>
> << Comment: I agree with no ornamentation in Mozart because he wrote
> it
> perfectly, so why change genius? It drives me crazy to hear cadenzas
> that Mozart didn't write on fermatas in his arias... aargh!!! >>
>
> But isn't the fermata traditionally supposed to be an indication of
> ornamentation to be determined by the singer? I disagree with you.
You only write to me when you disagree with me ;-)
> I have a
> really wild cadenza that was written for me at the fermata in
> "Smanie". I
> resisted it at first (the director saw the whole aria as a mini-mad
> scene and
> the cadenza is a rather tongue-in-cheek Lucia-like moment - yes, I
> know,
> years too early, but so what?) but now that I've performed it, it
> doesn't
> feel right just to sit on the fermata and start back up.
I guess it is a matter of taste and what the conductor will let you get
away with. I don't think it is stylistically correct and I like Mozart
as is, but, more power to you.
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