#Rome Opera

[illustratus]

The Sacred Grove of the Druids, set design from Vincenzo Bellini's Opera ''Norma''

[reveuseinflorence]

O Fortuna

Velut luna

Statu variabilis

Semper crescis

Aut decrescis

- Carl Orff, Carmina Burana

[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.

[peppermintsandbones5]

I feel like epic poetry could be adapted well into opera

[baliisarda]

This is an old (I'm saying old but i's from october 2023 😭) illustration of mine but I just came across it again and wanted to share it!

(here is the original picture by the way)

[harrenhalyuri]

for fic purposes i'm gonna pretend the Eldar have their own version of classical music idc

[majorbullmoose]

They could just come out with an infinite series of Untitled Goose Game crossovers and I would play all of them:

It’s a beautiful day for The Phantom of the Opera and you are a horrible goose

It’s a beautiful Starry Night for Vincent and you are a horrible goose

It’s the Fall of Rome and you are a horrible goose

It’s a beautiful day in Giza for the Egyptian Pyramid Workers and you are a horrible goose

It’s a beautiful last day of Earth in Tadfield and you are a horrible goose

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: Composer and master orchestrator Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936) watches as one of his greatest masterpieces, the famous tone poem “Pines of Rome,” receives its world premiere in Rome exactly 100 years ago. Respighi is widely recognized hailed as one of the greatest orchestrators in history -- but few people are aware that he actually studied with the man who literally “wrote the book” on modern orchestration, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908), for several months in Russia during 1900-1901. Respighi's remarkable gift for orchestration is on resplendent display in his most famous work, a celebrated trilogy of tone poems centered on Rome and entitled “Fountains of Rome” (1917), “Roman Festivals” (1928), and of course the famous "Pines of Rome.” While the entire trilogy remains popular, the lushly scored “Pines of Rome” is easily the most frequently performed and recorded out of all of Respighi’s works; indeed, it is arguably one of the most popular purely orchestral works ever written by any Italian composer, period! PICTURED: A beautiful large photographic portrait of Respighi which he signed and inscribed to a friend in 1931. The friend in question was Alberto De Angelis (1885 - 1965), a writer and journalist who covered musical matters in Italy. The inscription reads: "Ad Alberto De Angelis in ricordo d’una gradita visita ai 'Pini'" ("To Alberto De Angelis in memory of a welcome visit to the 'Pines'"), an apparent nod to his own "Pines of Rome."

[elegantballetalk]

Today’s watch:

1932, Excerpts of classes given by Italian maestro Nicola Guerra at the “Teatro Reale dell’Opera di Roma” in 1932. (Now simply called Teatro dell’Opera di Roma)

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

by Giorgio Fuentes

[elucubrare]

one of the weirdest media experiences for me is when there's a clear Choice that's been made but i can't even start to explain why - i'm good at evaulating whether a Choice works or falls short of what it seems like it's trying to do in a work, but sometimes there's an element that someone put a lot of effort into and couldn't have done accidentally but it's just not even touching what seems like the thematic thrust of the rest of it --

most recent is the post-apocalyptic game where the evil upper class wears full 1780s French aristocrat clothes (sure, good, seems like a lot of work to produce, but it makes some thematic sense) but some fancy areas of the city are 1920s high society and others are, like, 1880s, and this is supposed to be doing something, i know it, but i'll be dammed if i know what.

[theartoftheprompt]

The color of the night is rainbow 🌈🌈

[spockvarietyhour]

Rome (2005) starring Ciaran Hinds as Julius Caesar

[clemsfilmdiary]

Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia (2016, Fiona Shaw, François Roussillon)

Conductor: Leo Hussain

5/11/24Gl

[wooahiexist]

Gonna put these together 🌝

Oliver takes the place of Meg Giry and Lawrence take’s Raoul’s role (No this ain’t gonna be a love triangle story I do not like those types of stories genuinely.) They’re very great friends along with Astra

THEN THE MANAGERS GOSH I LOVE THESE DESIGNS!!! They’re like the type to fight a lot though Rome has a more soft nature and doesn’t panic over small stuff unlike Mozamburke

[cartridgeconverter]

Since our good friend Titus Flavius Vespasianus seems to have been the focus of the current @operabracket scuffle, I decided I'd do a study of one of his marble busts for funsies. Remember, a vote for Tito is a vote for world, or rather operablr, peace. And also for mercy and the good of Rome or whatever.