The cabaletta or cavaletta came from the Italian word for ‘grasshopper’. Originally, the cabaletta was a short popular aria with a simple, repetitive rhythm. However, by the nineteenth century the cabaletta had a more specialized meaning; now, it described the final, lively section of an aria or a duet, which followed a ‘smoothly sung’ cantabile ...
, Night’ Anne Trulove’s aria from Act I, Scene 3 of The Rake’s Progress demonstrates her resolve to leave her father and find Tom Rakewell at any cost. The cabaletta that follows, ‘I go, I go to him’, is distinguished by a florid vocal line of stratospheric extremes. A showy, impressive showcase for coloratura soprano, it ...
take part in a duet or even have a short, simple aria to sing alone. The Voice | Singing in the Ring | High Romantic | Opera Techniques | Cabaletta | Early Romantic | Opera ...
its ethereal oboe melody, evokes such transcendent Mozartian moments as the final union of Pamina and Tamino and the Countess’s forgiveness of her errant husband in Figaro. Techniques | Cabaletta | Early Romantic | Opera ...
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