The Marriage of Figaro by Brittany

This performance was one that I really wasn’t too sure about going into it. I’m not really a big opera person myself. However I found this performance to rank up there with Aida and Romeo and Juliet. This “opera” was more than what most people would or do expect. It was a comedy, an opera, and multiple love stories all at once, and like a story it even contained a lesson at the end. I believe it was able to reach out to more people do to its ability to show case all of these genres. Not to mention they did it in a different language.

In reading our summery about the performance it had a short description on what is kind of going on throughout the tale. And like it said after reading the summery I was able to enjoy the opera so much more, and I didn’t have to always look at the subtitles, because I had an idea of what they were trying to get across. However having to look at the subtitles when I did was a pain but if I was given the choice of subtitles or performing in English I’d pick the subtitles some things if not most would have been lost along the way otherwise.

After the show when we were able to talk to them, someone had asked how they project their voices to fill such a large space. They told us that they use the same amount of air as we do when we breathe. It’s hard to believe that that’s even possible and that’s before you take in to account the different pitches they were all able to range in. it must take so many years to really understand your voice that well. You can tell that for them to work on this for so long that it something they truly enjoy. Which is able to be reflected in the performance, and kept you want more like this opera has in the past. However, we weren’t allowed all of the encores.