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 Re: Does there exist a fundamental difference between plaing in an opera orchestra a
Author: kdk ★2017
Date:   2019-05-20 02:33

One difference (certainly not the only one) is that in an opera pit there are a lot of surprises caused by singers' inconsistency. I have no experience in the pit of a major company, but often the singers in local companies, in their expectation that everyone will just follow them no matter what, lose track of the written notation and do things that can be unpredictable. So there's more need for the orchestra players to be flexible when things go wrong between singer and score. With orchestral music a good orchestra knows by the dress rehearsal how everything fits and can trust more that what they see on the page and rehearsed is what they're going to play.

Another obvious difference, already mentioned, is between the acoustic of a hall and the acoustic of a relatively small, usually cramped pit surrounded by walls. What you hear is probably not what gets to the audience.

Karl
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