> > << Comment: I agree with no ornamentation in Mozart because he wrote > it > perfectly, so why change genius? It drives me crazy to hear cadenzas > that Mozart didn't write on fermatas in his arias... aargh!!! >> > > But isn't the fermata traditionally supposed to be an indication of > ornamentation to be determined by the singer? I disagree with you.
You only write to me when you disagree with me ;-)
> I have a > really wild cadenza that was written for me at the fermata in > "Smanie". I > resisted it at first (the director saw the whole aria as a mini-mad > scene and > the cadenza is a rather tongue-in-cheek Lucia-like moment - yes, I > know, > years too early, but so what?) but now that I've performed it, it > doesn't > feel right just to sit on the fermata and start back up.
I guess it is a matter of taste and what the conductor will let you get away with. I don't think it is stylistically correct and I like Mozart as is, but, more power to you.
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