Concert Critiques and Musical Styles

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Concert Critiques and Musical Styles
Concerts are live musical performances up in front of listeners. The presentation may be brought forward by one person, or even by a troupe that is of choral music or even a quartet or a sextet. There are, therefore, different types of performances that can be done, and they are all intended to pass a particular message to the audience. The performance can be comic, and some can be played to pass a particular message to the audience. So, music concerts give the audience the first hand of getting the performers to play live.
One concert I admire to date is The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Mozart. It is a comic opera which was a staged comedy during those days. It is in four acts contrived in 1786 and written in an Italian score by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It first premiered at Burgtheater in Vienna on 1st May 1786. The opera's script is based on a stage play by Beaumarchais, which is basically "The Marriage of Figaro."
The marriage of Figaro is about Figaro, a servant of Count Almaviva, who is about to tie the knot with Susanna, the Countess's maid. So, it is a story of one cheerful couple who want to get married and another miserable and already in marriage. And not acting like so. It begins with Figaro measuring the size of a room for a bed. Nevertheless, Susanna is worried that it is close to the Counts' chamber.
Concert Critiques and Musical Style
Beaumarchais's Marriage of Figaro was at first dismissed in Vienna. The then Emperor stated that the script contained offensive acts. Furthermore, he wanted Mozart to be responsible for the play and the impression it made. Nevertheless, later, Mozart managed to maneuver his ways and came up with an opera version which became a success.
The Mozart Overture brings out various instruments like horns, trumpets, flutes, clarinets. These instruments play a vital role in the play, and one can distinguish like the octets playing, signifying various themes and rhythms of the opera. How the contrivance intertwining back and forth is fascinating too. Another feature in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro is the speed of the music. The tempo that Mozart...