Posts by Dave Fielding
Mirrors
The Cavalier
The Daffodills
The Burning Babe
“The Burning Babe” is a 16-line poem written in 1595 by Robert Southwell, an English Jesuit priest, and martyr who would later by ordained a saint. The poem depicts the speaker encountering a baby Jesus surrounded by flames, symbolizing his fiery love and the suffering he endures for humanity. The baby explains that the fire…
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King Saul – An Oratorio
Savonarola
Savonarola was Stanford’s second completed opera after the Veiled Prophet. It was written as a grand opera in the French style with a prologue and three acts. Like the Veiled Prophet, it was premiered in Germany and only presented in German in both Germany and England. The opera was premiered to considerable acclaim in Hamburg, Germany in the spring of 1884…
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