#Opera Theatre

[esteemed-excellency]

Costume sketches for La Traviata, Milan, 1880

[lordkryze]

The phantom of the opera is there

Inside my mind

[wgm-beautiful-world]

The magnificent Margravial Opera House and theatre, Bayreuth GERMANY

[opera-ghosts]

This original postcard from 1908 shows all theaters that existed in Vienna at that time. Opera, concert and theater could be experienced in all their diversity and Vienna is an important center of culture to this day.

[trashpidgeon48]

Leitmotifs drive me insane, like I hear *repeated melody that has an association with a person, idea, or situation* and I go *tears up the fucking rug like a dog*

[puppetdaily]

The Creature from Frankenstein at Hamburg State Opera

[prokopetz]

The plot structures of movies need to start taking more cues from classic opera. Open with a fucker in a hat who directly addresses the audience and explains what's going on in a way that raises far more questions than it answers, then immediately drop the viewer into the middle of a shouting argument between three of the weirdest people you can possibly imagine.

[cy-lindric]

Le subterfuge de Chérubin

[langernameohnebedeutung]

ngl, I'm beginning to take issue with how in conversations about anti-intellectualism almost automatically, the face of girls and women will be slapped on the problem.

[lu-does-things]

How funny would it be if one of the Phantom of the Opera cast members decided to stay... under the stage... and torment every other production ever performed there...?

[fandom-s0up]

Reblog for larger sample size

[esteemed-excellency]

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

[artofnicolle]

[seraphica]

Playbills: A Broadway Poster Show

[void-of-unparalled-chaos]

The Literal Phantom of the Opera (DpxDc prompt)

When Cassandra Cain first began taking ballet, her fellow dancers quickly warned her about the ghost haunting the theater.

"He likes to watch us. I see him looking down at the stage from the catwalk all the time."

"It looks like he stole one of the Phantom of the Opera masks last time a tour came through, but its been covered in stars!"

"I heard him when I was acting in Wicked. I was alone in the green room doing some last minute practice and I swear he was humming along while I was singing!"

"It was the phantom who stole my makeup from my dressing room I just know it!"

"Haley from front of house didn't believe he existed until they came backstage to grab supplies for seat repairs. I don't know what they saw, but now they refuse to go backstage."

"That ghost is evil. It pushed me down the stairs to the office and I tore my suit on the railing. Do you know how hard it is to find an all white suit on short notice? I'm lucky it didn't break my ankle!"

"We used to have balconies before the renovations. Sometimes it sounds like someone is moving inside the walls where they used to be."

"I'm not sure that the ghost is fully aware we're performers. A few years ago when Heathers was here, the actress for McNamara said that it felt like someone was hugging her after Lifeboat."

"I've seen him without the mask. His face looks like it was just... shredded. I only saw it once, but I'll never forget that face."

"I heard that he likes to mess with the equipment in the control booth."

Cass isn't sure that the ghost is real, but she is sure that the other dancers think he's real. They often gossip about the theater ghost in hushed whispers, knocking on wood at the very mention of him. Her teachers prefer not to talk about the ghost at all, but they don't deny its existence.

It's not until she is practicing alone on stage and feels eyes on her that she thinks there might be something to the ghost rumors.

[theatrical-penguin]

That was fast!