Gesture as a powerful tool for enhancing the effect of the vocal delivery The conductor and the singer agree on path between.) Sometimes the composer writes the first note of the phrase and the endnote. The introduction of a wide variety of graces and divisions into both arias and recitatives (This is where the performers add their interpretations to the scored music.
Messa di voce as the principal source of expression (increasing the volume of the note without changing it in any other way)įrequent alteration of tempo through rhythmic rubato - the quickening and slowing of the tempo, usually at the discretion of the singer or the conductor Think Eminem and Rhianna.Ī liberal application of more than one type of portamento (increasing or decreasing the pitch from one syllable to the next without releasing - and using speed and vibrato) Throughout, there are sequences where the vocal lead is singing melodically and the second voice is simultaneously staccato, as though whispering into the ear. Matching register and tonal quality of the voice to the emotional content of the wordsĪ highly articulated manner of phrasing based on the insertion of grammatical and rhetorical pausesĪ delivery varied by several types of legato and staccato (this is one of my favorite aspects of The Elixer of Love. Prosodic singing - the musical phrase matches the grammatic phrase Short video preview of the Washington National Opera production of The Elixir of Love.Ĭourtesy of Wikipedia, Italian bel canto operas are characterized by: Lelisir damore (The Elixir of Love), Act I: Quanto e bella, quanto e cara Gaetano Donizetti, Manlio Rocchi, Rome Lyric Opera Orchestra, Alberico Vitalini. The School of Music’s last Elixir of Love from manyyears ago was transported to the Wild West. A striped canvas roof shelters the large patio set with airy, white metal chairs and tables. In this production Adina (Ailyn Prez) owns the chic, beachside Hotel Adina. For more information on how the conductor of the Lyric, Enrique Mazzola, and the singers work together in a bel canto performance, here’s Chris Jones’s review from the Chicago Tribune. Right here at Krannert Center we have seen The Marriage of Figaro updated to the Spanish Civil War with Count Almaviva portrayed, questionably in my opinion, as a Fascist officer. Elixir of Love had its premiere in 1832, but Lyric’s version, first seen at England’s Opera North,dispenses with both happy peasants and aristocratic periodflourishes.
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