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3) The tempest
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Prospero, exiled on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda, raises a magical tempest to wash ashore a ship carrying the enemies who usurped his dukedom years ago -- his brother Antonio and Alonso, the king of Naples. Alonso's son Ferdinand is feared dead but has washed to another part of the island, where he meets and falls in love with Miranda. Prospero punishes the usurpers and regains his dukedom, as Miranda gains a royal husband.
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Naxos AudioBooks
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English
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The ten selections represented in this recording pursue similar themes of death, ghostly reappearance, being buried alive, and other forms of mental and physical torture. They remain curiously effective even in the 21st century, when it could be presumed that the excessive style would lose its power to shock or move -- in th manner of an ornate Victorian graveyard.
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