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| oldorange1 Newbie United States Joined 4625 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes | Message 9 of 11 26 January 2012 at 5:51pm | IP Logged |
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RMM.... If you learned Italian through Opera, did you find that the repetitive time you spent on the same Opera made you less interested in actually seeing/enjoying it once you had learned it and knew it? Curious... thanks... m.
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| RMM Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5161 days ago 91 posts - 215 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Italian, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Swedish, Japanese | Message 10 of 11 28 January 2012 at 12:27am | IP Logged |
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No, on the contrary, I think that the time I spent with the recordings and libretti helped make seeing opera live more enjoyable. Opera is a very multi-faceted artform. There is so much to pay attention to when actually seeing an opera (the quality of the singing, conductor, and orchestra, the production/interpretation, the sets, costumes, lighting, plot, acting, etc.) that not having to be glued to the subtitles/surtitles in addition allowed me to appreciate the performances more.
Beyond this, classical music in general, and esp. classical music that also contains a vocal line or multiple vocal lines, is a complex musical form. The more I go over the same music, the more nuances and fresh details that I typically find in it. Many of the operas that I am most familiar with are still among my very favorite operas (Otello, Boheme, Traviata, etc.). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5627 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 11 of 11 28 January 2012 at 2:27pm | IP Logged |
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I love opera, but unfortunately this technique has never worked for me. Even if an opera singer is singing in English, I just can't understand it! I think this is due to their vocal technique. As a singer, you get trained to emphasize vowels and make your consonants more subtle, and this is especially true for opera singers. Runs/trills/coloratura etc. are only produced on vowels, and the consonants end up fading into the background, at least to my ear. Has anyone else had this problem?
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