And FigaroFatz bitches about rap: La Boheme review: Decay and decadence in Puccini's panoply of life's diversity
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Subject: And FigaroFatz bitches about rap: La Boheme review: Decay and decadence in Puccini's panoply of life's diversity Mon Jan 05, 2015 6:06 pm
No other composer could capture fateful self-realisation at the peak of a musical phrase better than Puccini. It is as though when Rodolfo rises to the top C to sing "la dolce speranza" in Act 1 of La Boheme, the "sweet hope" of which he sings is born, lived and dies within the moment that the phrase arches and falls.