Dogs romping to "Rompo i Lacci"
October 26, 2018 10:59 AM Subscribe
Tilda Swinton directed a music video that's just her dogs running on a beach.
The piece is part of Opera Philadelphia's Glass Handel project.
The piece is part of Opera Philadelphia's Glass Handel project.
What good happy-looking dogs!
posted by rmd1023 at 11:13 AM on October 26, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by rmd1023 at 11:13 AM on October 26, 2018 [1 favorite]
TBH, I don't care about the music but if you can't enjoy watching dogs running on the beach, your heart is broke.
posted by doctor_negative at 11:27 AM on October 26, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by doctor_negative at 11:27 AM on October 26, 2018 [1 favorite]
Good dogs! This video is making me a bit misty. I had a Springer Spaniel with similar colouring as these when I was a little kid... I have a lot of fond memories of that dog.
posted by Ashwagandha at 11:56 AM on October 26, 2018
posted by Ashwagandha at 11:56 AM on October 26, 2018
Holy shit, Tilda Swinton's dogs romping on a beach to "Rompo i Lacci." I've been waiting all my life for this and I didn't even know it.
(One of the funny things about Flavio is that it imagines a time when the Lombards ruled Britain. The mighty Lombards!)
posted by octobersurprise at 11:56 AM on October 26, 2018 [4 favorites]
(One of the funny things about Flavio is that it imagines a time when the Lombards ruled Britain. The mighty Lombards!)
posted by octobersurprise at 11:56 AM on October 26, 2018 [4 favorites]
Swinton’s work debuts as part of art multimedia company Visionaire’s Glass Handel project, the official synopsis for which describes it as a an “hour-long live interdisciplinary installation” on display at New York City’s Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine for two nights beginning Nov. 26.With any luck, the dogs will be at the cathedral.
posted by clawsoon at 12:01 PM on October 26, 2018
With any luck, the dogs will be at the cathedral.
You got the right Cathedral, but that was a few weeks ago.
posted by The Bellman at 12:03 PM on October 26, 2018
You got the right Cathedral, but that was a few weeks ago.
posted by The Bellman at 12:03 PM on October 26, 2018
Hahahaha! From YouTube:
wait, Tilda Swinton directed th—(5:08) Oh.posted by lazaruslong at 12:47 PM on October 26, 2018 [2 favorites]
That was dynamic along all axes.
Realising some minutes in that stirring voice was male, I went to find out more about Flavio, and wikipedia's plot synopsis is as confusing and unlikely as your average opera story. But it seems the alto castrati were the principal male roles, including the king, and the sexy bad girl role was played by the female star who had her picture in all the papers (contralto), and her male lover was played by the other female star (soprano) and the plot hinges on such things as "She takes the sword but is unable to kill him and leaves**." and "(what's-his-name) now realises that he will have to show wise judgement like a good King" which, I dunno, is that the point at which the laces broke? It seems to have been a shimmering gender-bending extravaganza and i didn't know opera is like that if you go far enough back in time.
Those handsome dogs, like the music, just did not quit. What an amazing conjunction *fervent applause*
** there was a lynnetrussism there but i couldnt... quite... *strains fingers*
posted by glasseyes at 12:54 PM on October 26, 2018 [2 favorites]
Realising some minutes in that stirring voice was male, I went to find out more about Flavio, and wikipedia's plot synopsis is as confusing and unlikely as your average opera story. But it seems the alto castrati were the principal male roles, including the king, and the sexy bad girl role was played by the female star who had her picture in all the papers (contralto), and her male lover was played by the other female star (soprano) and the plot hinges on such things as "She takes the sword but is unable to kill him and leaves**." and "(what's-his-name) now realises that he will have to show wise judgement like a good King" which, I dunno, is that the point at which the laces broke? It seems to have been a shimmering gender-bending extravaganza and i didn't know opera is like that if you go far enough back in time.
Those handsome dogs, like the music, just did not quit. What an amazing conjunction *fervent applause*
** there was a lynnetrussism there but i couldnt... quite... *strains fingers*
posted by glasseyes at 12:54 PM on October 26, 2018 [2 favorites]
Is Anthony Roth Costanzo a male soprano? A counter tenor? What are the high male operatic voices?
posted by glasseyes at 1:05 PM on October 26, 2018
posted by glasseyes at 1:05 PM on October 26, 2018
Dogs, dogs, more dogs, and far too many rooms…posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 1:09 PM on October 26, 2018
I would like to be reincarnated as one of Tilda Swinton's dogs. I don't believe in reincarnation and Swinton is about 20 years older than I am, but regardless, this is my desire.
This was delightful and I was happy the dogs were named in the credits.
posted by darksong at 1:23 PM on October 26, 2018 [1 favorite]
This was delightful and I was happy the dogs were named in the credits.
posted by darksong at 1:23 PM on October 26, 2018 [1 favorite]
Is Anthony Roth Costanzo a male soprano? A counter tenor?
