#I'm a mezzo-soprano

[withswords]

hey, any followers or follower-in-laws with a) an american accent, b) an adequate mic setup, c) an interest in lending their voices to a narrative podcast, please get in touch!

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give me mezzos or give me death.

well maybe not death but severe annoyance in the amount of productions casting tenors/countertenors in roles that were written for mezzos or sopranos.

[hayleylovesjessica]

Marina Viotti, mezzo-soprano

[everysongineverykey]

contraltos and countertenors are genuinely the backbone of the music industry

[bobcat-pie]

was told my songsona would be Bust Your Kneecaps because it's "threatening yet feminine." I'm flattered by the first bit, but, the second? ...oi!!!

[supercantaloupe]

gd i have the weirdest set of skills when it comes to music

[witchyorangutan]

Jane Doe :(

theatre kids of tumblr. reblog this with that one role you know you’d be good for but you’ll never get

for me it’s hermes from hadestown. also maybe skimbleshanks but i think i could get that one if local theatre group did cats.

wow you guys LOVE this post i’ve gotten like 10 notes in the past ten minutes. i’d like to add that i would make an AMAZING orpheus because my range is the same and also i play guitar. unfortunately they do not love the concept of orpheus being a transmasc teenager. so

[t0rschlusspan1k]

I'm definitely going to start working on this one, along with "Who Knew" by P!nk. Starting today. I had other projects but these two songs fit my mood much better than the other rock/metal songs I had in mind.

Louder, louder The voices in my head Whispers taunting All the things you said Faster the days go by and I'm still Stuck in this moment of wanting you here Time In the blink of an eye You held my hand, you held me tight Now you're gone And I'm still crying Shocked, broken I'm dying inside Where are you? I need you Don't leave me here on my own Speak to me Be near me I can't survive unless I know you're with me Shadows linger Only to my eye I see you, I feel you Don't leave my side It's not fair Just when I found my world They took you, they broke you, they tore out your heart I miss you, you hurt me You left with a smile Mistaken, your sadness Was hiding inside Now all that's left Are the pieces to find The mystery you kept The soul behind a guise Where are you I need you Don't leave me here on my own Speak to me Be near me I can't survive unless I know you're with me Why did you go? All these questions run through my mind I wish I couldn't feel at all Let me be numb I'm starting to fall Where are you? I need you Don't leave me here on my own Speak to me Be near me I can't survive unless I know you're with me Where are you? Where are you? You were smiling... You were smiling... You were smiling...

Kelly Clarkson, Haunted (My December, 2007)

[strangeandinteresting]

actually it is very cool and sexy of me to move songs for sopranos so far down the octave they're in an alto range hee hee

[asmuchasidliketo]

#ennio motherfucking morricone babyyy!!! #also listen to the ukulele orchestra of great britain's cover sometime tags by @thestuffedalligator

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Apollo’s various romantic (?) exploits

[unholylevitation]

My mom only asked that I sing for her birthday so I sang musical numbers for an hour after doing a few arias and there is truly no ego boost like your mom crying because she loves your voice so much.

I may be rusty but I've still got it enough that my sister insisted she be on face time for the arias and my grandma made my mom put her on speakerphone to listen LMAO.

I still got her a gift but it was definitely anti climatic compared to her reaction to me fucking around with some songs.

[verothexeno]

I love bass singers. Imma die for bass singers. I wanna be a bass singer. I LOVE BASS SINGERS!!!!!!!!!

