Opera

While I was reading the assigned reading for Tuesday I was reminded of a certain opera. Upon searching Youtube I found that the following video.





Since this is my first time directly embedding a video in a blog and the code does not look right, I made the word video hyperlink to the video as well. The video is from the opera "The Barber of Seville" and is the song "Largo al factotum (della città)!". During the performance you can clearly hear a wide variety of different timbres created by the different chordophones and aerophones. This has a Heterophony of the actor singing the with the orchestra providing support for his singing. The tempo is somewhat hastened for the majority of the performance. There is one portion during which the speed of the song slows down considerably. The performer singing uses some amount of vibrato throughout the performance to further ornament the singing. It is quite impressive how the vocalist continues to sing with such volume through the duration of the piece even though he continually moves across the stage. If any find this piece somewhat nostalgic but can not imagine why, such as having never attended an opera before, perhaps this link will remind them of their childhood.