Sword Slinging and Opera Singing

12/01/22 • 14 min

In this episode, opera singer Marisa Lenhardt looks into the history and legacy of one of opera’s most audacious singers, who counterbalanced her stage time with sword fighting.

A sword-fighting bisexual opera singer who set fire to a convent to get her lover out? [yawn] But she could SING. King Louis XIV and Paris Opera thought so, and the first non-Soprano role in French opera was written for her. Her about her exploits, her sword fights, her royal pardons and, far more interestingly, her vocal journey.

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In this episode, opera singer Marisa Lenhardt looks into the history and legacy of one of opera’s most audacious singers, who counterbalanced her stage time with sword fighting.

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Transcript

The two young women, alternating between giggles and sombre awareness of their crime, dragged the dead body from its repose into the bedroom of the younger woman. Emboldened by the swagger of young love, they set fire to the room, the corpse, and their meager belongings, before fleeing the scene.

It was not the perfect crime.

The young novice, the one who had been seduced, returned to her family, in shame. The main perpetrator, the novice who had entered the convent in pursuit of