Seventeen-year-old Angelica Voglia has the voice of an angel. But in seventeenth-century Rome, the pope has forbidden women to sing in public. To make matters worse, her controlling mother is determined to marry her off to a wealthy nobleman, even though Angelica is in love with a poor French artist. Angelica's only hope to sing before an audience—and escape a forced marriage—is to flee to Queen Christina's court, where she will become the queen's soprano. But she soon discovers that the palace walls are not completely secure . . . and her freedom will require even greater sacrifice than she imagined.
Goodreads - The Queen's Soprano
Ideas for what I am thinking about doing with it;
Goodreads - The Queen's Soprano
Ideas for what I am thinking about doing with it;
- Angelica 'writes' a song about the dark-skinned slaves
- Could be a poem
- Has a hand maid in Spain, a dark-skinned woman who she becomes fond of
- Lucia and Angelica's brother could move to Spain too because of reasons.
- Or just Lucia and the baby could follow Angelica
- Include Italian and/or Spanish words
- Include stage directions, if it's a song.
- Could also be letters sent between Lucia and Angelica
Hi Sarah,
ReplyDeleteAs discussed in class, this sounds like a really good start, and certainly there are a lot of possibilities here.
I do like the letter idea.
They have a possibly very 'personal' and 'confessional' tone.
You could explore Anjelica's social position, Lucia's + also the slaves if they make an appearance, via. 2 perspectives
Esther:)
Hi Sarah
ReplyDeleteThe story you have chosen is a perfect example of tales relating to women who feel opressed or ruled in some way with examples relating to elements such as Pride and Prejudice and/to Moll Flanders. The character of Angelica seems to be in a situation similar to the character of the latter character (Moll Flanders) because she feels ruled the only difference is Moll's family is not a direct part of her story and she is a slave girl under the burden of her abusive mistress Mrs Alworthy whereas here Angelica is under the burden of her mother
I think this is a good example of a story relating to women who are struggling to break free of the pressures that they are subjected to
Good luck here
Hey Sarah,
ReplyDeleteJust putting this out there; I reckon don't do the letters thing. It'll just become a headache having to establish the two distinctively different but mildly similar voices of each text. I dunno, these things always tend to take me a lot longer than if I was working with a single voice. Maybe just something to consider? I know you can write, and obviously you're capable of doing this, but keep in mind the extra work it will present.
Also, I feel like the "correspondence" format is a little bit restrictive, because while it contributes and builds to a narrative, there are still many things you won't be able to include. Think of how much rawer and powerful the scenes would be when these injustices happen to her, rather than her recounting them?
I dunno, I'm kind of just trying to imagine it and I think it would work better outside of the letter framework. Not that I'm familiar with the original work so maybe this is all a little bit redundant. I do think the inclusion of Spanish and/or Italian words would be cool though. It's a pity you cant use some of your fluent French :p