This is one of my final assignment for Ornamentation and Recitative course at Longy Music of School. In this assignment, students are required to create their own recitative accompagnato based on the given text.
What I imagined is the character here is a queen betrayed by a man. She looked at her marriage contract with the man and recalled the happy times before. However, reality is the betrayal of men. She wants to represent justice and judge all those love rat.
Here is the translation for the text:
But what are these papers?
A marriage contract?
Good heavens! You’ve signed this,
there’s no use denying it!
Betrayed! Betrayed!
Ah, we shall discover the truth,
and then torrents, in rivers,
in sea blood flow!
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