He's an countertenor, yes. The role is in the alto range, so not incredibly high for a countertenor, although they have to use falsetto to get to the notes that an alto castrato could reach in their modal register.
posted by howfar at 3:58 PM on October 26, 2018 [1 favorite]
He's an countertenor, yes. The role is in the alto range, so not incredibly high for a countertenor, although they have to use falsetto to get to the notes that an alto castrato could reach in their modal register.
posted by howfar at 3:58 PM on October 26, 2018 [1 favorite]
my god, this is everything
also:
Rompo i lacci, e frango i dardi
Che al mio sen' Amor scagliò;
Ma poi senza l’idol mio
Come, o Dio! Viver potrò!
I break the laces, and give up the darts
That Amor flung at my breast;
But then without my idol
How, O God! I will live!
posted by notquitemaryann at 8:00 PM on October 26, 2018 [1 favorite]
also:
Rompo i lacci, e frango i dardi
Che al mio sen' Amor scagliò;
Ma poi senza l’idol mio
Come, o Dio! Viver potrò!
I break the laces, and give up the darts
That Amor flung at my breast;
But then without my idol
How, O God! I will live!
posted by notquitemaryann at 8:00 PM on October 26, 2018 [1 favorite]
To quote Gervase Markham* - "The water dog is a creature of such general use, and so frequent in use amongst us here in England, that it is needless to make any large description of him: the rather since not any among us is so simple that he cannot say when he sees him: 'This is a water dog,' or 'a dog bred for the Water'....
*In "Hunger's Prevention, or the Whole Art of Fowling by Water and Land.
posted by Fuchsoid at 8:43 PM on October 26, 2018
*In "Hunger's Prevention, or the Whole Art of Fowling by Water and Land.
posted by Fuchsoid at 8:43 PM on October 26, 2018
This is great.
But - for me at least, and for obvious reasons - not quite as great as the time I discovered that a completely random person in Idaho had used one of my own tunes as the soundtrack for a video of their equally awesome doggos running around.
The big secret of music videos, it seems, is that whatever you do, it's not going to be as good as just filming some dogs running around and having the tune play in the background while they do.
Which, to be honest, is fair enough.
posted by motty at 10:18 PM on October 26, 2018 [5 favorites]
But - for me at least, and for obvious reasons - not quite as great as the time I discovered that a completely random person in Idaho had used one of my own tunes as the soundtrack for a video of their equally awesome doggos running around.
The big secret of music videos, it seems, is that whatever you do, it's not going to be as good as just filming some dogs running around and having the tune play in the background while they do.
Which, to be honest, is fair enough.
posted by motty at 10:18 PM on October 26, 2018 [5 favorites]
Tilda Swinton directed a music video that's just her dogs running on a beach yt .
if somebody gave me a pile of cash tomorrow and said, make a music video I'd probably do the same thing. Except there'd be just one dog and it would be a mutt, but it would still be way better than any of those dogs.
posted by philip-random at 11:37 PM on October 26, 2018
if somebody gave me a pile of cash tomorrow and said, make a music video I'd probably do the same thing. Except there'd be just one dog and it would be a mutt, but it would still be way better than any of those dogs.
posted by philip-random at 11:37 PM on October 26, 2018
good grief, that's a lot of singing for four lines of dialogue
posted by glasseyes at 6:44 AM on October 27, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by glasseyes at 6:44 AM on October 27, 2018 [2 favorites]
definitely, though in his defense, he's just promised to kill his new wife's father in order to avenge his own father's honor. You could say he's pretty baroquen up about it.
posted by notquitemaryann at 7:29 PM on October 27, 2018 [5 favorites]
posted by notquitemaryann at 7:29 PM on October 27, 2018 [5 favorites]
It does, perhaps unsurprisingly, remind me of what Derek Jarman was doing with Super 8 Cameras. Unsurprisingly because Swinton was a close collaborator with Jarman, and I think his approach with those cameras was an early sign of what would happen with modern smartphones (I'm taking it that this was shot on an iPhone, yes?).
It's not just dogs on a beach (or in a river), there are also a lot of what one might call flashbacks, filmed on different devices. I suspect she has a phenomenal amount of footage of her dogs to choose from. And why not?
I'd love to see more films by her/them (her partner Sandro Kopp is co-credited).
posted by Grangousier at 2:00 AM on October 30, 2018
It's not just dogs on a beach (or in a river), there are also a lot of what one might call flashbacks, filmed on different devices. I suspect she has a phenomenal amount of footage of her dogs to choose from. And why not?
I'd love to see more films by her/them (her partner Sandro Kopp is co-credited).
posted by Grangousier at 2:00 AM on October 30, 2018
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