#Mozart Opera

[cjbolan]

“I think we’re gonna have to kill this guy, Pamina.”

“Damn.”

Jumping on this meme with the Die Zauberflöte characters. Enjoy! Art by me.

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The Marriage of Figaro (ILe nozze di Figaro) Opera Art Sketchbook

The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le nozze di Figaro) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Artist Night Sketchbook. The San Diego Opera allows artists to come in during a dress rehearsal for a live sketch artist night. Artist night was from October 17, 2018.

The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le nozze di Figaro) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Artist Night Sketchbook. The San Diego Opera allows artists to come in during a dress rehearsal for a live sketch artist night. Artist Night was from October 17, 2018. These sketches were initially drawn as pencil on paper. Watercolor washes followed by pastel were added over the top. Art by Laurel Latto. The…

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Le subterfuge de Chérubin

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Night drive home from the theatre, discussing classical music and falling deeply in love

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[cjbolan]

@beckmesseringring​

Brünnhilde: Did we just become best friends?

Pamina: JAWHOL!

(just realized they’re both from German-language operas)

daughters being sent by their parents to kill a guy:

brünnhilde 🤝 pamina

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European musicals explained really badly:

Woman keeps seeing her imaginary friend well into adulthood. This ruins lives.

Rich guys new wife is obessed with his previous deceased wife. This is the only thing she and the housekeeper agree on.

Child prodigy realizes that being an adult sucks.

Village boy battles vampires and bisexuality.

Two kids decide that dying is better than enduring their families’ bullshit.

Girl just wants to perform in the Opera, forced into a love triangle where both men suck.

Adolescent girl is under a lot of pressure in her new school, starts talking to a statue in the garden.

Crownprince only has dysfunctional relationships and he is very sad about it.

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Late night sketch of Mozart from memory, because I love him. One would think I’d draw him more, as obsessed with him as I am. I used his own painted reference of the deformity in his left ear. Apparently he also had a little earring? It’s cute.

Mozart knew he was not particularly attractive so he made up for this by taking fastidious care of his appearance, being funny, and often placing his talent on display before himself.

[cjbolan]

What was your favourite part of Amadeus (1984)?

The scene where Mozart convinces the Emperor and his Court to allow “Marriage of Figaro”. It’s a great character-establishing moment, showing what makes Mozart different and his different standings with each Court member.And as someone in the film industry, I found that scene super relatable...

I know what it’s like when creatives and financiers have to compromise over what’s entertaining vs. what’s acceptable. I think it’s also relevant to today’s growing Internet censorship, as the Emperor’s Court initially disapproved “Marriage of Figaro” simply because of the story.

2nd favorite has to be the Emperor’s “too many notes” . His delivery and Mozart’s reaction are so funny, and the costumes in that scene are amazing!!

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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.

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The Countess and Susanna in "The Marriage Of Figaro" by Mozart, sapphic version

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Well since yall have brought my attention back to my post, I may as well add another, and probably cooler reference. In the end, when Holmes arrives and Kitty basically comes to save the day, the background music is shortened orchetral part of the finale of Don Giovanni, which shows Giovanni's downfall and death, as he is being dragged into Hell to be punished for his sins.

(I still love the first one mentioned more as the aria is one of my favorites from Don Giovanni)

Also I would've just reblogged, but it won't let me add the clip lol

And also almost full story explained below

Just to clarify the basic storyline of DG. The opera starts with Giovanni trying to seduce donna Anna. Well lets just say that does not go according to the plan and results in Giovanni killing Commendatore, Anna's father. Anna and her fiancé swear to have their revenge on Giovanni and not to mary until the former is achieved. Giovanni tries to seduce another woman later in the story, also while being pursued by donna Elvira one of his many former mistresses, who hopes he will come back to her. Giovanni doesn't want to, since he just wants to vontinue with his not really a boyfriend material lifestyle.

(Also reffering to the beginning, everywhere is said "seduce" I would think it is not about seducing as he is just trying to escape from her fucking house while she wants to unmask him. And I won't believe she is just "so much into him that she doesn't want him to leave". But yeah, that on your own interpretation I guess, since many stage productions put it simply like this. In my mind she just stopped her assailant and she hates his guts for everything he has done)

So the ending comes like this. Giovanni and his servant Leporello are at the cemetery. Giovanni sees the late Commendatore's statue and invites him over to dine with him. To his surprise and terror, the statue actually shows up and offers him a handshake. Giovanni accepting the handshake and refusing to repent dies, being dragged to Hell. Anna and her fiancé eventually get married, Zerlina and her husband are happy together and Elvira decides to join a convent.

The subplot with Zerlina, the woman Giovanni wants to seduce and Elvira I will leave out to simplify the story, as well as some other things. But if you are interested, look it up, youtube has many excelent recordings of the whole production.

(I would reccomend an older one though, since it usually portrays the opera set in the original time period and doesn't include conceptional and contemporary direction and scenic elements, therefore makes it a good starting point for opera newbies. Nothing against contemporarily produced performances, but if you want to get familiar with the source material and don't want to pre-read everything, those can make it harder to grasp what is actually going on.)

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Do the tumblrinas know about Le Nozze di Figaro (1786, Mozart/Da Ponte)

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Scene from Mozart's Opera, La clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus)

by Giorgio Fuentes

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