| re: Disagree (spoilers) |
| Posted by: Chromolume 11:44 pm EDT 05/29/23 |
| In reply to: re: Disagree (spoilers) - singleticket 08:43 pm EDT 05/29/23 |
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But to respond to some of the things above, both Don Ottavio and Masetto are packing guns in Da Ponte's libretto (pistols and a musket). So the substitution of drawn guns for swordplay isn't that far of a distance from one era to another.
But to Stan's apt point, the MUSIC is not gunfight music. It's more active and sweeping, like a sword duel would be. The music is suggesting certain kinds of action that a gunfight doesn't readily fulfill. |
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