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Operablr Pride Month 2024 Week #2 (June 8-14)

Juditha Triumphans (Vivaldi/Cassetti) Keywords: Oratorio, lesbians, Italian opera, baroque, Biblical stories

Champion (Blanchard/Cristofer) Keywords: Modern opera, opera in English, bisexual character, American opera

I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Bellini/Romani) Keywords: Italian opera, bel canto, trouser roles, sapphic, Shakespeare

Summaries, libretti, recommended productions, and more under the line! (Disclaimer: I have not necessarily seen all the productions recommended here. Most of them are those that have been recommended to me.)

Juditha Triumphans

Libretto: Latin/Italian (Translate enabled) Summary: https://baroque.boston/vivaldi-juditha Production recs: Opera on Vidoe search link: Juditha Triumphans Vivaldi - Opera on Video Bonus: Some analysis of the opera and story: https://notesfromthegarrett.com/opera/vivaldi-antonio/juditha-triumphans https://www.wrti.org/wrti-spotlight/2024-03-07/vivaldis-juditha-triumphans-composed-for-an-all-women-ensemble-is-a-window-into-a-world

Champion

Libretto: (too new!) Summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champion_(opera) Production recs: The only fully filmed one I know of is the Met 2023 one. Can be watched on Met On Demand (see free trial) but is also on VK. Bonus: Commentary, info, & analysis from Lyric Opera Chicago: Champion | Lyric Opera of Chicago Bonus bonus: Info on the roles and creation of the opera: Metropolitan Opera | The Opera's Plot and Creation (metopera.org)

I Capuleti e i Montecchi

Libretto: Italian (translate enabled) Summary: https://www.opera-arias.com/bellini/i-capuleti-ed-i-montecchi/synopsis/ Production recs: Barcelona 2016 San Fransisco 2014 Opera on Video search link: I Capuleti e i Montecchi Bellini - Opera on Video Bonus: Julie Fuchs on the characters in the opera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCbCaoia5HY

[playitaagain]

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sloppy kisses at the corners of someone’s mouth.

JJ doesn’t really know how he ended up with someone so smart, but Pope rattles facts off like they’re nothing and JJ is sure he’d be able to win Jeopardy if he ever got on the show. For now though, JJ was simply impressed by the fact his boyfriend was going to graduate school and was considering getting a PhD after. It left JJ with a lot of bragging to do. 

“Fuck man, why the hell don’t you just marry this guy already.” 

The comment comes from one of his coworkers at the garage (a surprising and unexpectedly accepting group of people) when JJ is off chatting about Pope’s first day of graduate school. The coworker - Will- was one of his closer friends at the garage and even attended Pope’s graduation party only a few months ago. He was one of the few JJ had been nervous about when he first started, wondering if he’d have a problem with JJ dating another man, but he ended up being the most supportive of the group, even yelling at one or two of the guys who grumbled a bit when the word eventually got back to them that they’re coworker was very gay and very much so in love with his best friend, who was a male. 

The words toss around in his head for days after that. What if he asked Pope to marry him? JJ had never really seen himself getting married, but he also never saw himself getting off the island, finding someone who loved and supported him. He was sure as a teenager that he would end up miserable and alone. 

He comes to the conclusion three weeks later that he’s going to ask Pope to marry him. 

He doesn’t really have a plan. He ends up calling John B up and asking for advice but he’s a bit clueless and JJ ends up calling Kie instead. It’s maybe a mistake because she simply gushes over the phone and tells him that he’ll know the right time to propose. Neither of his friends are very helpful, but both insist that Pope will say yes and that does ease some of his nerves. 

(Because sometimes he still thinks Pope will leave, will realize that he isn’t worth the time and effort, realize he’s broken beyond repair. He wouldn’t blame him either, because he knows he doesn’t deserve this but he was going to hold on for dear life.) 

He freaks out over it a bit, trying to figure out what the heck to do until he realizes that he doesn’t need to really do anything. Pope wouldn’t want some big proposal. He’d just want a quiet night with the two of them and JJ goes about making the night special without making it obvious. 

He chooses one of the nights that they cook together. Pope is happy and cheerful when he gets back from work (volunteer tutoring because he gets Wednesday off from his internship at the morgue) and he goes about putting his stuff away before he joins JJ in the kitchen with a kiss on the cheek. 

JJ has all the ingredients out so he’s prepared when Pope comes home and the two go about getting everything ready, moving around each other in an easy, practiced dance. It’s only when the food is in the oven and they’ve fallen onto the couch for a break that Pope turns to him with a smile. “Why’d you choose one of my favorites tonight?” 

