![]() ![]() Which is why, in part, director Darren Aronofsky was inspired to create his blockbuster film, Black Swan, based on this ballet. Sorcery, spells, transformation, human-swan hybrids, and other dualities and duplicities drive the tale. Infused with dark magic through and through, the tale of Odette and Siegfried’s star-crossed love is full of tropes from the days of Merlin and King Arthur, as well as imagery in our contemporary genres of fantasy film, TV, games, and literature. ![]() The ballet’s narrative is, itself, captivating. (An earlier production, The Lake of the Swans, premiered in 1877, with choreography by Julius Reisinger, and was quickly retired.) To what does the iconic romantic ballet, Swan Lake, owe its mystique? The “most imperfect but powerful of all Russian ballets,” as Jennifer Homans describes the work in her immensely readable new ballet history, Apollo’s Angels, Swan Lake has been transfixing generations of balletomanes (and the uninitiated or indifferent guests they happen to drag along) since choreographers Petipa and Ivanov‘s production (to Tchaikovsky’s music) premiered in St. ![]() 1Courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures 2Courtesy of Northrop and the Voronezh State Ballet Theatre of Russia 3Courtesy of Northrop and the Voronezh State Ballet Theatre of Russia 4Courtesy of Northrop and the Voronezh State Ballet Theatre of Russia 5Courtesy of Northrop and the Voronezh State Ballet Theatre of Russia 6Courtesy of Northrop and the Voronezh State Ballet Theatre of Russia 7Courtesy of Northrop and the Voronezh State Ballet Theatre of Russia 8Courtesy of Northrop and the Voronezh State Ballet Theatre of Russia 9Courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures ![]()
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![]() ![]() In some stories they produced a son and a daughter they named after themselves these children survived their parents and had adventures of their own. Further variants refine this aspect even more, with the two plants being said to have been hazel and honeysuckle.Ī few later stories even record that the lovers had a number of children. Later tellings sweeten this aspect of the story, by having Tristan's grave grow a briar, but Iseult's grave grow a rose tree, which then intertwine with each other. This behaviour of briars would have been very familiar to medieval people who worked on the land. It goes on that King Mark tries to have the branches cut three separate times, and each time the branches grow back and intertwine. In French sources, such as those picked over in the English translation by Hilaire Belloc in 1903, it is stated that a thick bramble briar grows out of Tristan's grave, growing so much that it forms a bower and roots itself into Iseult's grave. Geneviève and Lancelot at the Tombs of Isolde and Tristan by Eugénie Servières (c. Some texts of the Prose Tristan use the traditional account of Tristan's death as found in the poetic versions. Tristan dies of grief, thinking that Iseult has betrayed him, and Iseult dies swooning over his corpse. Iseult agrees to return to Tristan with Kahedin, but Tristan's jealous wife, Iseult of the White Hands, lies to Tristan about the colour of the sails. Tristan tells Kahedin to sail back with white sails if he is bringing Iseult, and black sails if he is not (an echo of the Greek myth of Theseus). Tristan sends his friend Kahedin to find Iseult of Ireland, the only person who can heal him. In Thomas' account, Tristan is wounded by a poisoned lance while attempting to rescue a young woman from six knights. The poetic versions of the Tristan legend offer a very different account of the hero's death. In the most popular variants of the Prose Tristan and the derived works, Tristan is mortally wounded by King Mark when he strikes Tristan, who is playing a harp for Iseult, with an enchanted lance that had been given to him by Morgan le Fay. Tristan, Iseult and King Mark in The End of the Song by Edmund Leighton (1902) ![]() Tristan then travels to Brittany, where he marries (for her name and her beauty) Iseult of the White Hands, daughter of Hoel of Brittany and sister of Kahedin. They make peace with Mark after Tristan's agreement to return Iseult of Ireland to Mark and leave the country. The lovers escape into the forest of Morrois and take shelter there until discovered by Mark. Tristan escapes on his way to the gallows, makes a miraculous leap from a chapel, and rescues Iseult. Mark acquires what seems proof of their guilt and resolves to punish them: Tristan by hanging and Iseult by burning at the stake, later lodging her in a leper colony. Also present is the endangerment of a fragile kingdom, the cessation of war between Ireland and Cornwall ( Dumnonia). Tristan's uncle eventually learns of the affair and seeks to entrap his nephew and his bride. But every night, each has horrible dreams about the future. Tristan honours and respects King Mark as his mentor and adopted father Iseult is grateful that Mark is kind to her and Mark loves Tristan as his son and Iseult as a wife. In Béroul's version, the love potion eventually wears off, and the two lovers are free to make their own choice as to whether to continue their adulterous relationship.