Talk:Cavatina

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Depressingly incomplete article.

Gives the impression that the major editor is not knowledgeable about opera and singing.

I had to laugh when I realized he simply copied the little paragraph from the 11th ed. of the Britannica, without eve bothering to explain it.--ROO BOOKAROO (talk) 21:15, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

agreed...
also, isn't the cavatina usually a question to which a following faster section, whose traditional name I can't recall offhand, is usually a "response"? (The latter is sometimes unwisely cut in recordings, unfortunately.) ELSchissel (talk) 10:58, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah there, I see - contrasting cabaletta. The relation to older (Baroque, Classical) aria forms could use some exploration, of course, and might raise this article above the flat... ELSchissel (talk) 13:46, 8 August 2020 (UTC)