“I thought it would be a nice surprise,” JJ answers. It’s only part of it but JJ was trying not to give away that he had a ring hidden away and he was planning on asking tonight. Pope is satisfied with the answer though and rewards him with a deep kiss that promises a nice night. 

The night goes pretty easily after that. They talk about Pope’s day over dinner and he excitedly talks about some of his younger kids, how much progress they’ve made since the beginning of the year. JJ listens to him intentently, probably a little love struck but Pope just smiles and keeps going. JJ washes the dishes after dinner and pulls out some pastries from the one of their favorite bakeries, one of their first adventures when they moved to Boston for school. 

Pope smiles in surprise and the happy look on his face, the love on his eyes, has JJ asking before he even planned to. 

He doesn’t get on one knee. He simply sits across from Pope and takes his hands in his. He looks into those dark eyes he loves so much, smiling at the curious crinkle on Pope’s brow. 

“I had a whole speech planned but I honestly forget when you smiled at me,” JJ starts with a nervous laugh, because yeah, he practiced his speech in the mirror but he doesn’t really remember his speech. He’s always been good at winging it though. 

“I don’t know how I got this lucky because I wasn’t supposed to leave that island. I wasn’t supposed to have this life, but then I met you. You made me realize I could have this life and then I realized I wanted this life with you and you made me realize I could have this life with you. I couldn’t believe that you kissed me back that day you got your acceptance letter because I didn’t think I deserved it, deserve you, but you always make me feel like I do, like I’m special. I don’t know much about life, but I do know I want to be with you for the rest of mine. So, will you marry me?” 

He can see the tears in Pope’s dark eyes, waits with bated breath. Pope doesn’t say anything at first though, lunges forward and misses his lips, and kisses the corner instead, messy but radiating happiness before he pulls away. 

“Yes! I love you,” Pope says and suddenly JJ is crying as he pulls Pope into a bone crushing hug, laughing with happiness. 

He stays like that till he realizes he doesn’t have the ring and he hurries off, not answering Pope’s curious gaze as he rummages through the junk drawer in the kitchen and pulls a box out from the back. 

Pope is laughing when he comes back, slipping the simple gold band onto his finger. The smile on Pope’s lips is irresistible and now he is the one missing, kissing the corner of Pope’s lips with a laugh. He’s too happy to care as he pulls Pope into another hug.

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[swan2swan]

I actually did a Star Wars again today. Casually watched Book of Boba Fett while setting up and playing a game of X-wing on the lovely mat I got for Christmas...

...and I can’t believe Temuera Morrison and Ming-Na Wen got stuck in THIS. 

Can’t believe the Space Vespa gang that drew me in with their lovely colors is being surrounded by THIS. 

That all the Tuskens got tastelessly slaughtered for THIS.

I rant about The Last Jedi more than I should (a lie), but at least that movie didn’t have a desperate need to be associated with Star Wars. I mean, that’s also its problem...but...like......

...it started with someone saying “E chu ta!”, which made me go “OHHH like they said in the orignal movies!!! Ohhhh!”, because they were Very Clever. There were a few other points that made me sigh or give a strained smile (there’s a whole fight with electro-prods and shields that would have REALLY been over quickly if one of them had just pulled out a blaster pistol and shot it at Boba Fett’s Temura-Morrison-Screentime head, but...), but the point where I actually decided “Oh, no, this is Bad, Actually” was the part where Boba Fett is gifted a new pet rancor. 

Like...not a Krayt Dragon or Kell Dragon or Gundark or Chandrilan Wuffabeast, but a rancor. Just a fresh rancor. Three episodes into the show. Not even a month into the show, and we’re...getting a rancor. In the rancor pit. Of the crime lord’s palace. On Tatooine. Just another rancor. Where the last one died. A rancor. A brand-new rancor. To replace the old rancor. 

It’s uncreative and boring. and I hate it. 

This is a tailor-made attack on my taste. It’s the same thing that had me foaming at the mouth over Snoke doing the whole “watch your fleet be destroyed!” bit that Palpatine did, which they did again in the very next movie with Palpatine himself...like, guys. Guys. New stories! You just did a whole saga of a dude carrying a baby! People loved it! You can do LITERALLY ANYTHING. You can put ANYTHING YOU WANT in that giant pit. Boba can turn it into a WINE CELLAR, and the fans will love a whole episode devoted to the tense question of “will Boba Fett win the biannual Mos Espa wine auction???” If you structure it right, if you hire the right wrtiing team...yeah, that’ll be awesome!

