Tagged with farinelli - Personal View Talks http://personal-view.com/talks/discussions/tagged/farinelli/feed.rss Tue, 05 Nov 24 12:27:17 +0000 Tagged with farinelli - Personal View Talks en-CA Night at the opera http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/10309/night-at-the-opera Sun, 04 May 2014 11:49:04 +0000 DrDave 10309@/talks/discussions A Handel aria for your listening enjoyment. This aria, Lascia ch'io pianga, was featured in the movie Farinelli.

It's sometimes fun to do a remake of a big Hollywood costume piece--just five minutes of one. All of the scores of Handel's music are now public domain, as they were printed in the 19th century.

Here is the movie version: The movie has an interesting anachronism, which is that the orchestra is conducted--in Handel's time the music flow was directed by the playing of the keyboard instrument, giving a more sinuous musical flow. Modern conductors came into view around 1820, more than 100 years after the opera was composed.

Would have been nice to rent out a baroque style opera house for a day, but that would have been expensive :)

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