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2017-04-14 10:58:05
An Italian economist breaks my fear of late Beethoven
[…] options on which to rely. I don’t step into that first rehearsal with one fingering option which has been drilled with a metronome. I have a handful of options – colors, fingerings, tempi, bowings. I read about the composer at that particular point in his life, the specific piece, the geopolitical climate during which it was written. I utilize the 80/20 rule – also known as the “the law of the vital few” or the “Pareto Principal”, after the Italian economist who discovered it in 1896. This is, actually, the way I have survived this past year in almost all ways. Vilfredo Pareto, an avid gardener, observed that 80% of his peas grew from only 20% of his pea pods. He then threw his net wider, and, as an economist, discovered that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population. This ratio is prevalent […]
2015-10-12 17:00:07
Lost soul
[…] roles often cultivate that edge, called “squillo” in Italian. It helps them get their voices out into a big theater—and the Academy of Music, even if about half the size of the Met, is vast enough. Squillo allows a lighter soprano some thrust and bite in the more dramatic eruptions this role requires. Oropesa, though, has kept a sweet and limpid sound. She reminded me from time to time of the wonderful but forgotten Graziella Pareto, a very famous “coloratura” Violetta, who Thomas Beecham remarked was the best he had ever seen. Oropesa’s tone has a built in caress, a timbre that has a penumbra of vulnerability that draws one’s ear rather than attacking it—something that Marilyn Horne once said was the mark of a great singer. Yes, Oropesa managed a very good but not excessively showy “Sempre libera” in act one and even ended it with a clean, easy […]
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