Rossini- The Barber of Seville.4

ROSSINI- IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA

METROPOLITAN OPERA- 2007
CONDUCTOR- Maurizio Benini
DIRECTOR- Gary Halvorson
PRODUCER- Bartlett Sher

ROSINA- Joyce DiDonato
DR. BARTOLO- John Del Carlo
COUNT ALMAVIVA- Juan Diego Florez
FIGARO- Peter Mattei
FIORELLO- Brain Davis
DON BASILIO- John Relyea
BERTA- Claudia White
AMBROGIO- Rob Besserer

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Opera
• Rossini
• Il Barbiere di Siviglia
• Barber of Seville
• El Barbero de Sevilla
• Le Barbier de Séville
• Der Barbier von Sevilla

[wazer7693]

i am in love with Opera

mi piace moltissimo

[BethDiane]

@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!

[pSAurOnq]

@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 !

[BethDiane]

@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.

[pSAurOnq]

@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.

[gokudabomb1]

@BethDiane my school performed the marriage of figaro

the lute part was performed in the pit

perhaps good synch?

[BethDiane]

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?