Okay, I like Cosi now...
Jun. 2nd, 2006 08:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
khiemtranI finally "got" Così fan tutte after hearing just the music. Previously, I'd only seen it on television and I'd always lost interest a short way in. I think in part I was distracted by the subtitles and what I considered a trivial storyline.
Listening to just the music though, my opinion started to change. There is something subtle and compelling about the way the music changes and the way it tells the story in parallel the whole way through. There's a complexity of palette that belies the apparent simplicity of the plot, the same sort of brain candy that you can find in a lot of Mozart and which I aim for in my writing. Any hack can do sadness or happiness or anger. It takes a special touch to be able to do just this happiness, the happiness you feel when you're among friends and you're retelling an old story and everyone joins at the punchlines, or the sadness you feel when you've been crushed one time too many and you still have to put on that smiling face but it's cracking just a little, and then you know you have to carry on, and you're over the worst of it but the pain is there.
Listening to just the music though, my opinion started to change. There is something subtle and compelling about the way the music changes and the way it tells the story in parallel the whole way through. There's a complexity of palette that belies the apparent simplicity of the plot, the same sort of brain candy that you can find in a lot of Mozart and which I aim for in my writing. Any hack can do sadness or happiness or anger. It takes a special touch to be able to do just this happiness, the happiness you feel when you're among friends and you're retelling an old story and everyone joins at the punchlines, or the sadness you feel when you've been crushed one time too many and you still have to put on that smiling face but it's cracking just a little, and then you know you have to carry on, and you're over the worst of it but the pain is there.
