hi folks - this was for a project I've just finished this weekend - last minute addition to the score and I only had 3 days to turn it around so the orchestration's a little sketchy. It's for a violent video game, one of the scenes is set in an opera house so they wanted me to write some cliche'd opera music to play in the background (against violent shooting - usual story so it'll probably be drowned out in explosions). If I'm honest I'm not that knowledgable on Opera so this was a bit of a 'blag' - the lyrics were kindly translated into Italian by Lux from the Northern Sounds forum.
www.mediathemes.co.uk/mp3/aria_01.mp3
www.mediathemes.co.uk/mp3/aria_02.mp3
It's exclusively VSL (French Oboe, perf set pro) - strings are almost all Chamber Strings apart from an 8ths repetition patch from pro (didn't have the BPM I was after in the chamber set), and pizz bass was from the cube strings (found the chamber pizz bass was a bit twangy for this context).
Would be interested to hear what anyone who knows about 'real' Opera thinks to these [:)]
Ian
www.mediathemes.co.uk/mp3/aria_01.mp3
www.mediathemes.co.uk/mp3/aria_02.mp3
It's exclusively VSL (French Oboe, perf set pro) - strings are almost all Chamber Strings apart from an 8ths repetition patch from pro (didn't have the BPM I was after in the chamber set), and pizz bass was from the cube strings (found the chamber pizz bass was a bit twangy for this context).
Would be interested to hear what anyone who knows about 'real' Opera thinks to these [:)]
Ian