#Adriana Lecouvreur

[tenorissimi]

FRANCO CORELLI 20 anni della sua Scomparsa 💐🙏💐 RIP 🙏

29.X.2003

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[opera-shitpost]

Been a while since I made opera memes, innit

[doyouknowthisopera]

[girlscarpia]

This 🤝 confrontation scene from Maria Stuarda

[mstanyawinslow]

[liricamundi]

FRANCO CORELLI

With RENATA TEBALDI

Adriana Lecouvreur, Gioconda, Turandot, Tosca, La Forza del Destino...

[4operalove]

FRANCO CORELLI nei panni di Maurizio di Sassonia ne *Adriana Lecouvreur* , CILEA

[artiemestieri]

[widevibratobitch]

are yall alright? like in the head?

[tenorissimi]

FRANCO CORELLI in

BELLINI's Norma as Pollione, Arena di Verona. Copyright ©️ Arena di Verona.

BELLINI's Norma as Pollione,

BELLINI's Norma as Pollione, Terme di Caracalla. Copyright ©️ Terme di Caracalla.

PUCCINI's Turandot as CALAF with Birgit Nilsson.

PUCCINI's Turandot as CALAF with Birgit Nilsson.

PUCCINI's Turandot as CALAF with Birgit Nilsson. Edition: Luz Butron Soprano.

PUCCINI's Turandot as CALAF with Birgit Nilsson. Copyright ©️ LIFE Magazine.

CILEA's Adriana Lecouvreur as Maurizio with Renata Tebaldi.

CILEA's Adriana Lecouvreur as Maurizio with Renata Tebaldi

CILEA's Adriana Lecouvreur as Maurizio with Ettore Bastianini.

[opera-shitpost]

Nothing like a soprano VS mezzo operatic catfight amirite

[verdiesque]

I think I'll reread Racine while I'm at it

[suetravelblog]

Christmas Concert Zagreb Philharmonic

Christmas Concert Zagreb Philharmonic

[mstanyawinslow]

[leporellian]

Every so often (usually on twitter, or at least last i remember because i haven't been there in like a year.) the meme of 'what if (movie) but a muppets version' goes around, and opera people naturally start applying this to opera. So people will start casting muppets in operas or asking 'who would be the one human in this opera'. This is fine and good except that dramaturgically it is a betrayal of the concept of the Muppets. The section of Muppet movies that are 'muppets do this famous story' is really quite small, and out of them only one (The Muppet Christmas Carol natch) is really notable.

This is because Muppets are very specifically a loving homage of vaudevillian theatre and the early golden age of Hollywood. They match those tropes and archetypes perfectly. That's also why attempts to update the Muppets to be 'more modern and relevant' often fail unless they hearken back to that era, the Muppets are actually a very specific brand of humor that doesn't easily translate especially as the early to mid 20th century becomes something less and less people actually lived through.

REALISTICALLY a GOOD and NOT LAME Muppet movie about opera would have them RUNNING an opera house, with the actual plot being about backstage operations, and it would be a homage to the 1920s-1960s era of opera houses, which have a lot of the same archetypes as Vaudeville and early Hollywood. Plus that would kind of give a tinge of the 'nostalgia factor' that Muppet productions used to have, because when Muppet stuff came out people actually remembered the golden age of Hollywood from their childhoods. However if we really HAVE to do the 'omg what if muppets cast in this' thing, which again has only worked well Once for One Muppet Movie, we would need an opera that plays on those archetypes we see from that era of theatre. Maybe even an opera that was written early in the thick of it and deliberately plays into those archetypes both on and off the stage. And it has to be something that has a very tight plot, so it doesn't devolve into pure filler (sorry Adriana Lecouvreur).

This means there's only ONE correct answer to this question of what opera would make the best Muppet movie. And that is that Miss Piggy was born to play Floria Tosca.

[thycursed]

Why is Opera music so slept on?? Where is more???

I just had the most mind-scrunching, toe-curling, eye-drenching, stomach-dropping experience as I listened to the climax of "Un bel dì vedremo"

Anyway, opera recommendations - they may be basic but don't be a snob add your own instead. Also only partial title because they can be too long for me to type out.

Puccini: Madama Butterfly, Act 2: "Un bel dì vedremo"

Barcacolle (the one with the lady's face on the cover)

Celia: Adriana Lecouvreur, Act 1: "Ecco, respiro appena...."

Puccini: La boheme, Act 3: "Donde lieta usci al tou...."

Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Act 3: "Belle nuit, o nuit d'amour"

The Flower duet (you'll probably recognise this one)

Yes, I do have a Maria Callas bias. Listen to her songs though, she has pipes.