Donizetti Opera Is Not For The Faint Of Heart
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As for the singing they are doing, Fabiano says that Donizetti's opera is not for the timid. Particularly for Gutierrez, who is expected to add all sorts of colour to the performance, but nobody gets off easy in the score. The work is a perfect example of the huge innovations taking place in opera from the early to late 1800s and distinct in its overall heaviness.
"It's a unique period of opera composition where you can really hear the new approaches to using the orchestra in previously unheard ways compared to Mozart and Salieri's operas. Lucia is the most paramount example of this, too, as Donizetti takes a lot of chances and interesting twists in it that he doesn't do in his other somewhat more formulaic work."
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