(no subject)
Jul. 28th, 2006 01:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
honoumikoSo I've been listening to bits and pieces of Scotto's Butterfly.... INTERESTING!! Really nice takes on it. She gets a lot of the Japaneseness, too, but I still think Callas gets that aspect of it better. But her last aria?? It weeps, it sounds helpless rather than full of hysterics (like Callas). I still don't know if I would play it helplessly sobbing or hysterically crying should I get the chance to play the role, but I think I'd just sing what comes out.
And I'm listening to the last few parts of it where Pinkerton is screaming "BUTTERFLY BUTTERFLY" and the ORCHESTRA has a totally different take on it, too. I don't know if I like it. It sounds Japanese as hell but it sounds more joyful because it's quicker, and it makes it sound like the emperor is making a grand entrance or something, instead of a poor eighteen year old girl who just committed seppuku... nevertheless, it still gave me chills.
And I was surprised at Scotto's vocal color in it too, I always thought of her to be too dark-sounding to play Butterfly, but when you hear that last aria, you hear a young girl in tears, and it's great.
Still, I want to achieve that resonance that you hear in a lot of classical-ish style Japanese traditional songs (If anyone wants to know, I have an mp3... and for an idea, the woman sounds like Bidu Sayao, oddly enough) without abandoning the heart of opera itself. I will MAKE it possible.
So goes my futile-at-the-moment character analysis. XD
Oh yeah and there's this Freni album and the online description of the last aria and it says "con amor muore" and I'm like... WTF!?
edit: I forgot that I got that mp3 off of a website. Here it is. http://www.escuela-wuchi.com/relajacion/sonidos/Samurai%20song.mp3
Plus if anyone has any idea what the HECK that is, please tell me, because I love it.
And I'm listening to the last few parts of it where Pinkerton is screaming "BUTTERFLY BUTTERFLY" and the ORCHESTRA has a totally different take on it, too. I don't know if I like it. It sounds Japanese as hell but it sounds more joyful because it's quicker, and it makes it sound like the emperor is making a grand entrance or something, instead of a poor eighteen year old girl who just committed seppuku... nevertheless, it still gave me chills.
And I was surprised at Scotto's vocal color in it too, I always thought of her to be too dark-sounding to play Butterfly, but when you hear that last aria, you hear a young girl in tears, and it's great.
Still, I want to achieve that resonance that you hear in a lot of classical-ish style Japanese traditional songs (If anyone wants to know, I have an mp3... and for an idea, the woman sounds like Bidu Sayao, oddly enough) without abandoning the heart of opera itself. I will MAKE it possible.
So goes my futile-at-the-moment character analysis. XD
Oh yeah and there's this Freni album and the online description of the last aria and it says "con amor muore" and I'm like... WTF!?
edit: I forgot that I got that mp3 off of a website. Here it is. http://www.escuela-wuchi.com/relajacion/sonidos/Samurai%20song.mp3
Plus if anyone has any idea what the HECK that is, please tell me, because I love it.
