Art and Tech

The Broadway show that I enjoyed looking at was West Side Story. I've never seen the play, but my senior year of high school our marching band show was west side. So I have a lot of fun memories with the music. The concept as well is a classic, star-cross lovers. From the scene, I watched the song was very lovely and even though the stage was small and there were no props, my eyes were always glued to the actors.

Megan George 2/8/19 Opera Paper             I Capuleti & Montecchi is an opera about the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet- sort of. Written in Italy in 1830 by Vincenzo Bellini, it tells the same general story as the legendary Shakespeare play. It is not the same, though; rather, the particular form of the story the opera tells is a very significant choice. It gives insight into the state of Italy when the show premiered and shows off its impact. Throughout my research, I discovered the origins of this play are a bit complex; it was made with a script written for another opera called Guilietta e Romeo , which was based on a play of the same name made in 1818, which drew from Renaissance works translated into French, then back into Italian. Which means it is hardly connected at all to the Shakespeare play. The basic story seems to come from the same source, but Shakespeare lived in England. Therefore, Italy didn’t see his play for centuries, and so the opera became the more know

To start I love the stop motion animation it really added to the mise en scene of the whole thing and have done stop motion before I know how much work had to go into it. Though out the animation I notice some cool things, like the butterfly I knew at first watch, had to mean something important, at first I thought her heart, but at the end, I realized it was her soul. I think they portrayed it beautiful and very creative. I also thought that when the mom and daughter are 'flying' around I interpreted as there love for each other, the only other thing that flew was the butterfly. The only true loves in the animation child and self. The sailor had a lot of interesting connections, the hat was one of the girls most prized possession, but lets it fly away when she has her daughter. The daughter and mothers love for each other are shown there the cord that connects them, and the sailor just rips them apart. This, of course, leads to the strangest yet most power parts