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i finally made my own character bingo go nuts inbox (feel free to rb)

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i really can’t stress enough how much i recommend regularly engaging with older art– movies, books, whatever. like, “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it” and all that, but also, there’s just something really fascinating and kind of beautiful about reading something written by someone who lived so long ago and really connecting with it, recognizing the humanity of people who once seemed like abstract concepts to you

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Ferruccio Furlanetto as Leporello

Don Giovanni (Mozart), Salzburg, 1987

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huge fan of the amount of taped don giovanni productions where during the last little duet bit ottavio and anna have, the camera like. pans over just enough for us to see leporello having a mental breakdown in the back

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”audio tapes have been discovered linking placido domingo to argentinian organized crime sects” Yeah. Sure. Why Not. I guess this is where we are. Shit is already goddamn weird enough.

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i love being able to draw whatever i want

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Night at the museum, Nicolas Krief

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i hate “content”… i hate calling everything “content”… what is it. is it art? is it a video? is it makeup? is it comedy? what is it. labeling everything as “content” strips away the effort and passion it takes to create things and homogenizes everything into a giant mass to be consumed i hate it ….

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this week in I Am Very Smart: having enough money to go to the opera, museums and concerts correlates with having enough money for food, shelter and basic health needs

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Gino Quilico as Don Giovanni and his father Louis Quilico as Leporello.

Casting a father and son must have added something interesting to these two characters' chemistry, just like when Peter Sellars cast twin brothers Eugene and Herbert Perry in the roles.

I've read that the Quilicos also sometimes used to sing in The Barber of Seville together, Gino as Figaro, Louis as Dr. Bartolo. A funny in-joke, given what the two characters eventually discover in The Marriage of Figaro.

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Ferruccio Furlanetto as Leporello

Don Giovanni (Mozart), Salzburg, 1987

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the director of my don giovanni production has never seen an opera in her life but she just sent out a scene-by-scene filming guide and someone should hire her to write synopsis booklets for opera houses

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Rehearsing Don Giovanni at La Scala, 1987 | Thomas Allen, Susanne Mentzer, Natale de Carolis

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Happy Valentine’s day folks! ❤ ♥️ ❤

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Kate Lindsey as Cherubino in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro

(San Francisco Opera, 2015)

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Le nozze di Figaro (San Francisco, 2015) reactions, pt. 2

yet another stunning diva

this Figaro is so flamboyant I love it

child

I love these two so freaking much

he does not want to wear that hat

not a fan of the corset either

could she be any cuter

hamming it up to gain his Lady’s sympathies

“just one kiss before you close the door?”

so cool, so collected

it’s never not funny when Susanna walks in right as the Count starts yelling at the closet

stop being a jerk

all those servants hanging out by the door eavesdropping

this staging is priceless 

“Figaro, take the hint”

ladies

the bad news crew has arrived

I love this finale so much and these people are awesome

Susanna takes one for the team

she deserves so much better (also WHY IS SHE SO PRETTY)

im dead (again)

I’ll never get over this plot twist

her expressions are everything

stand by my assertation that these two should get married

oh, Cherubino

all their faces 

aaaaaaand here we go