#rodelinda

[akathecentimetre]

Milan and the surrounding countryside, early 18th century. Bertarido, king of Lombardy and Milan, has been attacked and deposed by Grimoaldo, an ally of his estranged brother, Gundeberto. Gundeberto was killed in the battle and Bertarido vanished, leaving his queen, Rodelinda, and a young son, Flavio, in the power of the victorious ally, Grimoaldo. As a reward for defeating Bertarido, Grimoaldo was promised the hand of Bertarido’s sister, Eduige—which would grant him a legitimate claim to the throne at Milan. Eduige and Grimoaldo fell in love, but she would not marry him while mourning two brothers—one dead, one presumed so. From abroad Bertarido has sent word of his own death, intending to return to Milan in disguise, rescue his wife and son, and escape to an anonymous life far from the vagaries of politics and the burden of government. The news of his death has devastated both Rodelinda and Eduige. Grimoaldo, intent on gaining the throne, weighs his options, counseled by two advisers—Garibaldo, his closest aide, and Unulfo, a member of Bertarido’s cabinet who maintains intimate ties with the royal family and is the only person who knows that Bertarido still lives. - MetOpera.org ; full opera synopsis here.

Bonus (for @agarthanguide because it's her quote) :

#my gifs #rodelinda #opera #met opera #renee fleming #andreas scholl #iestyn davies #handel #georg friedrich händel

[garland-on-thy-brow]

Rodelinda the opera (Haym/Händel): mimesis bingo.

Bingo card courtesy of @catilinas

My post about the Enemy Brothers, Treasonous Sister (Hot), and Some Guy From Benevento.

#rodelinda #opera #mimesis bingo

[lives-in-a-harpsichord]

Oh no I just remembered. That's Littlefinger

#sonja's life #opera #rodelinda

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

grimoaldo at the beginning of the final scene of handel’s rodelinda:

@rayatii

#this scene is so stupidly funny conceptually and i love it #opera tag #opera #rodelinda #garibaldo is holding the camera btw #and is quite excited that he’ll have a chance to try to kill him #handel #händel #george frideric handel #georg friedrich händel #pastorello d’un povero armento #do it for the vine #anyway i’m going to bed myself now actually so goodnight y’all #Youtube

[pleasingnight]

In my liminal era. It is just like in Mozart's Lucio Silla, when Cecilio, the proscribed senator presumed dead, secretly comes back to Rome and lurks near the tomb of Marius (which, interestingly, borders the estate of Sulla), because he knows his fiancée frequents that spot. (The scene itself is a close parallel to Handel's Rodelinda, where the exiled "rightful king", presumed dead, returns the same way to see his queen. Same scene, different forms of government.)

#opera #lucio silla #rodelinda

[tfblovesmusic]

CW: violence, blood, suggestive themes, self harm (also CW - spoilers - at the beginning of the aria, "Vivi, tiranno!")

#2003 #Ivor Bolton #Rodelinda #Georg Fredric Handel #Bavarian State Opera Chorus and Orchestra #Dorothea Röschmann #Michael Chance #Paul Nilon #Umberto Chiummo #Felicity Palmer #Christopher Robson #Elias Maurides #baroque opera #Youtube

[lavenderfeminist]

LMFAOOO

#I didn’t use Spotify for like half the year but this is too much #it’s because I listened to Rodelinda a billion times before I went to see it #opera #classical music

[agarthanguide]

I’m watching opera with @akathecentimetre. Rodelinda trashed the dining table it was fucking awesome.

#my art #sketch #opera #opera? #kinda

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) "Portrait of Sarah Harrop (Mrs. Bates) as a Muse" (1780-1781) Oil on canvas Neoclassical Located in the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, United States Kauffmann’s portrait of the renowned singer Sarah Harrop (Mrs. Bates), is a rare representation of a self-made woman, the great performer Sarah Harrop (1755–1811), by one of the very few professional women artists of the period. Kauffmann, one of two female co-founders of Britain’s Royal Academy, shows Harrop seated in the wilderness, a lyre at her side and a rolled sheet of music in her hand. The mountain, Mount Parnassos, is the home of the Muses, and the waterfall issues from the Hippocrene spring. The lyre most likely relates toErato, the Muse of lyric poetry, and while the sheet music is an aria from George Frideric Handel’s opera Rodelinda, Queen of the Lombards (1725). The music hints at a personal meaning since "Dove sei, l’amato bene" is sung by Rodelinda's husband, whose longing words must have been chosen specifically for their personal significance in what was almost certainly a marriage portrait.

#paintings #art #artwork #genre painting #female portrait #angelica kauffmann #oil on canvas #fine art #neoclassical #neoclassicism #history #portrait of a woman #pink dress #dresses #clothing #clothes #blonde hair #blond #musical instruments #art analysis #pretty #aesthetic #aesthetics #1780s #late 1700s #late 19th century

[nikkeisimmer]

In my legacy, River McIrish is going to not only be taking visual arts at university, but she is also a coloratura soprano in the vocal music program at UBC. Yes, I’m differing from the established canon from Sims 3 for River.

Her boyfriend (later to be husband in my legacy) is Haruo who is a lyrical tenor.

As a former baritone, myself, I used to find tenors annoying; they got all the good stuff.

