This made me chuckle
https://www.ebay.com/itm/12506474847...Cclp%3A2047675
This made me chuckle
https://www.ebay.com/itm/12506474847...Cclp%3A2047675
"To be obsessed with the destination is to remove the focus from where you are." Philip Toshio Sudo, Zen Guitar
Don Giovanni, maybe? But that f-hole mandolin is all wrong.
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..... but not as wrong as the false facial hair!
Men in tights... No thank you!
Is that a Stradolin?!?!?
I was wondering that myself. Kinda looks it, doesn't it?
"To be obsessed with the destination is to remove the focus from where you are." Philip Toshio Sudo, Zen Guitar
Then there's his technique. He's not really making a chord, and he's not really playing it well. A bit of coaching might help.
Any idea which opera this is from?
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
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That's probably the serenade scene from Mozart's Don Giovanni. The aria is titled "Deh vieni alla finestra"-- in English, "come to the window."
For those of you who know the old Don Juan story, Giovanni's [Juan in the original Spanish story] purpose in life was to seduce every woman he could. The opera scene portrays an example of him trying to accomplish this by a serenade under her window.
There is a prominent mandolin part in the aria. I played the mandolin part in the orchestra here many years ago. They needed a mandolin on stage for a prop, so I lent them my Strad-o-lin. So I wonder if this picture was from that performance?? I'm trying to remember what mandolin I played in the pit. It would either have been an old F-4, or possibly a Lyon & Healy B that I no longer own.
Last edited by rcc56; Oct-31-2022 at 11:25pm.
Aha. That all makes sense. The character depicted is clearly not playing, just using the mandolin as a prop - indeed, he looks like he's posing for a publicity still.
Here is a performance with the singer acting like he's playing an instrument, rather like a lute, while the mandolin actually being played is hidden from view, preumably in the orchestra pit.
Here's a concert performance, in which you can see the player from time to time.
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Glad it wasn't an F-5 they used on stage.
It would be cool if this photo was from your production, rcc. Of course as a pit player you never get a look at what's happening on stage. When I played on a run of D.G. in the eighties in Vancouver, I was told later that the singer on stage was holding a big paper maché mandolin-shaped thingy. I guess no one thought of using a real mandolin.
(Off topic really, but maybe an expert here can tell us what sort of mandolin would actually be authentic for a Mozart opera.)
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