Madama Butterfly animation

From the few Opera videos I watched in class and after watching this animation, I agree that Opera evokes emotion no matter what. Different tones and sounds play with our emotions and get different reactions. If the music is fast, the audience will react with anticipation and suspension, but if the music is slow and calm, the audience will feel happy and relaxed. In this animation, the music really told the story. As it opened the music was peaceful and soft which fit the scene of  a butterfly in the field with the man and women making love. The music was also used to show the changes from morning to night, ranging from cheerful to more serious tones. When the baby was born, the music got really loud and high pitched which represents the new life being brought into the world. Also, when the man returned, the music was very upbeat and hopeful, which was reflecting the feeling of the woman. But when he came back with another woman to take the baby, the music became very low and serious which represents how the mother was feeling as her baby was taken away from her. I enjoyed the flow of this animation because the music really connected the story and would have been able to tell a story even without the visual aspect of it. As the woman was deconstructing her limbs at the climax of the story, the music was the most dramatic at that point too. If the music had not been there to support the visual, the audience would not feel the woman's pain of having her baby being taken away. Throughout the animation, I was able to be connected with my emotions from this. Opera truly does evoke emotion and leads the audience throughout the story to feel connected with the performance.