So I watched Phantom of the Opera the other day, and after thinking about it for some time, I actually really enjoyed it. It was directed by Joel Shumacher, and is an adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Weber's 1986 Musical. It stars Emmy Rossum, Gerard Butler, and Patrick Wilson who all light up the screen with some amazing musical scores. Emmy Rossum was downright gorgeous playing the part, and it makes me wonder why she hasn't had any other success recently. The story consists of a woman who gets caught up in a love triangle between a prince and the phantom of the opera and she must choose one. The movie is full of powerful music, sets, and choreography. I would put it in a category above typical musicals such as
West Side Story or
Chicago, and put it with the masterful likes of Amadeus.
So I've began to see Opera in a new light and have come to really appreciate it over the past few days. I've always enjoyed Classical music, yet Opera is a whole different thing where dialouge is sung in extremely dramatic fashion. It is sung in duets, trios, quartets, and so forth all in the backdrop of beautiful classical music. I remember the first time I really experienced an opera was while watching Amadeus. It's beautiful music yet at the same time it can drag on back and forth, up and down, overly dramatic. This is one thing that comes with the Opera. It's a story through music, yet far more sophisticated than those noisy Broadway musicals. It's music at it's highest potential, vocalization at it's ultimate peak, and I think for this reason it should be appreciated. It's probably safe to say that your best singers in the world are Opera singers. Consider the list of masterful composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, and Stravinsky, all of which were operatic geniuses. I would definetely like to one day experience a show perhaps maybe in Vienna or Prague. Here are some pieces I would want to see:
- Mozart: "The Marriage of Figaro", "Don Giovanni", "The Magic Flute"
- Richard Wagner: "The Rhinegold", "The Valkyrie", "Siegfried", "The Twilight of the Gods"
- Leo Delibes: "Lakme Flower Duet"
- Giacomo Puccini: "Turandot: Nessun dorma", "Madame Butterfly"
- Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman: "Con te Partio"
So I watched Phantom of the Opera the other day, and after thinking about it for some time, I actually really enjoyed it. It was directed by Joel Shumacher, and is an adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Weber's 1986 Musical. It stars Emmy Rossum, Gerard Butler, and Patrick Wilson who all light up the screen with some amazing musical scores. Emmy Rossum was downright gorgeous playing the part, and it makes me wonder why she hasn't had any other success recently. The story consists of a woman who gets caught up in a love triangle between a prince and the phantom of the opera and she must choose one. The movie is full of powerful music, sets, and choreography. I would put it in a category above typical musicals such as West Side Story or Chicago, and put it with the masterful likes of Amadeus.
So I've began to see Opera in a new light and have come to really appreciate it over the past few days. I've always enjoyed Classical music, yet Opera is a whole different thing where dialouge is sung in extremely dramatic fashion. It is sung in duets, trios, quartets, and so forth all in the backdrop of beautiful classical music. I remember the first time I really experienced an opera was while watching Amadeus. It's beautiful music yet at the same time it can drag on back and forth, up and down, overly dramatic. This is one thing that comes with the Opera. It's a story through music, yet far more sophisticated than those noisy Broadway musicals. It's music at it's highest potential, vocalization at it's ultimate peak, and I think for this reason it should be appreciated. It's probably safe to say that your best singers in the world are Opera singers. Consider the list of masterful composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, and Stravinsky, all of which were operatic geniuses. I would definetely like to one day experience a show perhaps maybe in Vienna or Prague. Here are some pieces I would want to see:
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