He's clearly not playing the guitar on stage. You can see on how little his right hand moves and how little he cares. But he clearly knows something about playing the guitar since he's doing logical stuff with his hands.
Classical guitarists generally don't move their right hands very much except when they're strumming--that would be inefficient. They also don't make a lot of extraneous movements while they're playing. And his movements are too "logical" for him not to be playing. Notice how how his right hand wiggles when there's a high note with vibrato in the guitar; no one who was faking it would bother to do that.
I understand your point of view but a couple of things make me doubt that he is actually playing.
1 - At the beginning you can hear a guitar as well but it's obviously not Mattei playing because he's not on stage (at least i suppose ?) so there must be a guitarist or smt in the pit so why bother have him actually play on stage ?
2 - I'm not a guitar specialist but wiggling your hand on the guitar is useless, unlike for the violin eg ?
Just because there's a guitarist for the pit playing for "Ecco ridente in cielo" doesn't mean that Mattei isn't playing here. The reason for having Mattei play is communication--it's much easier to accompany someone if you can see each other. And no, wiggling your hand on a guitar is not useless; that's how you make vibrato. As for a mike, the singers aren't visibly miked either!
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wazer7693 2 months ago
It looks like Peter Mattei really is playing the guitar. I wonder how many baritones learn classical guitar, and is it in hopes of doing this role?
BethDiane 1 year ago 2
@BethDiane my school performed the marriage of figaro
the lute part was performed in the pit
perhaps good synch?
gokudabomb1 1 year ago
@BethDiane
He's clearly not playing the guitar on stage. You can see on how little his right hand moves and how little he cares. But he clearly knows something about playing the guitar since he's doing logical stuff with his hands.
pSAurOnq 11 months ago
@pSAurOnq
Classical guitarists generally don't move their right hands very much except when they're strumming--that would be inefficient. They also don't make a lot of extraneous movements while they're playing. And his movements are too "logical" for him not to be playing. Notice how how his right hand wiggles when there's a high note with vibrato in the guitar; no one who was faking it would bother to do that.
BethDiane 11 months ago
@BethDiane
I understand your point of view but a couple of things make me doubt that he is actually playing.
1 - At the beginning you can hear a guitar as well but it's obviously not Mattei playing because he's not on stage (at least i suppose ?) so there must be a guitarist or smt in the pit so why bother have him actually play on stage ?
2 - I'm not a guitar specialist but wiggling your hand on the guitar is useless, unlike for the violin eg ?
3 - I don't see any mike ?
But you may be right !
pSAurOnq 11 months ago
@pSAurOnq
Just because there's a guitarist for the pit playing for "Ecco ridente in cielo" doesn't mean that Mattei isn't playing here. The reason for having Mattei play is communication--it's much easier to accompany someone if you can see each other. And no, wiggling your hand on a guitar is not useless; that's how you make vibrato. As for a mike, the singers aren't visibly miked either!
BethDiane 11 months ago