Differences and Similarities Between the Video and the Live Opera performance / The Barber of Seville
...he opera video. Also, we had to practice etiquette when we went to the live opera. For example, if we went to the restroom during the opera, we couldn¡¯t come back into the auditorium. In contrast, we could go to the restroom anytime, and we could do anything we wanted when we saw the opera video. The biggest difference is about the mood. We felt more excited in the live opera because we heard the real voices of opera singers and saw the opera alive. On the other hand, it was hard to get into the mood of the opera video. Scenery shows us the period when the story is happening. In this opera, The Barber of Seville, there was similar scenery between the live performance and the opera video. They both had a balcony because the balcony was an important place for the main characters, Rosina and the Count. The mood of Dr. Bartolo¡¯s house was very similar too. We could know how the architecture looked like at that time through the house and building. The set was moving in the video opera, whereas it was non-moving in the live opera. The scenery of the opera video was bigger and more active than the live opera¡¯s scenery. That¡¯s why the opera video¡¯s scenery was more interesting than the live opera to me. I think the music is the most similar thing between the live opera and the opera video. Those two operas were based on the same composer, and the orchestra played music with the same musical score. I remember th...