Luciano Pavarotti Opera Vs. Cinderella
Pantomime
Cinderella- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BRMwSIHk6s
Luciano Pavarotti- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRI5F54kc_g
Luciano Pavarotti is a famous Italian opera singer, he eventually became very known for his televised concerts and media appearances for his amazing tone. His career highlights included opera house performances, and celebrity duets.
A pantomime is a type of musical comedy stage production which is designed for entertainment. It is usually performed during the Christmas and new years period, it includes dancing, singing and comedy. It is particularly a form of theatre, in which audience usually sing along to certain parts of the music and shout out phrases to the performers.
The famous opera singer Luciano Pavarotti is entertainment for a lot of people. Whereas other people relax while listening to him which shows his functionalist approach of being useful because he serves the function to relax or entertain people. I think Luciano Pavarotti is valued because he is a inspiration for a lot of people especially for the higher culture as opera is very significant for them. Pavarotti is still very popular, this is because he served as the musical guest on the popular late night NBC series, Saturday Night Live, in 1998. He also won the prestigious Concorso Internazionale.During his career, Luciano performed a total of 379 times at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. He fulfils a lot of needs for society and different individuals because he wants people enjoy themselves and feel like they are begining to live again, like he once said before. He also said "To the man you have to give the spirit, and when you give him the spirit, you have done everything". However pop culture of a pantomime is much more different to the higher culture of opera. A pantomime is more of a comedy which can be seen my middle class and even lower class people, where as most upper class people would watch opera. For this particular example i have picked cinderella because this movie explains the important things in life andshows you the realistic side to the world. Cinderella shows that some people struggle alot to earn money and live a good life, which pop culture understands however it would be difficult to understand for the higher culture as they live a "perfect" life without any distributions. This is why it is so popular and why people value it because it opens your eyes to see the wider, more realistic part of the world.People in our society, understand what it is to work hard and earn the money you need to live a good life but some dont, people from higher culture do not understand this because sometimes they may not even need to work hard to get a lot of money, which is why it is difficult for them to understand the difference between middle class and upper class. The fact that they watch opera makes them apparently more significant but that is wrong, because people of lower class watch opera but they are still classed as 'lower class'. Watching a pantomime doesnt make you less important but it does put you in a different culture type according to society which is why the functionalist approach can appeal to the difference beetween higher culture and pop culture (a opera singer and a pantomime).
In my personal opinion i think both of these pieces can be descirbed as art. Both the higher culture and popular culture are art to me. This is because they both try to put forward a meaning behind their shows, one is to entertain people and the other is to inspire people. Even tho higher class people may not think panto is a type of art because it is a type of comedy i still think it is because it can share a lot of different meanings. They both need different skills to be a type of art and they both do. The opera singer needs to do many cultural practices to develop his skills to have a beauty of a tone. These cultural practices include things like singing, practicing, doing tone exercies to get the right pitch etc. Where as with the panto the cultural practices they need to do are things like dancing, singing, acting, showing confidence and miming and even more. This shows the values of each of these types of art, they both need skills which go into a cultural practice to actually perform something out of it.
In my personal opinion i think both of these pieces can be descirbed as art. Both the higher culture and popular culture are art to me. This is because they both try to put forward a meaning behind their shows, one is to entertain people and the other is to inspire people. Even tho higher class people may not think panto is a type of art because it is a type of comedy i still think it is because it can share a lot of different meanings. They both need different skills to be a type of art and they both do. The opera singer needs to do many cultural practices to develop his skills to have a beauty of a tone. These cultural practices include things like singing, practicing, doing tone exercies to get the right pitch etc. Where as with the panto the cultural practices they need to do are things like dancing, singing, acting, showing confidence and miming and even more. This shows the values of each of these types of art, they both need skills which go into a cultural practice to actually perform something out of it.
I think we can clearly see the difference between the cinderella pantomime and the opera, that one is pop culture and the other is higher. The things that make cinderella pop culture is the fact that tickets to see that are probably much cheaper compared to seeing opera, this lets standard middle class people see it. Whereas with opera less people go to watch it because it is far more expensive. The still-popular story of "Cinderella" continues to influence popular culture internationally, because of the different plot elements, allusions, and because it has became so popular you can see it everyday of the wide variety of media. However, in contrast to this opera is a very formal and peaceful show to mainly relax or entertain people, the difference with this is that it is not usually seen on television. Many people only watch it live. This is because upper class people would see watching it on televsion as being less well-educated.
Personally, in my opinion out of the two i value the cinderella pantomime the most. This is not to do with the fact that i may be classed as 'middle class'. The reason that i value it the most is that i prefer it a lot more compared to opera. Opera to me is very dull and monotonous, in contrast to this i find cinderella very fascinating and lively this is because the characters show emotion and interest in what they are doing but the opera singers seem to carry on repeating what they are doing non stop which is why i have a alck of interest in that type of genre of art. The qualities i love about a pantomime is that the characters exagerrate and make their acting skills bigger than in real life. Also the fact that they make their actions more definite, sharper and and bigger is also a big advantage to a pantomime. I admire these qualities because it shows the different feeling and values of the different characters and lets me understand what they are feeling very clearly. Also as the main purpose of a pantomime is to entertain, the skills they have to act clearly outlines the purpose of the show. However opposite to this I do not enjoy opera as it doesn't show too many skills except for singing and maybe some acting which is not very emotional, so therefore it is very blank. Many people would probably see it as being passionate but in my opinoin i do not enjoy it as it is very emotionless, because throughout the whole of the opera they usually have a straight face which shows no emotion or passion in what they are doing.
