Stelle
Proper noun
Meaning
Stelle (plural Stelles)
A surname from German.
Anagrams
Examples
Mario Cavaradossi (modelled on tenor Giancarlo Monsalve ) singing "E lucevan le stelle" in a painting by Riccardo Manci This is a farewell to love and life, "an anguished lament and grief built around the words 'muoio disperato' (I die in despair)".
Newman, p. 150 In the final bars, as Tosca evades Spoletta and leaps to her death, the theme of "E lucevan le stelle" is played tutta forze (as loudly as possible).
In 1718 Swedenborg wrote (but did not publish) a manuscript: "En ny rekenkonst som om vexlas wid Thalet 8 i stelle then wanliga wid Thalet 10" ("A new arithmetic (or art of counting) which changes at the Number 8 instead of the usual at the Number 10").
Ping, Pong, and Pang appear and offer the Prince women and riches if he will only give up Turandot (Tu che guardi le stelle), but he refuses.
However, in the score they are sung as "Tramontate, stelle!
The last word in each of the three canticas is stelle ("stars").