Even though you may have a point about Brightman, it's really the style of the music (not so much the range) that I have the issue with. (Though you're also right that it misses the showmanship of an aria like the Jewel Song.) "Think Of Me" just feels more contemporary than the rest of the diegetic opera music in the score, and even "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" (which is not in an opera, contextually) feels like it has a more "classical" sweep than "Think Of Me" does, at least to my ears.
I would wonder if this was actually a trunk song, or something Webber wrote early on before the rest of the score - and he never really came back to modify it.
(I'm also not meaning to avoid the stylistic anomaly of the title song lol - but since that's not part of a literal opera moment, it essentially passes. But if "Think Of Me" is supposed to be part of the Hannibal score, it really doesn't fit.) |
