Almaviva

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mainly discusses Count Almaviva in connection with The Marriage of Figaro, as a figure of the feudal droit de seigneur: the lord who claims the right to sleep with Susanna before Figaro does12. In the Musicosophie sessions devoted to Mozart, he specifies that the Count delays Susanna's wedding in order to exercise this right and believes he has won her in the duettino3, but that he is ultimately ridiculed and fails to impose it4. He also treats the Count as a type of the aristocratic libertine, whom he links to Sade5 and places sometimes in The Marriage of Figaro, sometimes in The Barber of Seville. In 2023, discussing Clouscard, he describes him as a Spanish nobleman who transgresses morality as he pleases6. On the musical level, he also uses him as an example of recitative as opposed to aria7.

1. 1Argent, travail, liberté3 Aug 2019 · 33:34
2. 2Musicosophie 8. Bonheur et malheur en musique11 Jan 2021 · 40:05
3. 3Musicosophie 14. Mozart derechef7 Feb 2021 · 1:41:58
4. 4Musicosophie 13. Mozart restitué2 Feb 2021 · 1:05:26
5. 5Au bistrot avec Pagani : partie 118 Jun 2016 · 21:53
6. 6Attention aux contresens !! Clouscard et l'idéologie du désir, en hommage au Précepteur14 Jan 2023 · 41:15
7. 7Au bistrot avec Pagani : partie 118 Jun 2016 · 1:00:26

Summary produced automatically from 11 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.