[BRIEF NOTE] Popular Musics
Feb. 22nd, 2005 08:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldThis morning, on CBC Radio 1's program Sounds Like Canada, Kelly Ryan interviewed at length Ottawan expatriates Peter Kiesewalter and Tyley Ross, founders of the East Village Opera Company. This group has gained some recognition for its rephrasing of operas in a modern popular-music format, including Verdi's Rigoletto; Sounds like Canada played a rather bizarrely catchy rock/dance version of "La donna รจ mobile".
Kiesewalter and Ross argued that if Verdi and Mozart were writing music now, they'd be writing in the idioms of modern popular music, that opera was to the 19th century what rock and roll is to the 21st. This makes a certain degree of intuitive sense to me, though I can't comment conclusively on how correct it is. I wonder if I've go to the EVOC's show on the 26th?
Kiesewalter and Ross argued that if Verdi and Mozart were writing music now, they'd be writing in the idioms of modern popular music, that opera was to the 19th century what rock and roll is to the 21st. This makes a certain degree of intuitive sense to me, though I can't comment conclusively on how correct it is. I wonder if I've go to the EVOC's show on the 26th?