[isaddeos]

excellent. Dw i put the names in the alt text

opera singer tierlist. Yes or no. Yes

[misconceivedcapricorn]

I want to do musical theatre but I only can sing and I suck ass acting and dancing 

[undying-love]

Paul's grief over time: A Compilation

“During the session [in 1981] Paul fell into a lugubrious mood. He said, ‘I’ve just realized that John is gone. John’s gone. He’s dead and he is not coming back.’ And he looked completely dismayed, like shocked at something that had just hit him. ‘Well, it’s been a few weeks now.’ He said, ‘I know, Eric, but I’ve just realized." (Eric Stewart)

“It’s still weird even to say, ‘before he died’. I still can’t come to terms with that. I still don’t believe it. It’s like, you know, those dreams you have, where he’s alive; then you wake up and… 'Oh’.” (Paul, 1986)

"Occasionally, it wells up. Y'know, and I'm at home on the weekend suddenly and I start thinking about him or talking to the kids about him and I can't handle it." (Paul, 1987)

"Is there a record you like to put on just to hear John’s voice?" I ask Paul the next day. Paul looks startled. He fumbles. “Oh, uh. There’s so much of it. I hear it on the car radio when I’m driving.” No, that’s not what I mean", I persist. "Isn’t there a time when you just wish you could talk to John, when you’d like to hear his voice again?" For some reason, he instead responds to the original question.“Oh sure,” he says and looks a little taken aback. ‘Beautiful Boy". (1990)

"Also not obvious is that McCartney [for the Liverpool Oratorio] has penned a gorgeous black-spiritual-like piece for mezzo-soprano that intones the last words spoken to John Lennon as he lay dying of gunshot wounds in the back of a New York police car -- "Do you know who you are?" McCartney gets a bit choked up at one point when he reveals, "Not a day goes by when I don't think of John.” (1991)

"Delicious boy, delicious broth of a boy. He was a lovely guy, you know. And it gets sadder and sadder to be saying “was”. Nearer to when he died I couldn’t believe I was saying “was”, but now I do believe I’m saying “was”. I’ve resisted it. I’ve tried to pretend he didn’t get killed." (Paul, 1995)

"Paul talked about John a a lot, but the strange thing was that it was in the present tense, “John says this" or "John thinks that. Very weird." (Peter Cox, 2006)

“John Lennon was shot dead in 1980. That totally knocked dad for six. I haven’t really spoken to him a lot about it because it is such a touchy subject." (James McCartney, 2013)

"It's very difficult for me and I, occasionally, will have thoughts and sort of say: "I don't know why I don't just break down crying every day? […] You know, I don't know how I would have dealt with it because I don't think I've dealt with it very well. In a way… I wouldn't be surprised if a psychiatrist would sort of find out that I'm slightly in denial, because it's too much." (Paul, 2020)

"Like any bereavement, the only way out is to remember how good it was with John. Because I can't get over the senseless act. I can't think about it. I'm sure it's some form of denial. But denial is the only way that I can deal with it." (Paul, 2020)

"When I talked to Paul about John and when he missed John most, he couldn't answer me for a long time and his eyes teared up. And I asked him where he thinks about John and when John comes into his mind and he just … he lost it, he completely lost it." (Bob Spitz, 2021)

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The following two are from the gossip website Datalounge, so they may or may not be true. Still interesting though:

"The one time I was ever actually in a room with Paul, zillion people between me and him (and no way I'm gonna bother him, all of us who travel in celeb circles have people we're fans of and all of us inexplicably try to hide it to seem "cooler"), he started talking loudly about himself and John, and how hard it was not to have him there. I remember him saying something along the lines of not a day passing that John's not still in it with him, but it's not like he can pick up a phone and say, "Hey, just needed to hear your voice today," and even when he got craggy responses, he still missed them. He misses it all, and it's bothering to him that he misses him more as time goes on -- it doesn't heal, he just learns new ways to bandage the wound."

“Since everyone is anonymous here, I guess I can give a bit of info I got from a female friend of mine who at one time worked as one of Paul’s assistants. [...] She does not know for certain if John and Paul were involved but she suspects it since to this day whenever John’s name is brought up he acts in her words ‘like a widow’ and he also addresses John in present tense. He would say things like, ‘John thinks that the music should be like this,’ and during his bitter divorce from Heather he was saying, ‘John says that this is getting nasty.’ Kind of creepy." (this one actually seems very intriguing because it sounds very similar to what Peter Cox said, about Paul often talking about John in the present tense, saying "John says.." or "John thinks...")