#Operablr

[elviracore]

*googling* how to make opera director hate women less

[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.

[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

[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).

[giaffa]

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

[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.

[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

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[issela-santina]

every time I revisit the scene where Floria Tosca stabbed Vitellio Scarpia, I think of what if she stabbed him more than once and/or twisted the knife because only God knows how badly he's pissed her off

and then I remember once upon a time a soprano couldn't get the knife on cue so she ended the baritone's stage presence with a fork instead

Scarpia's blood vessels getting forked like pasta stuffed inside a chicken. an intrusive thought

[skeleton-richard]

Honestly if an opera doesn't leave you a little bit deranged was it even a good opera.

[bluberimufim]

Is the brooding jester painting even about Rigoletto or did everyone just wake up one day and decide to assign it to him?

[bluntforceyearning]

First time at the opera, watching La Boheme with my dearest @purple-amaranthe

[elviracore]

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

[emjee]

Since one of the fun things about opera is finding singers you like and going “oh time to go listen to everything they’ve ever recorded” everyone tell me about your faves so they can also become my faves

[figarotrilogy]

just dreamt of working at an italian opera themed restaurant called Largo al Factotum and customers were just like "uhhhh can I get a cavaradossi steak with fries"

[crustaceousfaggot]

Just watched Barber of Seville for the first time (the 1988 recording with Cecilia Bartoli and Gino Quilico). Was anyone gonna tell me how much of a bisexual menace Figaro is in this one