Re: [lojban] .i.i'o mi cpedu lo jbopre - [Appreciation] I'll ask the Lojbanistani.

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

2010/9/14 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>

2010/9/14 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It would be awesome to have a Lojban opera, and I think we should try.
>
> One already exists. Well, it's actually part in Italian and part in Lojban.
>
> The author's name is Pietro Viviani. The opera is called "Il viaggio
> di Nocapisce". The fourth scene of the third act is in Lojban, the
> rest in Italian. He composed it in 1999 and asked me to help him with
> the Lojban lyrics and then sent me a copy of the libretto. In his
> letter he said he was going to send it to a competition in Spoleto.
>
> A Google search for "Il viaggio di Nocapisce" gives this:
> http://www.tonkuenstlerfest.ch/pdf/programme_2003_fetedesmusiciens.pdf
> On page 34 there's a photograph of Pietro Viviani. No mention of Lojban though.

Correction: page 39.

>
> I had completely forgotten about this, had to search among old papers
> to find the libretto.
>
> mu'o mi'e xorxes

Um, I don't think that counts, are we allowed to use it as a starting point?

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