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Title: Mrs Gordon with a dagger
Post by: wilcoxon on Friday 02 March 18 14:43 GMT (UK)
She is a little pale, can anyone make her look better
Title: Re: Mrs Gordon with a dagger
Post by: jloy326 on Saturday 03 March 18 17:28 GMT (UK)
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Title: Re: Mrs Gordon with a dagger
Post by: wilcoxon on Saturday 03 March 18 17:50 GMT (UK)
Thanks , I wonder who she was supposed to be.
Title: Re: Mrs Gordon with a dagger
Post by: McGroger on Sunday 04 March 18 07:28 GMT (UK)
My try.
Peter
Title: Re: Mrs Gordon with a dagger
Post by: japeflakes on Sunday 04 March 18 08:03 GMT (UK)
Quite dark but....

Not Lady Macbeth then?

Title: Re: Mrs Gordon with a dagger
Post by: wilcoxon on Sunday 04 March 18 10:58 GMT (UK)
I found she was in Carmen, but in the role of Michaela, did she have a dagger, of course it may have been another opera altogether .
Title: Re: Mrs Gordon with a dagger
Post by: jim1 on Sunday 04 March 18 11:00 GMT (UK)
Strange my first thought was Lady McBeth.
I notice she wearing the same bodice & shoes as Mrs. Gordon on the bomb site.
Title: Re: Mrs Gordon with a dagger
Post by: Gadget on Sunday 04 March 18 11:02 GMT (UK)
I immediately thought of Lady Macbeth too.

'Is this a dagger that which I see before me....'

And don't mention the Play  :-X

Added -

https://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/dagger-which-see-before-me

PS - did Michaela have a dagger during the fight? I'm not an opera fan.
Title: Re: Mrs Gordon with a dagger
Post by: Treetotal on Sunday 04 March 18 16:05 GMT (UK)
Doesn't Juliet kill herself using Romeo's dagger?
Carol
Title: Re: Mrs Gordon with a dagger
Post by: wilcoxon on Sunday 04 March 18 16:48 GMT (UK)
She does indeed, maybe the production company were using costumes in more than one opera. Does she look like a Juliet.
Title: Re: Mrs Gordon with a dagger
Post by: Mike in Cumbria on Sunday 04 March 18 16:59 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Treetotal on Sunday 04 March 18 16:05 GMT (UK)
Doesn't Juliet kill herself using Romeo's dagger?
Carol

Juliet does look a good bet, as she appears to be pointing the dagger towards herself.
Title: Re: Mrs Gordon with a dagger
Post by: Gadget on Sunday 04 March 18 17:34 GMT (UK)
Just before she commits suicide she takes Romeo's dagger and says:

 "O happy dagger! This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die."


(Can't remember what she said in West Side Story )
Title: Re: Mrs Gordon with a dagger
Post by: jim1 on Sunday 04 March 18 18:53 GMT (UK)
I want to go to America wasn't it.
Title: Re: Mrs Gordon with a dagger
Post by: Gadget on Sunday 04 March 18 18:58 GMT (UK)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCFhAb71Wkw

The finale  :)

Title: Re: Mrs Gordon with a dagger
Post by: Viktoria on Sunday 04 March 18 19:02 GMT (UK)
The names--we'll some of them--in the newspaper cutting are from Carmen. Escamillo ,Don Juan, Carmen.
She looks absolutely, terribly harmless  ;D
Is she a relative of yours,.If Carmen she would be a soprano but sometimes a mezzo soprano sings the role.
It is funny how each fashion imposes its style on theatrical costumes.
                                Viktoria.
Title: Re: Mrs Gordon with a dagger
Post by: wilcoxon on Sunday 04 March 18 19:30 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Viktoria on Sunday 04 March 18 19:02 GMT (UK)
The names--we'll some of them--in the newspaper cutting are from Carmen. Escamillo ,Don Juan, Carmen.
She looks absolutely, terribly harmless  ;D
Is she a relative of yours,.If Carmen she would be a soprano but sometimes a mezzo soprano sings the role.
It is funny how each fashion imposes its style on theatrical costumes.
                                Viktoria.

she played Michaela in Carmen,