It’s garbage but I do love my colorful space vespas and also that tall Twi’lek woman. There’s some fun stuff. 

But that RANCOR--

[laynemorgan]

I'm sure you've already provided it, but I'd be curious to hear your road to becoming a staffed writer. What first got you interested in it? Does it go back to school days?

Man it goes back far. I mean, I guess in some ways it doesn't. Since you asked more about what got me interested in where it goes back to, I'll give you the lest technical and more biographicl explanatin. My first goal was just to become a writer. I've been writing since I was a really little kid. I actually recently found journals from like the elementary and middle school days just filled with them. And it was never small scale, I'd always be planning out the whole fucking setting, how all the characters were connected, full universes. I made a fake fantasy. land in my backyard because my parents live on a lot of land. I called it Teleterania. I remember very little about it besides that that was the name hahah but I did do it!!! Everything I read only made me want to write. Everything I watched made me want to write.

Sometime around late middle school and early high school, I started watching more TV. I found soap operas and was OBSESSSED with their flare for drama. I found BTVS, Charmed, Smallville, Veronica Mars, OTH, etc. And all of those shows really got me actually looking at TV in a way I had never before. I got obsessed with their worlds and into their fandoms. I became the liek TV guy in my high school. There was even a group of girls I never got to really hang out with that would always call me over to their table to ask about what I knew about OTH stuff hahaha and 17 year old me thought that was awesome. Before my sister passed away, she and I took a road trip down to North Carolina to tour the One Tree Hill set. OTH was like the one thing that she and I agreed on. And it was so awesome. For me it was a first look at what the industry actually looked like, to see the sets and what went into it and all of that.

But I don't think my eyes really opened to actually WORKING in tv until college. I went to school for English Lit and Creative Writing in New Hampshire. My school had a great writing program and I was right at home there. i still credit my first writing professor who was only a grad student for really teaching me what I know about writing and editing and reading my own work for error and she passed me on to her favorite professor which was a hugely flattering moment for me. AND THEN -- I fell in love with PLL. And for me, that was really where shit started. I didn't realize it at the time and it wasn't even the show that did it it was what the show showed me. Through my tumblr at the time which had very little to do with fandom, I actually wound up running into Patrick Adams and Troian Bellisario. We all were always sharing each other's posts and at the time I was working for a journalist covering random TV out of a shitty free magazine in Boston doing work for peanuts. But I was going out to LA to meet up with a friend and we all decided to meet for lunch and they let me interview them for my magazine and stayed really rad people. They also helped boost my PLL photo recaps which I was doing at the time and those got the attention of the Director, Normal Buckley who asked me out to coffee and talked to me about my goals and what I was doing. He was the person who first really helped me understand that there's an approachability to the TV world that to me had always been this like magical hollywood bubble I didn't understand.

I went home THRILLED about LA, dropped out of college and set out to go to film school. From there, I hated film school because it was too technical adjacent, dropped out again, spent all the money I had on that move twice, and went home to boston broke and lost. I spent two years after that maybe more saving money, working in fandom, and waitressing while I went back to college online. That era wasn't super writing focused but it's where I found myself. I realized I was queer, I came out, I got into tumblr rpg, I met my fandom friends, I found tumblr fandom in a way I hadn't before. And then a couple years later I found tl100.

From there, the rest is kind of wonky. I had a big fan blog for the show and talked a lot about it on my twitter which lead me to many interactions with the writers who then invited me to dinner at comic con one year. I had a long talk with Shumway abut my goals and what I wanted to do with my life. I knew I wanted to be in TV somehow. I knew I wanted to be in writing somehow but I couldn't figure out how those two things aligned. I was doing a lot of journalism and critic stuff because that felt like the clsoest way to be both a fan and workin in the world I loved but it was really Kim and Shawna that opened my eyes to the ability to just .... be a TV writer. Film school had made me terrified of the wrtiing side but I think it was because film school was so much more about writing for film which I learned isn't my thing. But TV is a writers' medium, unlike film which is more fo a directors medium and suddenly I was like -- MIND BLOWN. It was everything I wanted in a career and married all of the things I loved. It was something that had previously felt like unattainable but they made it seem human and approachable.

