Opera once again
Sep. 18th, 2009 04:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
almaviva90I thought tenors were high...but compared to countertenors...no bloody competition.
Had to listen to 'Vivi tiranno' from Handel's Rodelinda which was sung by a countertenor...and goodness, it sounds like as if it's being sung by a woman. A mezzo-soprano or a contralto to be precise...and it seriously sounds, well, unnatural.
But the strange thing about it? I rather like the aria...whether it sounds unnatural or not, lol. I'm guessing it's because I'm a complete sucker when it comes to baroque-era music which might explain why I rather like Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria despite the ludicrousness of gods and goddesses singing onstage and people being transported on flying chariots during the opera...
Had to listen to 'Vivi tiranno' from Handel's Rodelinda which was sung by a countertenor...and goodness, it sounds like as if it's being sung by a woman. A mezzo-soprano or a contralto to be precise...and it seriously sounds, well, unnatural.
But the strange thing about it? I rather like the aria...whether it sounds unnatural or not, lol. I'm guessing it's because I'm a complete sucker when it comes to baroque-era music which might explain why I rather like Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria despite the ludicrousness of gods and goddesses singing onstage and people being transported on flying chariots during the opera...
