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What is our responsibility and our genuine aspiration?

What can we talk about when there are kids dying in war a couple of hundred miles.

What can we talk about when such things have been happening more miles away but they did not reach us for concern.

Are we just witnesses of human suffering or supporters of it by our indifference and inability to say or do anything beyond self gratifying charity contributions?

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Jammo, jammo 'ncoppa jammo jà

Jammo, jammo 'ncoppa jammo jà

（Auto capitalisation is not the case anymore.）

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Pupille amate

Voi m' insegnate

A Trionfar

Pupille amate

Non lagrimate

Otchi tchornye

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Blessed invention, extend your forgiveness!

From now on this shall be that form

Of love which people call "L'amour à trois".

I must go now.

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"Let her believe I'm free and far away... on a new path of redemption!...

She will wait for my return... And the days will pass, and I, and I will not return."

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When thought becomes feeling, feeling thought . . . When the mind bows low before beauty . . . When nature perceives the ecstatic moment . . . When genius leaves contemplation for one moment of reality . . . Then Eros is in the word

Death in Venice

by Britten

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Andrea Bocelli - Ave Maria

#ave #mary #ia #avemaria

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Those who cannot sleep should wake up with Nessun dorma!

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Pour moi, qui n'ai que de l'amour et de la constance à offrir les femmes méprisent ma misère et font leur jouet de ma simplicité. J'ajoutai

Abbé Prévost, Manon Lescaut

Henze's lyrical opera Boulevard Solitude premiered this month, exactly 69 years ago, in the beautiful Opernplatz of Hannover. It's libretto was an adaptation of unforgettable Manon Lescaut. This contemporary piece is not the only operatic work on that novel - who can forget Puccini's famous piece which read written almost 60 years before the Boulevard Solitude!

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- A man should have

Hobbies to cheer his private life.

- Dabbling on shore half-naked sea-boys crowd,

Swim round a ship, or swing upon a shroud

Or in a boat purloined with paddles play

And grow familiar with the watery way.

ACT I Peter Grimes (1945)

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Eugene Onegin (Met, 2007): Reactions, Part III

The Final Showdown @tatyana-dreaming​. As if last act wasn’t enough…

staging the Polonaise connected directly like this kills me

I am including this for absolutely no reason what are you even talking about

EVEN MORE CHAIRS also the Polonaise BOPS

but I mean, Tchaikovsky in general BOPS

like Narcissus staring at his own reflection except Dima wasn’t narcissistic

I mean, what did you expect to happen

mood

fun times!!!

QUEEN

OOF

on this blog we stan the great husband material that is Prince Gremin

well this is awkward

answer: the realization that You Done Fucked Up

and the party goes on

oh honey…

IT’S FINAL SHOWDOWN TIME

my how the turn tables

the tea is HOT

BUT SHE HAS THAT’S PART OF THE POINT HERE

:(

this momeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeent

I am totally not crying

definitely not crying.

but seriously this one line shatters me

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

:( :(

I do admire her integrity though

THEY BOTH DESERVE BETTER

I AM NOT OKAY AT ALL

I HAVE BEEN DESTROYED

bonus:

THE MOST ICONIC DUO

we love you now and forever <3

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ბულბულის გალობა 3. შენიშვნა

ნიავი

მზით გამთბარი

სანაპიროზე

ბევრი ტირიფი

მწვანეთვალება

მსგავსი მაგრამ არა სრული

(ხარები ვერ დაიმალება?)

რომელი ოსტატი

დახატავს ამ თავის ჩახრას

არც მწვანეს არ თეთრს

მსუბუქ ღიმილიანს

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The DUENNA written by Sheridan and composed by Linleys and ОБРУЧЕНИЕ В МОНАСТЫРЕ by Sergei Prokofiev Text: Sergei Prokofjew and Mira Mendelson!!!

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 A bumper of good liquor

  Will end a contest quicker

  Than justice, judge, or vicar;

  So fill a cheerful glass,

  And let good humour pass.

  But if more deep the quarrel,

  Why, sooner drain the barrel

  Than be the hateful fellow

  That's crabbed when he's mellow.

The DUENNA written by Sheridan and composed by Linleys and ОБРУЧЕНИЕ В МОНАСТЫРЕ by Sergei Prokofiev Text: Sergei Prokofjew and Mira Mendelson!!!

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- To-morrow from the mountain may your vision be restored

- To-morrow may we gratefully repay your love.

- To-morrow, to a world that must be faster. I can’t wait!

(chime)

- Master, it’s time for your tonic? Shall I make it.

- No, no. These two are my tonic to-day.

no, not Macbeth, Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers (1961)... excellent libretto in English by Wystan Hugh Auden und Chester Kallman

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When thou hast risen on the Eastern Horizon

Thou art fair, great, dazzling,

High above every land

Thy rays encompass the land

To the very end of all thou hast made.

(Text sung in English from Winton Thomas's English translation published in Documents from Old Testament Times)

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“… and I should feel so set up, that I should lose whatever the pain happened to be—I think in my spine—no perhaps in my head—and toss life like a pancake—.”

— Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters (via wavingtovirginia)