| re: This gives me hope for a film of THE MOST HAPPY FELLA | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 07:34 pm EST 02/15/21 | |
| In reply to: re: This gives me hope for a film of THE MOST HAPPY FELLA - Michael_Portantiere 02:53 pm EST 02/15/21 | |
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| I'm sorry if my tone seemed harsh. Opera roles are not generally adapted in terms of keys. Some individual arias are. But outside of roles in early operas changed over time in various ways because they were written for castrati, or specific adaptations (by the composers) for alternate voices (Werther and I Puritani come to mind), full roles themselves are not changed. Also, any number of opera purists balk at transpositions, even though they really have no reason to. But most aria transpositions are done because of a particular expected climactic high note (sometimes an interpolated one, as in "Di Quella Pira"), not because the entire aria sits better in the voice. The idea of lowering keys for film is fine - the part of the equation I don't see in your argument is that the voice must fit the new key. The idea that Pav would sing a score in a tessitura lower than he is used to is not at all the same thing as lowering the keys for a singer who sounds ideal in those keys. Chenoweth could do this for The Music Man just fine, because she has that versatility in her lower range. I don't think Pav's voice worked in the same way. And again, the score wouldn't permit him to really take advantage of the brilliant upper register that was his calling card. For someone like Domingo, this might have made more sense. Also, we're talking A LOT of music, not just a handful of songs as in most musicals. I'm sorry to say this, but in this case, your argument really does not make sense. Make of that what you will. I also think that learning a role in fractured English such as Tony might actually be harder, because one would have to learn that specific take on the dialect. Tony's lyrics are not academic in that sense, they are written from the standpoint of an American trying to write pidgin dialect, and it's not necessarily how a true Italian might speak. You're also giving the studio(s) a lot of credit for having "lots of time" for rehearsal/retakes/etc - how much money was going to be spent on this??? |
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