Wagner wrote some great choruses and in the tradition of grand opera I will go with Hagen's call.
Opera choruses - your favorites! Post it here
It struck me the fact that when we speak and think about opera we first think about arias, duos, trios, etc, about our dearest soloist singers, primas, etc but CORO is such an indispensable part of any opera at least traditional opera ( well, now no talk about singspiel and other different types
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and I find them wonderful, in many operas they play different functions from commenting the action to being a moving engine of very same action. It's very interesting if we think about chorus as a character of opera - non-personified character ( not in a sense of how many characters are in a chorus, but in a pure sense of chorus itself as being a character of an opera as such ).
well, your comments and your favorite choruses from operas or may be operas you are listening now are welcome
)and I find them wonderful, in many operas they play different functions from commenting the action to being a moving engine of very same action. It's very interesting if we think about chorus as a character of opera - non-personified character ( not in a sense of how many characters are in a chorus, but in a pure sense of chorus itself as being a character of an opera as such ).
well, your comments and your favorite choruses from operas or may be operas you are listening now are welcome
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yeah, absolutely agree about Verdi´s choruses and this scene is sarcastic indeed
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One more from Charpentier. oeps ! this is not an opera,sorry
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