So, I’ve decided that I’m going to find a list of the five arias from Handel that I love the most that River is going to perform at her recitals while she’s taking music at university. 🤣

1. 1st year -

Ritorna Oh Caro - Rodelinda

Tess Mattingly - Voices of Music recording /Video

One of the most natural interpretations of this Handel aria I’ve ever listened to. Tess pulls off the baroque style perfectly in this performance and I wish she would record more in the baroque period but she is an active singer doing opera of the Romantic period. (Puccini, Rossini, etc).

2. 2nd Year -

Oh, That I On Wings Could Rise - Theodora

A beautiful interpretation by the late Lorraine Hunt (Lieberson). This is the right pacing for an aria by a character who is being persecuted by the Roman Valens under threat of being executed for the crime of being a Christian under Roman rule. THIS is a lament, not a joyful wish.

3. 3rd Year -

Credete Al Mio Dolore - Alcina

Natalie Dessay is one of my favorite sopranos and this interpretation is probably one of the best I’ve heard, the character of Morgana being one of the most tragic as far as I’m concerned. She is second fiddle to Alcina throughout the entire opera, dragged into this web of deception and suffers an ignominious demise as Alcina’s whole world crumbles around her. Meanwhile Morgana just ends up losing her lover whom she cheated on while doing nothing evil to warrant such a fate other than to be Alcina’s sidekick.

4. 4th Year -

Tu Del Ciel Ministro Eletto -Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno.

Natalie Dessay again with this gorgeous aria from Handel’s Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno. The ONLY interpretation I’ll listen to of this piece.

5. Graduation Recital -

Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion - Messiah

Lynne Dawson’s interpretation of this famous air from the Messiah is one of the best I’ve heard, quiet but she hits all those rapid notes dead on. She doesn’t go into the vocal gymnastics of Kathleen Battle in the second round of the da capo aria but her interpretation and cadenza is clean.

Bonus: duet with Haruo for her graduation recital -

Air: Streams of Pleasure Ever Flowing/Duet: Thither Let Our Hearts Inspire

Lorraine Hunt (Lieberson) again with Drew Minter (countertenor)

So these are the arias and airs I’m going to have River do while she’s at university. The duet, Haruo would have to sing completely in falsetto as a tenor. He doesn’t have the chest voice and power of a true countertenor. 🤣

What River thinks of her audition piece to get into the UBC School of Music. 🤣

#Youtube #Georg Frideric Handel #sims 3 #ts3 #river mcirish #sims 3 storytelling #river and haruo #haruo chikamori #sims 3 legacy #The Chikamori Legacy

[joansutherlandfan]

"Actually I do find my bel canto life fascinating and I feel honored to be able to contribute to the revival of the great glories of the past. Händel's Alcina and Rodelinda, Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda, what glorious works they are! And I find so much more pleasure in breathing life once again into these wonderful masterpieces than in repeating Madame Butterfly or Aida for the thousandth time. I could not begin to describe the emotion I felt when I sang the original finale to I Purilani for the first time since the days of Malibran." Joan Sutherland • Joan Sutherland as Beatrice di Tenda at Teatro alla Scala, May 1961. • #Opera #ClassicalMusic #BelCanto #Baroque #OperaSinger #InstaOpera • #Dramatic #Coloratura #Soprano #Dame #JoanSutherland #LaStupenda #LaStupendissima #Diva #PrimaDonna #Legend • #Composer #VincenzoBellini #BeatricediTenda • #Concert #Recital • #Costume #Stage #OperaHouse • #ROH #LaScala #MetOpera #SydneyOperaHouse  • #1960s (em Teatro alla Scala) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch4lGpGOIQk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#opera #classicalmusic #belcanto #baroque #operasinger #instaopera #dramatic #coloratura #soprano #dame #joansutherland #lastupenda #lastupendissima #diva #primadonna #legend #composer #vincenzobellini #beatriceditenda #concert #recital #costume #stage #operahouse #roh #lascala #metopera #sydneyoperahouse #1960s

[akathecentimetre]

English National Opera, Handel's Rodelinda, 2014 dir. Richard Jones

*wheezes* so uhhhhh does anyone have any video leads on this production?

#I need it for... research #iestyn davies #the crush continues #english national opera #ENO #handel #georg friedrich händel #rodelinda #opera

[garland-on-thy-brow]

I love that it is specified here that the dead character does not sing in the finale. Because otherwise he would. In Glyndebourne Giulio Cesare in Egitto the dead characters very much do sing in the finale.

#rodelinda #giulio cesare in egitto #opera

[lives-in-a-harpsichord]

Bruintober part 48

Usurpers in thigh high boots gotta be one of my favourite genders

I'm sorry I'm new to memes

#Sonja's life #opera #Rodelinda #Händel #Sonja's art #Bruintober

[vera-dauriac]

@widevibratobitch You asked for gay opera caps, but said you've already pillaged my Roberto Devereux and Don Carlo pics, so this is what else I found lingering on my hard drive. From top to bottom:

1-2 Mariusz and Piotr in the Met Eugene Onegin

3. Matthew and Mariusz in the Met Pearl Fishers

4-7 Andreas Scholl and Iestyn Davies in the Met Rodelinda (caps I completely forgot I had!)

8-16 Mariusz and MFab in the ROH La Boheme

I don't currently have Rome Ernani or ROH La forza caps, and at this exact moment, I've got some rather annoying eye strain happening, so I don't want to make them tonight, but if they would be useful to you and your friend in this important endeavor, let me know and I'll try to get to it this weekend.

Everyone else, just enjoy. ;)

#opera #it can be so gay #when staged properly

[lmarodrigues]

G.F. Haendel: Rodelinda

#youtube