The Impresario

The Manager or Patron

The Impresario by Jake Kaufman & Tommy Pedrini

"Who doesn't love a good rock opera from time to time"

Is it a rock opera? It's only one song rather than a whole concept album...but it's, like, a medley so...Whatever. It's rock and it's operatic.

There's a cool review of this track here. If you're actually a FFVI fan, then that will probably be more interesting to you than anything I can say. I'm just listening to this music for the first time, so to me it is a rock opera and that's the end of it. If you played the game, then you'll probably be listening to this arrangement as a wild cover of a beloved soundtrack, and that's a very different experience.

That reviewer also lists a bunch of other covers of the same OST, and that might interest you if you're familiar with the music.

This track is very, very reminiscent of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, and I'm sure they're not trying to hide it. The template is exactly the same, with "an intro, a ballad segment, an operatic passage, a hard rock part and a reflective coda" (x).

[Side Note: Apparently Queen literally invented the concept of a music video with Bohemian Rhapsody seven years before MTV went on the air (x)]

Since I'm not familiar with FFVI music, I honestly just hear this track as a funky take on Bohemian Rhapsody. Like, this part and the guitar solo are just so similar to the Queen song, dude.

Anyway, kudos to the OC ReMix crew for taking a risk like this. Apparently it was already, like, legitimate opera on the FFVI soundtrack, so it wasn't completely absurd to create a rock opera. But still. Mad talent, respect.

P.S. Here is an orchestral arrangement of the original. Apparently this Aria di Mezzo Carattere is one of the most famous pieces of music to come out of the whole Final Fantasy series (x).

Overview:

Genre:
Symphonic Rock

Favorite Lyrics:
The night is young, and so are we.

Verdict:
entertaining