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Decanonized · Thursday · 1 hr 8 min

Il trovatore with Patrick Summers

Emotional regulation wasn’t widely available in 15th-century Spain. Conductor and author Patrick Summers joins us to talk about Verdi’s Il trovatore, in which the outsider is portrayed as a human being with actual feelings, the villain has interiority, the heroine takes charge of the world around her, and the tenor is a golden retriever with some very seductive tunes. Additional topics include: death by laughter, Carl Jung, golden retriever tenors, and teddy-bear stabbings. Follow Patrick on Facebook, and check out his new book, Tapestries: Connections from an Artistic Life. Full episode page and show notes for Il Trovatore at decanonized.com. Follow Decanonized on Instagram at @decanonized and on Patreon.

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Emotional regulation wasn’t widely available in 15th-century Spain. Conductor and author Patrick Summers joins us to talk about Verdi’s Il trovatore, in which the outsider is portrayed as a human being with actual feelings, the villain has interiority, the heroine takes charge of the world around her, and the tenor is a golden retriever with some very seductive tunes.

Additional topics include: death by laughter, Carl Jung, golden retriever tenors, and teddy-bear stabbings.

Follow Patrick on Facebook, and check out his new book, Tapestries: Connections from an Artistic Life.

Full episode page and show notes for Il Trovatore at decanonized.com.

Follow Decanonized on Instagram at @decanonized and on Patreon.

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