If you can listen to this, understanding the text - or, even better, if you can attend a performance of the whole opera, and you aren't moved to tears by this scene, I will believe that you have no soul and that your brain, if you have one, is useless. Thank you very much for this video! PS. When I visited Rome five and a half years ago, one of my aims was to visit all three places where this opera takes place. Castel Sant'Angelo is a spectacular place, full of history, and with awesome views of the city.
As someone who's always been more interested in the instrumental side of classical music, I've recently begun looking to get into some opera pieces to begin to understand the vocal side of the genre as well and MAN. This video absolutely just opened me up to all this world has to offer, I'll be checking out this work for sure. Thank you for your beautifully done videos !
This is such a coincidence because I'm reading Clemency Burton-Hill's "Year of Wonder," where you listen to a piece of classical music each day, and this was the piece selected for January 14. Absolutely adored it and have been listening to it on repeat for the past couple of days. Glad to listen to it again with an analysis of the music. Thanks for sharing!
I would much love to see a video from you on any part from La Fanciulla del West, a very underrated opera by the same composer. The orchestration and harmonies of this latter one are utterly fascinating…
I love these analysis. As I come from jazz, I understand the chord symbols in black. But -I ask in all humility-... What do the tinier symbols in green mean? Could you explain these? Thank you a lot😊Wow... Pavarotti at his best!!
I think the chord symbols in green are showing what a typical Phrygian cadence descending to the V would be and the main chord symbols in black show how Puccini approached it. However, I may be wrong.
I always feel like it’s wrong to share separated parts of Puccini’s operas, because they are just to be listened as one whole piece of music. In his arias, there are very often motives that are leitmotives or that we hear through the whole pieces as significative melodies, but absolutely not specific to the aria parts. Of course this doesn’t mean that I’m blaming your video ; not at all, it’s juste a statement. Thank you for the work you have done with the two videos on Puccini’s ravishing and too overlooked genius music.
Yeah but on the other side, this little pieces of cake get people interested in the opera or in the whole music of puccini. Sort of like a film trailer And its great for people who already know the opera to remember it and listen to it again
@Dylonely_9274 The more I wrap my mind around opera, the more I like to listen to the whole of them. It's like a theatre play or a movie, just the actors sing instead of talking.
yes, but consider that the whole channel is dedicated to highlighting musical moments in larger works. So it's not treating opera any different than the ballets, sonatas and symphonies
Puccini is one of the greatest orchestrators of all times.
One of the greatest composers of all time.
If you can listen to this, understanding the text - or, even better, if you can attend a performance of the whole opera, and you aren't moved to tears by this scene, I will believe that you have no soul and that your brain, if you have one, is useless.
Thank you very much for this video!
PS. When I visited Rome five and a half years ago, one of my aims was to visit all three places where this opera takes place. Castel Sant'Angelo is a spectacular place, full of history, and with awesome views of the city.
As someone who's always been more interested in the instrumental side of classical music, I've recently begun looking to get into some opera pieces to begin to understand the vocal side of the genre as well and MAN. This video absolutely just opened me up to all this world has to offer, I'll be checking out this work for sure. Thank you for your beautifully done videos !
Thanks to you! Beautiful comment. MM
This is such a coincidence because I'm reading Clemency Burton-Hill's "Year of Wonder," where you listen to a piece of classical music each day, and this was the piece selected for January 14. Absolutely adored it and have been listening to it on repeat for the past couple of days. Glad to listen to it again with an analysis of the music.
Thanks for sharing!
I would much love to see a video from you on any part from La Fanciulla del West, a very underrated opera by the same composer. The orchestration and harmonies of this latter one are utterly fascinating…
I love these analysis. As I come from jazz, I understand the chord symbols in black. But -I ask in all humility-... What do the tinier symbols in green mean? Could you explain these? Thank you a lot😊Wow... Pavarotti at his best!!
I think the chord symbols in green are showing what a typical Phrygian cadence descending to the V would be and the main chord symbols in black show how Puccini approached it. However, I may be wrong.
Exactly right. The coloured chords illustrate the progression if you interpret the top note of the accompaniment as unresolved appoggiaturas.
The Catholic Church, and the Entire City of Rome, is being burned by Scarpia's forces as the opera ends. This is how villains try to ruin history.
I always feel like it’s wrong to share separated parts of Puccini’s operas, because they are just to be listened as one whole piece of music. In his arias, there are very often motives that are leitmotives or that we hear through the whole pieces as significative melodies, but absolutely not specific to the aria parts.
Of course this doesn’t mean that I’m blaming your video ; not at all, it’s juste a statement. Thank you for the work you have done with the two videos on Puccini’s ravishing and too overlooked genius music.
Yeah but on the other side, this little pieces of cake get people interested in the opera or in the whole music of puccini.
Sort of like a film trailer
And its great for people who already know the opera to remember it and listen to it again
@Dylonely_9274 The more I wrap my mind around opera, the more I like to listen to the whole of them. It's like a theatre play or a movie, just the actors sing instead of talking.
yes, but consider that the whole channel is dedicated to highlighting musical moments in larger works. So it's not treating opera any different than the ballets, sonatas and symphonies
Bring on the hate - puccini is to opera what indian "food" is to good cuisine. S-h-*-t
What
Why, exactly ?