To: "'VOCALIST'" <vocalist>
Subject: RE: transposition in opera
Date sent: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 12:08:49 +0100
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

>Manuel
>Garcia, father of Malibran, Viardot and Garcia II, was a tenor who used to
>sing Don Giovanni.

True, but he wrecked his voice, and Stendahl said he was bl**dy awful. And
Mozart's views on this transposition are not recorded.

I think you're point is good though. Sometimes transposition matters,
sometimes it doesn't. I don't mind it at all in Handel, but I do in Verdi.

At least I am consistent in that I am inconsistent!

Regards / vriendelijke groeten

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