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#what does heggie do? other than write listenable non-starters to be performed in conservatories and regional theaters
reggiecristal
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#reggie speaks
#like at this point we’re just beating the art form’s corpse
#i get wanting to work with a living composer
#but the vocal culture of opera is maintained by its core repertoire
#it’s not possible to cultivate an operatic voice without the hand of bel canto—the notion of it and the repertoire associated with it
#guiding and building voices so that the singer is empowered to tackle any rep they choose
#if you can’t put butts in seats for classics maybe you’re not promoting them well
#but pivoting towards contemporary works b/c your throwing everything behind them worked (shocker) risks abandoning the form’s identity
#and effectively delegates singers to the role of pawns—few contemporary works showcase voices to their fullest extent
#‘the hours’ sold well b/c it was headed by three divas—actual stars w/ experience and renown coming together like never before
#but renee and joyce wouldn’t be shit w/o mozart strauss and rossini
#those composers will be the ones to appear in their obituaries
#they’re what made them household names and it was possible b/c the roles showcase the better parts of their vocalism
#what does heggie do? other than write listenable non-starters to be performed in conservatories and regional theaters
#this move is less about the art form’s evolution and more about how it can be twisted for profit
#its spirit being marred matters not if you rig the grammys so you can stack them for better marketing advantage
#that your singers have no power and burn out and discarded in less than a decade matters not
#and this also absolves the Met of having to fill dramatic roles which can barely be sung anymore
#simply write music for smaller voices
#and never question why dramatic ones aren’t emerging or why your lyric voices burn out so quickly
#god i want peter dissolved in a vat of acid
#a record exec being the head of the country’s largest operatic institution was a shit move from the start
#and this’ll be his legacy: killing the traditions that have kept the art form extant for hundreds of years for the benefit of his
#administration and its allies
#how very much like us as a nation and culture
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