Word: prophetesses
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...barreling along in Act II of Berlioz's The Trojans. Troy is in flames. The Greeks are rampaging. As conductor John Eliot Gardiner whips the orchestra to a boil, the prophetess Cassandra (Anna Caterina Antonacci) soars into an aria of despair and defiance, urging the other Trojan women to kill themselves. But hold on. Let's take a moment to hear how director Yannis Kokkos sees this scene. (Cassandra's "vision of fatality," he says, achieves for Troy "a kind of revenge by immolation.") Next, let's cut to Gardiner. (Conducting this music, he says, is "so deeply moving because...
...good ship prophetess is sailing the South Seas in the 1850s, bound for the gold fields of California, when she comes upon Bethlehem Bay, so renamed by missionaries who have ventured to the Society Islands to "civilize" the natives. When the shipmen and the emissaries of religion meet on the island,they naturally discuss (in perfect Melvillean cadences) the survival of the fittest and the plans of God. Yet all their talk of progress and a New Jerusalem has a slightly piquant air because we know what the future holds in store for them. An earlier section in Cloud Atlas...
...Cassandra, a prophetess who is to be raped by Agamemnon, Tess Mullen ’04 was eerily mad, whirling blindly while brandishing a sword and promising to kill her “husband”. Meneleus, performed by Richard J. Powell ’04, was dressed somewhere between a trailer park inhabitant, Egyptian, and rapper. Helen of Troy, was portrayed by Leah R. Lussier ’07 as a pouty sexpot accustomed to using her wiles...
With her latest album, Spears has cast herself as the prophetess of a maturing demographic of girls and their horribly repressed sexuality. Ultimately, her visions are not original, not interesting and not resonant with the world’s youth. No aspect of the multimedia extravaganza that is Britney Spears now fulfills the potential she once mastered. For all the runaway popularity she once enjoyed, Spears has made her greatest step yet to discard it entirely...