Monday, April 13, 2009

La Donna È Mobile


"La donna è mobile" ('the woman is fickle' or movable, unstable, changeable) is the Duke of Mantua's complaint in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto (1851).

The Duke is a callous playboy himself. So who is really mobile?

A wise friend I knew about the same time I was trying to know the artist said we're most likely to accuse others of something we don't like about ourselves.



Illustration: 'Puzzle' by Nikki Nash (2004)
Music: East Village Opera Company (2005)
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