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operaplot #operaplot from Twitter -What's opera all about?

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Uploaded by on May 5, 2009

On Twitter there was a contest where you had to capture the plot of an opera in 140 characters.
You could win all kind op (very nice) opera house prizes and Danielle de Niese was the judge.
From the result, a word cloud was created, and it gives a very nice overview of what opera plots are all about...
The sound is from my 1955 copy of a cetra LP with Franco Corelli singing Esultate! from Verdi's Othello.
As far as I know it's one of the last times he sang Othello. He feared that opera...

The JPG was snapshotted from this website:
http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/wordle-tag-cloud-f...

greetings,

http://twitter.com/otterhouse

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  • Some overstatement that Corelli "feared" Otello:-) The tessitura was concentrated in a slightly lower range and Corelli's strength was the higher register which was powerful as well as stunningly beautiful--a gamble to risk it on Otello. The opinion of his mentor Lauri Volpi may have carried weight as he felt the role might compromise Corelli's top range as his was a "structured" rather than a inborn top that Corelli worked to develop and maintain. Corelli is more a natural Radames or Calaf.

  • Seems like operas are all about human emotions being taken to the extreme. :-D

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