7/21/2019 Final Diction

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L’elisir d’ amore

Quanto e bella, quanto e cara! The frst version I listened to was perormed by

Luciano Pavarotti at the Metropolitan in "#

 The orchestration seems to have been a pit orchestra# The arran$ement o the

instrumentation put the importance on the te%t# &%amples o this is when the sin$eris sin$in$ '(ow she is beautiul, how she is dear the orchestration ta)es on a

cantabile quality* and another e%ample is 'I )now not but to si$h+ the orchestration

uses a si$h moti#

 The second version I listened to was Lawrence rownlee sin$in$ at the Tivoli

-ardens .openha$en in /0#

In this version rownlee ta)es adds more stress and bi$$er lits in between the

words &sse le$$e, studia, impara1# 23he reads, studies, learns14# rownlee also

adds stress to the words 'bella and cara+ 2beautiul and dear4#

5ella crudele Isotta

 The frst version I listened to was perormed by 6athleen attle and chorus in

at the Metropolitan# The orchestration was chamber strin$s when attle would sin$

and then the orchestration would become the ull pit orchestra or the chorus

voices# 7nce a$ain the te%t was $iven the importance and the music eatured many

e%amples o te%t paintin$#

 The second version I listened to was perormed by Lucia 8liberti#