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opera-ghosts · 19 days

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A performance of Gounod Opera „Faust“ at The Metropolitan Opera 1893.

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mlle-christine-nilsson · 8 months

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bobdobalina · 7 months

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[Leonie Rysanek] possessed a gleaming, refulgent soprano voice with an especially powerful top and a rich middle range, ideal for roles like Wagner's Sieglinde and Senta, Strauss's Chrysothemis, and Beethoven's Leonora.… Ms. Rysanek credited her longevity to careful pacing; even at the height of her career, she never sang more than 45 or so performances a year. But, in an interview with The Times on the occasion of her Met farewell, she also cited her ability to say no to the most taxing roles. And, in a way, she explained, the presence of her colleague Birgit Nilsson as the reigning dramatic soprano of her day, fortified her own resolve.

''Yes, I was asked to sing Brünnhilde,'' she said. ''But there was always Birgit, wonderful Birgit, next to me. She was my Brünnhilde, my Elektra. She was so wonderful in these parts. . . . Even Birgit asked, 'Why don't you sing Turandot?' I said, 'Because of you.' Maybe's it's Birgit who saved my voice.''

— from Anthony Tommasini’s obituary for Leonie Rysanek, New York Times, March 9, 1998

Thinking about the sisterly relationship between a Sieglinde and her Brünnhilde, a Chrysothemis and her Elektra, a Kaiserin and her Färberin… and how the same singers might find themselves in that relationship over and over in different operas 😭

[top L: Leonie Rysanek (Chrysothemis) and Birgit Nilsson (Elektra) in Strauss's Elektra, Metropolitan Opera 1966. top R: Anne Schwanewilms (Kaiserin) and Christine Goerke (Färberin) in Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, Metropolitan Opera 2013.]

[top L: Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde) and Lise Davidsen (Sieglinde) in Wagner's Die Walküre, Deutsche Oper Berlin 2020. bottom R: Lise Davidsen (Chrysothemis) and Nina Stemme (Elektra) in Strauss's Elektra, Metropolitan Opera 2022.]

#opera #opera tag #dramatic soprano #sopranos #Leonie Rysanek #Birgit Nilsson #diva solidarity #Sieglinde #Brünnhilde #Chrysothemis #Elektra #Die Walküre #Die Frau ohne Schatten #Richard Wagner #Richard Strauss #sisterhood #always Birgit wonderful Birgit

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tropiyas · 2 years

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people weren’t kidding. sopranos is a good show

#i’m only 4 episodes in and i’m calling it a masterpiece #there’s something about the way that everything in the show works so far #and that it’s dramatic and also funny. just like breaking bad and better call saul #but sopranos tries (and imo succeeds) at a much more consistent balance of drama/humor and PLOT #and the characters. my god all the characters feel so real

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joansutherlandfan · 8 months

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Remembering the greatest of the tenors and Joan's close friend - Luciano Pavarotti (12 October 1935 - 6 September 2007).

[…] "Going to Australia with Joan, first of all, I've learned to be a very serious professional singer and from her particularly, I learn to breath, who is the most important thing, but the most difficult. More than anything, I think the technique is perfect, I think it's probably the most incredible technique of all the time I would say." […]

Excerpt taken from the documentary "Pavarotti - 2019" by Ron Howard.

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vocemematouprimeiro · 3 days

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The Sopranos - David Chase

#the sopranos #sopranos #christopher moltisanti #michael imperioli #y2k aesthetic #y2k movies #y2k #alcoholism #drama #crime #romance #mafia #dramatic #depresion #sadnees #sad #cry #chris moltisanti

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widevibratobitch · 7 months

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13 years today... rip queen. who could ever do it like you.

