#operablr

[unulf0]

sovre balze scoscesi e pungenti / il suo tempio la gloria sol’ hà

my personal take on goffredo from rinaldo!

my rinaldo adaptation’s inspired by mughal art and chess, and all the characters are meant to be chess pieces. he’s the black queen- in charge, vital to our hero’s side, though he doesn’t come into play ( so to speak ) until later on.

because of A Dream I Had ( and i’m not kidding ), i based his appearance off anthony roth costanzo and uh. uhmmmmmm. uh. sir. hello.

[crustaceousfaggot]

Italian art song: I am either in love or recently out of love, either way I will be sighing and languishing about it

German art song: Sometimes... I like to go down to the lake.... And look at the swans.... And think about how I am going to die

French art song: It is SPRINGTIME, who wants to go outside and FUCK A TULIP????

[elviracore]

*googling* how to make opera director hate women less

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

How successful would The Queen of the Night…

Propaganda for the mic skills:

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[thedupshadove]

You are the director-in-residence of an artistically-successful but financially-precarious opera company. The wealthy eccentric on whose donations you depend for solvency has threatened to withdraw their support unless you stage a completely genderswapped production of one of the following choices

*If you want to do one of these, you have to do them both

[bluberimufim]

The coolest thing about opera is that most of them have existed for actual centuries and people have just run out of normal ways to stage them. You either do something boring and predictable or you go off the fucking rails.

We've all been in this enclosure so long we've started losing our minds but we don't want to leave. In fact we want to see how much crazier we can get.

[questionable-idea]

Went to the opera for the first time and. Holy fucking shit.

I didnt pay a lot to be here why do I feel like a pompous aristocrat

[emjee]

I have another opera question for you, if you please!

So I saw the recent post you reblogged about the Met & it's depiction of rural America & that made me realize that perhaps another thing for me to consider wrt opera is that all but one of the productions I've seen have actually been at the Met. (& the opera experience I enjoyed the most was the one not at the Met.) So now I'm wondering if part of why some of those productions didn't hit for me was less about the operas themselves & more about the interpretation of them that I saw.

So I guess my question is: is there a house style at certain opera houses? Are there certain venues whose productions you'd recommend or certain directors, etc to look into?

This is a great question and I am going to toss it out to people with a lot more experience and knowledge of the current opera landscape than I have! I’m still getting the lay of the land wrt to this question myself and I think it’s super interesting (all of my live opera experience is with my local house and I don’t know much—yet!—about the international landscape).

All I can tell you is that currently I’m obsessed with the 2017 Aix-en-Provence production of Don Giovanni, which is on YouTube! I will also say I’ve enjoyed every filmed production from the Glyndebourne Festival that I’ve seen so far (Il Barbiere di Siviglia 2016 (I think), Le Nozze di Figaro 2012, and Don Giovanni 2010).

[issela-santina]

ENGLISH PATIENT GUY?!?!? DIRECTING A RUSSIAN OPERA?!?!?!? IN FRANCE!?!?!?!?!?

Screenshot from my Instagram with caption from Classic FM below:

Renowned actor Ralph Fiennes is directing his first opera at the magnificent Palais Garnier. In Paris next season, Fiennes will helm a new production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, conducted by maestro Semyon Bychkov.

[giaffa]

Sharing this Giuseppe Verdi meme i made for my friends. Use it responsibly.

[crustaceousfaggot]

If The Magic Flute were released today you just KNOW the Tumblr girlies would be absolutely losing it over Papageno. But not in a normal way, more like in the way people were obsessed with Spamton Deltarune.

[girlboccaccio]

Only honest answers. Open to anyone who -good for them - isn't it*lian, still any it*lian could spam it.

Other suggestions are welcomed on the tags, if someone is indecisive can put the various choices on the tags.

[carovisetto]

Mitridate, Re di Ponto at Garsiongton Opera, 2023. Photo by Julian Guidera

[gluecookie]

opera stream alert!!!

what? Trollflöjten, Ingmar Bergman version of die Zauberflöte

Where? Kosmi link

When? This Thursday 18.30 CET

Why? @spghtrbry and wanted to see die Zauberflöte and I want to rewatch this version. It's silly and I love the cut to live slug child reaction

CW: a White opera singer plays sarastro* in black face. Skip this watch along if you don't want to see that shit

*correction monostatos

[elviracore]

“what did you do instead of practice” oh i jerked off a lot. next question

[lyxchen]

Y'all it's so unfair, I went to the opera today and there was one singer who had such a beautiful voice and I looked up his Spotify and he doesn't have one :(( I'm so upset I just want to listen to him sing. Tbh I really want the songs from that opera I saw to be released Somewhere where I can listen to them, I'll even buy a CD, I don't care how I just need to listen to those songs sung by those singers on repeat, I'm not even kidding!!!!