Word: arietta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grace After Grandeur. The music goes into an arietta by Lully (Louis XIV's favorite composer), sung in a sweetly plaintive soprano voice. From the 17 great windows of the Hall of Mirrors, lights blaze as courtiers chatter and fawn. In the distance a voice proclaims, "Gentlemen, the King!" The monarch's cane clumps louder and louder on the floor as he approaches, and a burst of triumphal music rings out as "the greatest King" enters...