Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Médée

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Original – Luigi Cherubini's Médée (1909 version)

Reason: While not my highest-value score cover - this isn't temporally close to the original performance - this does, however, represent a major revision of the opera that was very influential: the late 1909 hybrid Italian version with translations of German recitatives. Okay, long story short, this is theoretically a grand tragic opera, but Cherubini never wrote the recitatives because the theatre he got to perform it was one of the theatres that did opéra-comique - e.g. operas with dialogue between the numbers; not necessarily with a happy ending. See [1] for more. He then translated it to Italian. In the 19th century, it was restored to a tragédie lyrique - but in a German translation. Then in 1909, the German recitatives were translated to Italian.

It's a little confusing.

Articles in which this image appears: Médée (Cherubini)
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Culture,_entertainment,_and_lifestyle/Theatre
Creator: Giuseppe Palanti; restored by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 03:01, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Artistically, this is my favourite of the covers I uploaded for you. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 04:37, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- It has a lot of lovely touches from the Art Nouveau/Art Deco transition. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 04:48, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good choice. Brandmeister^talk 08:47, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support-Jobas (talk) 17:36, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support- Bit somber for me, but the cleaning/restoration is excellent.--Godot13 (talk) 03:04, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Cherubini, Luigi - Medea - Restoration.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:02, 21 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]