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I am getting so caught up in Marriage of Figaro. I just learned the other aria (Non So Piu Cosa Son) and I rented the DVD and took notes on all of the Cherubino parts. I am getting so obsessed with this character.
I'm realizing more and more that he is myself. Cherubino is literally the story of my life. I am feeling so much empathy for this character that I actually feel dizzy when I sing his music. He never gets that one damn kiss from the woman he loves...he has so much love to express that he doesn't even know what to do with himself...and no one takes him seriously because they think he's just a horny little boy...he finds the Countess' hair ribbon and literally gets high just from smelling it...he falls for all of the older, married women whom he doesn't have a chance with...he definitely has a little bit of an Oedipal complex going on (he's in love with the Countess who is his godmother)...women flirt with him and lead him on but they don't intend on going any further...to everyone else, he is just your average hormonal teenage boy- but to him, his feelings are unique and unparalleled by anything else that anyone has ever felt for a woman since the dawn of time.
I started learning this role thinking that he was just a buffoon, but he is really so much more than that. He is so sincere, and he takes himself very seriously. I can't just play him like a clown, as I was planning to do. To him, everything that he says is noble and pure and inspired by all things poetic. He is so much more than what everyone thinks of him. He is an aspiring romantic hero, a seducer in training, a songwriter, a poet, a humanist...
Damn, I love this kid.
I'm realizing more and more that he is myself. Cherubino is literally the story of my life. I am feeling so much empathy for this character that I actually feel dizzy when I sing his music. He never gets that one damn kiss from the woman he loves...he has so much love to express that he doesn't even know what to do with himself...and no one takes him seriously because they think he's just a horny little boy...he finds the Countess' hair ribbon and literally gets high just from smelling it...he falls for all of the older, married women whom he doesn't have a chance with...he definitely has a little bit of an Oedipal complex going on (he's in love with the Countess who is his godmother)...women flirt with him and lead him on but they don't intend on going any further...to everyone else, he is just your average hormonal teenage boy- but to him, his feelings are unique and unparalleled by anything else that anyone has ever felt for a woman since the dawn of time.
I started learning this role thinking that he was just a buffoon, but he is really so much more than that. He is so sincere, and he takes himself very seriously. I can't just play him like a clown, as I was planning to do. To him, everything that he says is noble and pure and inspired by all things poetic. He is so much more than what everyone thinks of him. He is an aspiring romantic hero, a seducer in training, a songwriter, a poet, a humanist...
Damn, I love this kid.