Gran Dio! Deh, tu proteggi ... Giusto Dio, che umile adoro ... Ah, d'amore in tal momento from Rossini's Tancredi, sung by Mariella Devia.
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Gran Dio! Deh, tu proteggi ... Giusto Dio, che umile adoro ... Ah, d'amore in tal momento from Rossini's Tancredi, sung by Mariella Devia.
Parents had Food Network on, and now La Gazza Ladra overture is stuck in my head 😭
How Mozart, Rossini and later composers discovered that music could portray several minds at once, transforming opera and musical theatre.
Some music refuses to stay in the background.
A few weeks ago I put on Rossini's The Barber of Seville while working, only to find myself abandoning the computer altogether as the Act I finale gathered irresistible momentum. That led me to wonder where this remarkable kind of musical writing came from.
The answer took me from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro to Rossini, Verdi, Offenbach, Johann Strauss, Gilbert and Sullivan and, eventually, West Side Story. Along the way I realised that opera had achieved something no other dramatic art quite can: allowing several people to inhabit different emotional worlds simultaneously, while letting us hear every one of them.
That's the subject of this week's Pushing the Wave.
Questo cor ti giura amore from Rossini's Demetrio e Polibio, sung by Jessica Pratt and Cecilia Molinari.
I love this recording.
Run time is anywhere from 3 to 4½ hours, depending on how many of the ensemble numbers I repeat.
And Juan Diego Flores…
https://embed.music.apple.com/us/album/rossini-matilde-di-shabran/1452503598
Rosina sings "Una voce poco fa" as a dance routine with gay toreadors.
So much dancing on furniture.
The toreadors have joined the military?
I may need to save Act 2 for tomorrow so I can truly appreciate the batshit crazy.
Currently watching the Warsaw Chamber Opera production of Barber of Seville on Opera Vision. Completely cracked. Passable singing. Entirely entertaining.
which composer did more for the genre of “no thoughts head empty” bel canto comedies
gioachino rossini
gaetano donizetti
