June 18, 2025Jun 18 Hi! I’ve decided to compose a French short opera on an excerpt from Tartuffe. I’ve included my excerpt with my plan for formatting( recitative,aria,etc). This is my first venture into operatic writing and I would like to receive some feedback about what I chose to be recitatives and arias and duets and trios. This is a French opera but I used the English translation for convenience(I don’t speak French. Side note, the final trio has only two characters in the play script but I plan to include interjections of the third character a.k.a Marianne(Context in the script). Thanks! Edited June 18, 2025Jun 18 by Sonata_5
June 18, 2025Jun 18 Honestly it's hard to give feedback just base on the lyrics for me. For duets or solo it just depend on the characters on stage? For recitative, I personally find it a bit old fashioned to include it in an opera. But I have no experience on writing an opera myself so it's just personal. Henry
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