#french opera house

[labellenouvelle]

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[travsd]

Six Days in New Orleans: One

Originally posted November 5, 2015. I crossed a certain catastrophic birthday threshold the other day and to ease the sting the Mad Marchioness took me for a 6 day debauche in the heart of Crescent City. The Mad Marchioness: I think I’ll keep her. I’ve admired New Orleans from afar for well over half my life. I’ve researched it obsessively. I find everything about it significant or fascinating…

[ancientsstudies]

Opéra Garnier by jbperraudin.

[emaadsidiki]

Garnier Palace ❁𓂅 𓄼ꕤ༘ Paris

[postcard-from-the-past]

The Parisian Opera House

French vintage postcard

[andreai04]

He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.

[jessfandrawer]

...Only small actors. - Konstantin Stanislavski

[tikitania]

Myriam Ould-Braham in POB’s Sleeping Beauty (excerpts)

One of my favorite telegram ballet bloggers is a Russian ballet writer living in Paris, so I get her takes on the POB through a Russian lens. Unlike a lot of Russians, she’s open to neoclassical and contemporary ballet and her knowledge runs deep. You can follow her on TG (Dance Writer’s World.) She recently wrote some informal thoughts about Ould-Braham upon retirement that I feel is worth sharing:

Today is the premiere of my beloved Inez Mackintosh, and I still can’t get my head around writing about Miriam Ould-Brahm’s farewell performance.

In fact, I repeat, she is not “my” ballerina. I personally don’t have enough temperament. But before arriving in France, I simply categorically did not like her, I did not understand why the star was there.

And when I saw her more than once on stage, I understood.

The French public adores her, I think also for her modesty. She is not a media star, she is not always on TV (like some), she does not write memoirs at the age of 20, and she is not active on Instagram. She is focused on work, and apparently on family.

But this is all secondary. The main thing is that her dance is incredibly pure. She won't show us her huge step, because it's not necessary. But instead, it will open your leg into alezgon in such a way that you will regret not recording it in molecules for the textbook. She has beautiful feet, a very strong upper turnout (she holds the same alezgon in the second act of Giselle simply with her heel into the audience), and School with a capital S. Everything is adjusted down to the millimeter. All five are closed. All is clear. Just sit and write a textbook from it. And this is really rare, even at the Opera. Where emotions often run wild. She didn't have many emotions, that's true. But a dance like hers is very rare now. When less is more. When you just want to see a person not with triple 64 fouettés, but who, even getting into a simple arabesque, finds poetry and beauty in it.

I am grateful to fate that she gave me the chance to see this ballerina.

[kinkander]

Opening ceremony of Paris opera house, 150 years ago Standing ovation for Charles Garnier, the architect.

[saviourkingslut]

not to be about opera again but to be about opera again. as an art form it has the reputation of being super stuffy and something for snobs who don't know how to have fun only but honestly this was one of, perhaps even THE main theatrical entertainment for centuries. i wish people knew how hard these things can go and how engaging they can be. like characters kill and die and fight wars and (almost) commit human sacrifice left and right. characters fall in love they mourn they're ecstatic they cry they're furious it's an extremely dramatic and emotional art form! and i understand that opera does not appear approachable bc of the general conventions of the art form but i promise old works can be fun and engaging if you go watch them with some preparation beforehand (reading the libretto helps) - not to mention not all operas are old bc there are so many modern operas which engage with topical events! also the music slaps.

[abrahamvanhelsings]

reading an academic article with a take so bad i don't want to highlight it bc it doesn't deserve it but i have to bc i know i'll need to refer to it later when i tear it to absolute shreds

[xbraveheartx]

Image credit to this youtube video of the song itself

Je t'ai rencontrée simplement | I met you simply Et tu n'as rien fait pour chercher à me plaire | And you did nothing to try and please me Je t'aime pourtant | Yet I love you D'un amour ardent | With an ardent love Dont rien, je le sens, ne pourra me défaire | Of which nothing, I feel, will be able to undo me Tu seras toujours mon amante | You will always be my lover Et je crois à toi comme au bonheur suprême | And I believe in you as in supreme happiness Je te fuis parfois, mais je reviens quand même | I run away from you sometimes, but I return all the same C'est plus fort que moi, Je t'aime | It's stronger than me, I love you

Interesting how this has been made to be the ending theme for the game, and in turn, the overarching theme woven through.

[queer-reader-07]

god i love opera but there are too many pretentious fucks who like opera too and i hate being associated with them

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Nightwish - The Phantom of the Opera 2002

"The Phantom of the Opera" is a song from the 1986 stage musical of the same name, based on the 1910 French novel of the same name by Gaston Leroux, which tells the tragic story of a beautiful soprano, Christine Daaé, who becomes the obsession of a mysterious, masked musical genius living in the subterranean labyrinth beneath the Paris Opéra House. The song was composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics written by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, and additional lyrics by Mike Batt. The song was originally recorded by Sarah Brightman and Steve Harley, which became a UK hit single in 1986, prior to the musical. Listen to it here! In its theatrical debut, it was sung by Brightman and Michael Crawford in their roles as Christine Daaé and the Phantom. Listen to it here! The Phantom of the Opera was the longest running show in Broadway history, and celebrated its 10,000th performance on February 11, 2012, becoming the first Broadway production in history to do so. It is the second longest-running West End musical, after Les Misérables, and the third longest-running West End show overall, after The Mousetrap. The original West End production at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, ended its run in 2020, its run cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band from Kitee. The band was formed in 1996 by lead songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former lead singer Tarja Turunen. The band soon picked up drummer Jukka Nevalainen, and then bassist Sami Vänskä after the release of their debut album, Angels Fall First (1997). In 2001, Vänskä was replaced by Marko Hietala, who also took over the male vocalist role previously filled by Holopainen or guest singers.

In 2002, Nightwish released Century Child, along with the singles "Ever Dream" and "Bless the Child". Century Child was certified gold two hours after its release, and platinum two weeks afterwards. It set a record on the Finnish album charts of most distance between a first place album and the second place. An enduring favorite of fans is the band's version of "The Phantom of the Opera". The song was routinely played in concerts until October 21, 2005, when vocalist Tarja Turunen was fired from the band and later replaced with Anette Olzon, whereupon the band announced that they would never play the song live again. This would hold true for 17 years until November 27 and 28, 2022, when Nightwish was joined by Dutch singer Henk Poort on stage at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam to perform the song. Marko Hietala joined Tarja Turunen at a couple of her solo shows in 2023 to sing "The Phantom of the Opera" with her. They are set to tour together in Spring 2024 in Latin America on Tarja's "Living The Dream – The Hits Tour".

"The Phantom of the Opera" recieved a total of 82,7% yes votes!

[postcard-from-the-past]

Opera house of Paris

French vintage postcard

[ink-ami]

Furina's own menacing aura

Based on one of Furina's voice lines shared by the official Twitter: "Fontaine's opera house has seen several reforms, and with each reform, opposition was to be expected. french people after all As I remember, crowds would often gather in the opera house making a ruckus... That one time, it became so loud my ears were ringing. I frightened them by stating, "I forbid anyone from discussing such pointless matters !", I clearly remember Neuvillette tapping his cane on the ground at that precise moment while the whole place immediately fell silent. Sometimes I can't help but inadvertently show my intimidating side... I hope my people understands."

The drawing's messy, even for a shitpost, but I have to sleep before tomorrow morning and pulling for our dear archon! I also have to work but give up on making my brain forget Genshin for two seconds.