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tuttocenere · 1 year

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On disguises

It's much more fun if Donna Elvira immediately sees through the "Leporello in disguise as Giovanni" situation in the second act, and just goes along with it anyway.

Maybe she's just so desperately in love with Don Giovanni that she's willing to accept a substitute if she can't have the real thing. This plays out much like if she's actually tricked, but it's dirtier / sadder so I like it.

Or she actually likes Leporello more and knows it. He is a somewhat better person after all, and they sure have chemistry in the first act. But when they get caught together, she still ends up denouncing him in public. The most straightforward reason is the class difference: Servants can't marry, and noblewomen can't be wtih lower-class people. But we can imagine a lot of other respectability-related motivations why it could never work out. Romantic, tragic, nice.

Or she doesn't love either of the men all that much, but she's so touch starved that she doesn't really care who is wooing her. This could be played in a woman-hating way very easily, but I think it has potential because, well, who hasn't been there.

In all of these scenarios, her "mi tradi" aria that comes after those scenes has a lot more impact. It's not just her dealing with the fact that Don G is a bad person (she has known this from the start and has made her position clear already). It's also her coming to terms with the fact that either she really needs Don Giovanni and must make another attempt to get through to him (scenarios 1 and 3). Or it's her realizing how easy it is to fall into his abusive behaviour patterns, which gives her some new sympathy and causes her to start one last attempt to save him, and save herself (scenario 2).

I think if an opera character legitimately doesn't see through a disguise, that's usually a sign that he doesn't really know the other person all that well (cf. Carlos/Eboli, Almaviva/Susanna). And I just don't think that's a good fit for Elvira.

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charcoalsdestiny · 3 months

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HAPPY PRIDE MONTH EVERYONE!

this drawing may have taken all month, but its finally here!

These guys are all from my ROTTMNT AU, "Where There Is Hamato" (WTIH)

tumblr killed the quality, so closeups and headcanon breakdowns are under the cut! (though. my closeups are also a bit rough, tumblr hated how much this image was i guess.) please click for full saturation of colors!