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Bad Dante Bad English Bad Opera Chamber Opera, Production Company Spreafico Eckly (2022)

March 26, 2022 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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“Bad Dante Bad English Bad Opera is a new version of Dante’s classic Purgatory from The Divine Comedy. The strict verse form from the original Italian version has been maintained, but the text has been rewritten into anti-academic “street language” English.

“From a stripped-down stage, four singers/actors and three string players present the first nine cantos of Purgatory: Antepurgatorio. Here, in transit between hell and paradise, Dante meets the souls who are waiting to atone for their sins. Human emotions such as imperfection, justice, confusion, and tolerance are explored in a smart, refreshing, and humorous way.

“The chamber opera Bad Dante Bad English Bad Opera is created by Spreafico Eckly, the Bergen-based production company of writer and theatre director Andrea Spreafico, and composer and artist Matteo Fargion.” [. . .]    —Bergen International Festival (retrieved March 26, 2022)

The opera will have its world premiere at the Bergen International Festival on June 7-8, 2022. Learn more about the opera and watch a trailer here.

Categories: Music, Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2022, Bergen, Chamber Music, Emotions, Festivals, Humor, Live Performances, Norway, Operas, Performance Art, Purgatorio, Purgatory

“Abandon All Shoes” Door Mat on Etsy

October 15, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

Product posted to the Etsy marketplace by seller Sarah Martin, owner of the shop bearfoxsea (last accessed October 15, 2021).

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: Abandon All Hope, Doorways, Etsy, Humor, Inferno, Puns, Shoes

Community, Season 5, Basic Story (2014)

August 19, 2021 By Ezra Berman '23

“The insurance appraiser in the Season 5 episode ‘Basic Story’ of Community recites from Paradiso XVII.58 as he climbs the short staircase in the entrance of Greendale Community College: ‘And you shall find that salt is the taste of another man’s bread, and hard is the way up and down another man’s stairs.’”    —Wikipedia

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2014, Humor, Paradiso, Television

Guide to Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell

June 16, 2021 By Ezra Berman '23

“Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy is considered an epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon. We offer this short guide to the nine circles of Hell, as described in Dante’s Inferno.

“First Circle: Limbo
The first circle is home to the unbaptized and virtuous pagans. It’s not Heaven, but as far as Hell goes, it isn’t too bad: It’s the retirement community of the afterlife. Hippocrates and Aristotle will be your neighbors, so any attempt at small talk will probably turn into Big Talk in a hurry. You’ll have television, but all of the channels will be set to CSPAN.” [. . .]    –Matt Staggs, Penguin Random House

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: Circles of Hell, Hell, Humor, Inferno

The 10th Circle of Hell is Southwest Airlines

June 16, 2021 By Ezra Berman '23

 

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In her blog, Geraldine DeRuiter takes issue with her experience with Southwest Airlines’ seating policy, writing, “THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DO NOT HAVE ASSIGNED SEATING. Everyone has an “it’s me or them” mentality that extends to the entire flight.  I want to sit here. . .”

“There is a special circle of hell for all of these people” [. . .]    –Geraldine DeRuiter, The Everywhereist, March 8, 2017.

Categories: Dining & Leisure, Written Word
Tagged with: 2017, Blogs, Circles of Hell, Hell, Humor, Inferno, Planes, Tenth Circle

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