They helped me get my first WPA job, I saved up 3 grand working and with the help of some friends and moved to LA to start that. And suddenly I was in a whirlwind of catching up on everything I felt like I had missed. I was reading scripts, learning what the process looked like, doing everything I coudl to figure out what being a TV writer looked like. After that job, I got another WPA job at Millar Gough on Into the Badlands and later Shannara.

THEN I got hired on Daybreak which I can fully credit with being a huge stepping stone for me and changing my life in a lot of ways. Aron was the best showrunner. He was educational and he taught us shit, he let us in the room, he let us write stuff, he let us pitch and try and fall on our faces and never judged us for it. My second season there he moved me up to writers assitant and patiently walked me through all the stuff I didn't know yet because he had faith in me and my voice and my ideas. He let me writ e afreelance episode that year and pitch it in the room and do all the things that real w riters get to do.

So after Daybreak season 2 got cancelled I was pretty ready to spend my next year or two just writing, finding an agent and moving forawrd. And then I got an email to go and work for Moira Walley Beckett. She was looking for an assistant with serious room experience to help develop something in a small room and stay on with her later. I took the job becuase she's MOIRA and I was stoked to learn from her and work for a woman for once. I ernded up very fortunate becuase a month later we were all surprised by the covid mess and I was fully employed that whole year while many people weren't which was a huge help. Moira was a STELLAR boss. I had thought I was ready and what she taught me was that ther's always so much more to learn. She walked me through the process of applying notes and taking notes and changing draft after draft of your story. SHe walked me through breaking a whole season of television. We had a great partnership for the year and I'm so grateful. And then that project didn't end up seeing hte light of day and we our separate ways as well.

Cut to a few months ago, I was still at home in Boston, post-covid, having been sick for most of january. My friend Rachel dared me to write a spec in a weekend for the Warner Bros fellowship deadline. So I did. It was a Legacies Spec. Given that we didn't have access to the WGA library because of the pandemic, Legacies was an easy and obvious choice. I had already seen it inside and out and didn't need as much access to learning a show from scratch. So I wrote what I loved, wrote a season 2 legacies spec that embraced my favorite things about legacies: the high school soap of one tree hill, Lizzie doing wild dialogue, buffy-esque monsters, and themes of grief and humanity.

AND THE REST you know.

Here we are. I'm still lost as fuck. I'm still running full speed through a world I don't always feel like I"m ready for. I'm still a perfectionist and an obsessive overworker. I still take notes I don't need to take and do work at 10pm and come in early and stare at the story boards. There's a whole journey in all of this about representation and coming to find myself and queer media and wanting to make more of it but that's one I don't feel like I can fully get into until I'm decades out of it and the world is truly made better. But I'm here. And it feels like the end of a journey and liek I'm standing at the edge of a brand new clif because I've only just started.

[smooshme]

I GOT 200/200

I HAD A FUCKIN GROUP PROJECT WHERE I CREATE MY OWN ADAPTATION OF THE CRUCIBLE AND I GOT SO INTO IT I HAD EVERYTHING DOWN (COSTUMES, SETS, ACTS, SCENES, CASTING) LITERALLY EVERYTHIG SHORT OF A SCRIPT WITHIN A WEEK AND I LOVE HER SO MUCH AND MY ENGLISH PROF WHO HAPPENS TO BE INTO THEATER AND WRTIES PLAYS ON HER TIME OFF SHE FUCKIN LOVED IT TOO YOU GUYS IM SHAKING FROM EXCITEMENT IM S O PROUD OF M E I LOVE STORYTELILING SO MUC HN  I FINALLY HAVE AN A IN THE CLAS S

[bpdjelly]

he blocked me on everything caus ei was too mcuh, I'm always too brokem fr anyone to love jelly and now im gettinh drunk at 1:23pm and i want to die. I've been wrtiing suicide notes all week and havent eaten in like 8 days/ ive lost 10 pounds and vverything hurts. im sorry. im sorry friend

hey anon, ,,ur not too broken for anyone to love. u may be broken but god i promise that doesn ot mean that no one can lvoe u. i prpmise. i’m sorry things have been so rough. he may not have been able to handle u but i promise u deserve someone who can take in everything that u ar e and still lvoes u more than anything. u deserve that.!!! if writing notes helps u cope, than please, write, write ur heart out but please odn’t go.. please take care o furself. get some rest and munch on something, anything, even if it’s small. this is going to be hard, it’s going to be so so rough and it’s going to feel long, but it’s going to be okay without him i promise!! u are strong and brave. thank u for being here. give it time, give urself all the time u need toheal. i will be here for u.

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