#opera tag

[leporellian]

i know everyone (including me) loves the teatro comunale di bologna posters but i feel like we need to talk about the don giovanni one. they understand the assignment, which is 'this guy has to look like a trust fund grade-A SHITHEAD'. truly incredible

#don giovanni #opera tag #rambles

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

now that the most recent one of these is finished, i thought i’d have a try at one of these:

@elucubrare how did i do?

#opera tag #opera #polls

[esteemed-excellency]

I saved some pictures for the latest moodboard and I need you all to see how pretty these libretti covers are

#edizioni ricordi my beloved <3 #as a libretti collector I NEED all of these #opera booklet #opera libretto #opera #opera theatre #la traviata #italian opera #booklet illustration #illustration #giuseppe verdi #verdi opera #opera music #classical music #my posts #opera tag

[bluberimufim]

Is the brooding jester painting even about Rigoletto or did everyone just wake up one day and decide to assign it to him?

#opera tag #operablr #not writing #rigoletto

[malusienki]

a small collection of susanna insulting figaro

#opera tag #le nozze di figaro #mozart #i love her. so much. she is so.

[derring-do]

John Relyea and Crispin Lord in Duke Bluebeard's Castle at ENO

"Allison Cook, cast as Judith, withdrew from the performance late in the day because of illness. With only two hours’ rehearsal, Jennifer Johnston sang, not from the side of the stage, as one might expect, but as a costumed, albeit largely immobile presence within Joe Hill-Gibbins’s production. The role was acted, meanwhile, wonderfully well, by Crispin Lord, one of ENO’s staff directors, handsome yet androgynous in a white singlet and silk skirt, so that Bluebeard’s final partner, in a remarkable twist, effectively becomes his husband rather than his wife."

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#this sounds amazing #duke bluebeard's castle #john relyea #opera tag #bartók #sounds like johnston sang the role brilliantly #opera

[houppellande]

Samuel Ramey as Mefistofele Mefistofele, Arrigo Boito -  War Memorial Opera House (San Francisco, 1989)

#I'm falling in love with opera all over again guys #say it's boring and I'll fight you #opera tag #mefistofele #arrigo boito #boito #opera lirica #theatre #theater #devil has immaculate drip #ngl

[kind-of-a-shitty-wizard]

hello opera tumblr im new here and dont know all too much abt opera but i really enjoyed a production of don giovanni that i havent seen anyone mention so i wanted to bring it to more ppl :pp

come to the 2005 teatro real production we have

beautiful set

cool nebulously 1800s-1900s costumes

anachronisms where it works. for example don giovanni wears sunglasses sometimes because of fucking course he would

solid cast especially leporello

(^ like ohmygod... i was about to click off this production to watch the one with samuel ramey but then he started singing madamina and knocked it out of the park so hard that i watched the whole prod. im lorenzo regazzos biggest fan rn)

they dont do that weird thing where they make donna anna be in love with don giovanni

they actually portray donna anna well overall. there’s the right balance of "im in mourning" and "i want revenge" which im given to understand is a rarity

did i mention the sets were cool asf

also they make leporello wear this

its available on youtube here with english subs :]

#anyway this post is really about lorenzo regazzo. has anyone ever heard of lorenzo regazzo. he is so fucking funny #anyway i hope more ppl see it it was rly good :p #WHYY tf did i believe opera was boring before…. #i saw the commendatore drag don g into hell and it literally unlocked shrimp emotions in me this shit is not boring #RRAGH #opera tag #don giovanni

[verdiesque]

Behold my magnum opus

(list of Rodrigos under the cut)

In order of appearance:

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Deutsche Oper Berlin, 1965)

Étienne Dupuis (Metropolitan Opera, 2022)

Mariusz Kwiecień (San Francisco Opera, 2016)

Sherrill Milnes (Metropolitan Opera, 1980)

Simon Keenlyside (Royal Opera House, 2008)

#don carlo #don carlos #opera tag #i think i'm so funny for this sorry

[leporellian]

i think there does need to be a discussion about how a lot of the 'what if donna anna secretly wanted don giovanni' angles come from the idea that she is a boring character on her own and needs to be 'spiced up' when there are many, many baritones and other male opera roles who's whole thing is 'someone killed a loved one and now i'm going to be vengeant about it to the point i'm just hurting myself' and none of Them get seen as 'boring characters that need to be spiced up'. i wonder why as soon as it's a woman doing it, it becomes boring. much to discuss!

#inb4 'and thats why she should be a girlboss instead' girl not that either can we please be normal; #don giovanni #donna anna #opera tag #rambles

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

#opera #opera tag #rigoletto #verdi #giuseppe verdi #i mean basically yeah

[widevibratobitch]

so... about that last weekend...

did going to the opera with @girlscarpia and @verdiesque fix me or did it make me worse? guess we're all gonna find out soon <33

#that picture with del monaco is pure perfection god bless you sofia <333333 #what really makes it imo is the sad pavarotti looking down at my butt lmao #anyway. i had an absolutely amazing time and the clown trovatore production was stupid as hell but then again. #they just adapted to their audience ig 🤡 #hope the museum guard who saw us clowning in the guest book and gave us the dirtiest look ever finds it in himself to forgive us one day 🙏 #opera tag #also my coat in the last picture looks kinda red but i can assure you all it's absolutely pink ok thanks #big verdi is real and its comin to getcha! #love you girlies mwah

[bluberimufim]

And what have I done with the precious, limited time I have to prepare for NaNo?

Did I outline? Did I plan out my WIP? Did I develop characters and themes?

No.

I COMPOSED A WHOLE-ASS SONG COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO THE WIP

THAT'S WHAT I DID

#that being said. i really like the song. #it's a 4-voice canon based on a recitative from an opera i like #still. #someone HELP ME #devourer of souls wip #nanowrimo #maybe i'll talk more about the song later who knows #writing #writeblr #my wips #opera tag #music #composing ramblies

[malusienki]

i like the phrasing here

#opera tag #kinda what my essay touched on too #so for that reason: #blog thesis statement

[spghtrbry]

……………….uuuummm anyways-

#IM SORRY #Should i tag this. okay i will #opera tag #carmen #don josé #carmen opera #😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[tuttocenere]

Found out today about La Nonne Sanglante, an opera that was put in this world specifically for me:

there is a ghost in it

the ghost gets married

also the ghost is a nice low voiced mezzo

absolute sicko plot all around

it's by gounod / in french

complete flop that spent 150 years forgotten

there's a recording with michael spyres

of, apparently, one of the three runs ever

Needless to say I immediately like it a lot, but after listening to most of it I think it's actually p good.

#la nonne sanglante #there is a ghost in it #opera tag