Friday, October 18, 2019
BARIHUNKS ®: Barihunk switch in Lyric Opera of Chicago's Don Gi...
BARIHUNKS ®: Barihunk switch in Lyric Opera of Chicago's Don Gi...: Lucas Meachem as Don Giovanni Lucas Meachem will replace Ildar Abdrazakov in the Lyric Opera of Chicago's production of Mozart's...
Saturday, October 12, 2019
BARIHUNKS ®: Barihunk Quartet making Lyric Opera of Chicago deb...
BARIHUNKS ®: Barihunk Quartet making Lyric Opera of Chicago debuts in Don Giovanni ...: Ildar Abdrazakov, Brendon Cedel and Davide Luciano Four barihunks will be making their Lyric Opera of Chicago debuts in the upcoming pro...
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Attila, King of the Huns
Attila, King of the Huns
New translation, by John R. Pierce, of Corneille's Attila, Roi des Huns
Paperback
Paperback: 116 pages
Publisher: Independently published (September 11, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1692087061
ISBN-13: 978-1692087067
Kindle edition
Friday, September 6, 2019
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Cinna, or The Clemency of Augustus
I have recently published my English translation of Pierre Corneille's play Cinna, or The Clemency of Augustus, in iambic pentameter (unrhymed). It is available from Amazon as a paperback or as a Kindle ebook.
Cinna, his beloved Emilia, and his friend Maximus are participants in a plot to assassinate the Roman emperor Augustus Caesar. What will happen to them when Augustus learns of the plot?
The first performance of Cinna occurred either late in 1640 or early in 1641, most likely at the Théâtre du Marais in Paris, where Le Cid and Horace had previously been performed. The text of Cinna was printed and published in 1643. The subject matter of the play was derived from a chapter in Seneca’s De Clementia.
Pierre Corneille (June 6, 1606 – October 1, 1684) was one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.
---John R. Pierce
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
In our events
In our events always some cares are there
Disturbing the completeness of our peace.
--Don Diego in Act III of Corneille’s The Cid
(translated by John R. Pierce).
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