#(tetrazzini could and did and kinda did it better cause she had chest too but shshshhsh thats not important rn. she was TETRAZZINI. come on)#i dont talk enough about how much i love sutherland on here. prolly because she's pRoBLeMatIc but like. fucking listen to that.#she was INCREDIBLE in the early 1960s #i dont care about anything else. jesus h christ what a voice.#like yes she would have been a great dramatic soprano with this instrument if she had kept her technique Right.#but truth be told i dont care. her coloratura singing was absolutely sublime. even with the wabbababababba diction whatever #joan sutherland you will always be famous #i used to be obsessed with her BEFORE i was ever obsessed with tebaldi or even bastianini #she was the first of the Old Singers (though she's not really one of the Properly Old ones but shh) that i started listening to #what a legend #joan sutherland #opera tag

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essaytime · 8 months

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I swear in every Polish church there is that one (1), usually elderly, lady who believes she is Maria Callas and this is a concert instead of a mass

#ciebie prosimy- *dramatic soprano* WYSŁUCHAJ NAS PAAANIEEE

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falled-over · 11 months

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watching the sopranos rn (first time eva) and im 3 episodes into s4 which my dad told me is where it starts to really pick up. hey its a different show, like this is a different programme altogether

#everything is entirely different #it was 3 ep to season long arcs before. occasionally peppered with ep long issues #but typically most scenes contributed to long themes. there was no A B plot structure (A plot is the plot of the episode. B plot is the over #all plot of a season)#and everything remained within the mafia. and fairly self-contained #suddenly we've got heavily self-contained episodes with a huge focus on the A plot with little to no carry-over into the next #like it was a story about the terror of growing up to become a mafia leader. then the SA episode. then i dont remember what the last one was #and there are longer arcs bubbling in the background #crazy. its much more exciting and satisfying #interestingly one of the main writers for the sopranos went on to make madmen which ive already seen #and they also had a major upheaval of the exact same type in season 4. where the stakes were suddenly and dramatically upped #i didnt like it in madmen because i enjoyed its vintage feel #but i got used to it eventually #also im really impressed with how they write tony soprano. i go through wildly hating him to loving him within a single ep #which makes me wonder what the fuck went wrong with don draper. i hated that man from start to end #how do u write mr soprano and then fuck up draper that bad #oh well #if anyone actually read all this do u want to go out for a date #or if uve seen either of these pls tell me ur thoughts

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shoesofthefishermanswife · 1 year

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i would've done the fach system so much better actually (<- has never seriously studied classical/operatic voice)

#introducing a vocal type in between mezzo and contralto #<- my only evidence is that the contralto break is at D and the soprano break is at F and then mezzos have breaks at E or Eb. that's 4 #and my brain is used to the 8 prt choral satb system and the alto 2s (most of whom are mezzos and not contraltos) are Not the same as sop 2 #(and like 'light lyric mezzo' vs 'dramatic mezzo' no shut the fuck up. there should just be another classification)#also the lower voice types get 3 low ones and then an androgynous one and if a contralto is already characterized by an androgynous tone #then there should be 3 other ones too for symmetry #i am just mostly making shit up though #the fach system seems to work well for opera! and i don't understand it enough to seriously critique it. but most people don't sing opera #but since ppl (esp western ppl) always want to know their category even when it doesn't matter or is actively unhelpful #*i* think we should come up with a better contemporary system #sorry for the essay in these tags poor nia has had enough in her dms #kade speaks

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opera-ghosts · 24 days

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Today a performance of Meyerbeers Grand Opera „Les Huguenots“ 1891. This performance was the Debut from Lillian Nordica at The Metropolitan Opera.

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mlle-christine-nilsson · 1 year

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1871 Handel's Messiah CHRISTINA NILSSON Program Handel and Haydn Society Boston.

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kecobe · 1 year

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The Voice of Eileen Farrell

#Eileen Farrell #sopranos #dramatic sopranos #American sopranos

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twistedtreeau · 2 years

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warrior cats is. a drama right? like fantasy xenofiction but its a drama

#i think it is #its certainly dramatic #like sopranos and breaking bad are dramas. it feels weird to group warrior cats in with them but they're all dramas. i think #outside of animal fiction. thats the sort of fiction i consume #fuck it im just gonna call it a drama

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joansutherlandfan · 9 months

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“When one is singing high and loud it’s as though one is in light air, high upon a mountain. I feel a lightness and dizziness. Exhilaration too. I’ve never smoked marijuana, but I fancy it might be the same sort of feeling.”

Joan Sutherland

Portrait as Lucia di Lammermoor. Feb 1959.

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hannibal-or-maybe-just-rex · 1 month

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Lise Davidsen (born 8 February 1987, Stokke Norway) is an opera singer, lyric dramatic soprano.

#lize davidsen #opera singer #soprano #lyric dramatic soprano #the metropolitan opera #la forza del destino #leonora

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