we were in the midst of a slave auction, it was physically sickening. I will not forget that moment for a long time.