Īs with the Arthur– Lancelot– Guinevere love triangle in the medieval courtly love motif, Tristan, King Mark, and Iseult of Ireland all love each other. The king's advisors repeatedly endeavour to have the pair tried for adultery, but the couple continually use trickery to preserve their façade of innocence. Although Iseult marries Mark, she and Tristan are forced by the spell to seek one another, as lovers. In some versions, they ingest the potion accidentally in others, the potion's maker instructs Iseult to share it with Mark, but she deliberately gives it to Tristan instead. In the legend's courtly branch (see below), the potion's effects last a lifetime, but the potion's effects wane after three years in the common branch. Along the way, they ingest a love potion which causes the pair to fall madly in love. ![]() After defeating the Irish knight Morholt, Tristan travels to Ireland to bring back the fair Iseult (also appearing under various spellings) for his uncle, King Mark of Cornwall, to marry. ![]() ![]() ![]() The portal will now look similar to the following, (although you will have a private and public IP address showing, along with the DNS Name): Click on Save and restart the VM to update the new settings if required.Note: the long name for our example will be .com. Add the short name of the host, in this case, oracledb2.Change the IP Address to STATIC- yes, this will require a reboot of the VM, that’s alright.In the top section of the overview, last one on the right hand side, along with pertinent information about the VM, Private and Public IP Address, you’ll also see the option to configure the DNS Name:Ĭlick on Configure and then you’ll be taken to the page to configure it.Īgain, make sure your Listener is shut down, as it relies on the updates we’re making to understand it’s “location”, so this will save you from having to run a kill command on the Listener PID for force it to shutdown. Go to the Resource group where the VM was deployed to.So you may be asking how to fix this as an Oracle DBA? Configure DNS in AzureĪlthough there is a way to do this as part of the azure VM creation, if you’re following the directions, it wouldn’t have occurred, so let’s log into the portal and address the DNS issue. Not the best of names and not something you want to have for any length of time if you want to try to connect with TNS. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you do log into the VM and start the listener, you could verify the name of the host that is set by default as part of the VM creation by querying the status of the running listener: Why do you want to go to the portal instead of starting the listener, (and if you’ve started the listener, why do you want to shut it back down and go to the portal)? Using the documentation and performing the steps to create the VM, but stopping at the “Create the Database” step, (no logging into the VM, su over to the Oracle user and starting the listener.) Instead, lets log into the Azure Portal and go to the VM you’ve just created. There are a couple of additional steps that either an Oracle DBA without Azure experience may not know or an Azure specialist without Oracle experience might miss that I’m going to document to make it easier, which can result in a chicken before the egg challenge that we’ll take on in this blog post. This requires a running Oracle listener to listen for incoming connections, then connecting to information stored in the sqlnet.ora and the tnsnames.ora files. This information, for Oracle DBAs, is often gathered from a running database server executing the following command: ps -ef | grep pmonįor the standard database user, accessing an Oracle database in a standard capacity, the connection is performed via TNS, (Transparent Network Substrate). It bypasses the need for a connection string, only requiring the SID to be set at the environment level: export ORACLE_SID= This is done by the following command, using SQL Plus, (or similar): sqlplus / as sysdba I Bequeath to YouĪll instructions provided by the Microsoft documentation show how to connect to the database using a bequeath, (BEQ) connection. I just have some enhancements I’d like to make to it, hoping to help it move up one level. Microsoft has done a great job of documenting how to create a VM with the appropriate VM image and Oracle version, then how to log in, startup the listener and create the database. ![]() ![]() ![]() GetRandomValues() function in Javascript,īrowser and computer have not been compromised or otherwise tampered with. Passwords are generated within your browser and do not leave it (unless you copy them out yourself).įAQ: Are these dice rolls cryptographically secure? "I can't believe you're sending passwords over the Internet!" Chill. 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Struggle and triumph, are palpable and plainly articulated in his music, and it makes the best of Dreams and Nightmares (including "In God We Trust" and "Believe It") feel eminently vital. Sneering talking heads and confused elitists use that struggle as a weapon against the music: How can this music, and these artists, be taken seriously when they brag about throwing money at strippers? The genius of Meek's music is that he embodies, fleshes out, and answers the rapper's dilemma. Rap is often about contradiction, of wanting to stay humble and true while still stunting. It's a track that best distills Meek's singularity hurt oozes from his voice and words, illustrating rap's literal and spiritual roots. On the opening title track, he raps unabated for nearly four minutes, tracing lines from his come-up in Philly to strip clubs in Miami and back, over a beat that morphs into menace halfway through. 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