Sunday, January 29, 2012

Book 77: The Marriage of Figaro

As soon as you put a classical composer near something I'm in. I really love Mozart because he wrote beautiful music, as I'm sure you all know, but even though I rated this fairly high I was still a little disappointed maybe not by the opera but by what FYP did to it.

The opera itself is quite funny and the music that accompanies it is amazing but in FYP we didn't really talk about that. We talked about the play that the opera was based on which made it a controversial choice for Mozart. My tutorial didn't agree with me that this was a huge step because he did cut out most of the things that would make it seem class-warish but I believe that the fact that he still wrote it was pretty gutsy. Everyone knew what it was about and the social and political implications it has. It reminds me of something like the crucible only different if that makes sense.

Anyways, I enjoyed it. I thought it was fun and really great. I give it an 8 out of 10. You should all go watch Amadeus now and surround yourselves with wonderful classical music.




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