#holländer

[gringolet]

rating whether polyamory would solve famous love triangle plots

Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot (Arthuriana): no because Mordred and Agravaine would not be let in on the mutual consent and would still try to catch Guinevere cheating

Tristan/Iseult/Mark (Tristania): absolutely not because Mark is Tristan’s uncle

Tristan/Iseult/Palomides (Tristania): absolutely yes because between Palomides and Iseult all of Tristan’s most unhelpful impulses would be balanced out

Peeta/Katniss/Gale (Hunger Games): polyamory alone cannot defeat an authoritarian dystopia

Cyrano/Roxanne/Christian (Cyrano de Bergerac): solves every problem in the first 3 acts, solves no problems in the 4th

Wesley/Buttercup/Humperdink (The Princess Bride): while Wesley would be happy living as buttercups side piece, the problem is no amount of mutual consent will fulfill prince humperdinks emotional need to be at war. so no

Orsino/Viola/Olivia (Twelfth Night): most of it yes as long as Sebastian fucks that pirate

Heathcliff/Catherine/Edgar (Wuthering Heights): Technically yes but they all have so many emotional issues that new problems would immediately arise and Catherine would still die of being stressed out by the whole thing

Mark Antony/Cleopatra/Caesar (Antony and Cleopatra): well vibes-wise they were probably all fucking in real life and clearly polyamory alone did not save the Roman Republic

Menelaos/Helen/Paris (The Iliad etc): polyamory alone CAN stop the Trojan war as long as the Greeks know Menelaos tops

Florence/The Russian/Svetlana (Chess): polyamory alone cannot stop the Cold War

The Dutchman/Sente/Erik (The Flying Dutchman): solves every interpersonal problem but would actively damn the Dutchman to wander the seas forever

Mathilde/Julien/Mme de Renal (The Red and the Black): a rare case where polyamory would make everything WORSE! Fucking two people at the same time would make poor asexual Julien even more miserable and more people would die. Mme de Renal’s guilt would be even more destructive. Mathilde would suicide bait everyone else involved.

Raoul/Christine/Erik (Phantom of the Opera): probably not but i want to say yes because its such a funny concept

Jacques/Severine/Roubaud (La Bête Humaine): no! Jacques would just sexually commit TWO murders

[issela-santina]

Senta: omg the shirts arrived

Dutchman: shirts?

Senta: [unpacks two oversized shirts, one of which she tosses to the Dutchman that says “I'm the flying Dutchman” and then another she tries on herself that says “I'm flying with the Dutchman”]

[fabledquill]

I just think all the terror girlies(gn) should get into The Flying Dutchman by Wagner because the main character is literally a woman who's been obsessed with the legend of a doomed sailor since she was little and then he appears in real life and tells her that she can break his curse but only by marrying him

[princesssarisa]

The Top 40 Most Popular Operas, Part 3 (#21 through #30)

A quick guide for newcomers to the genre, with links to online video recordings of complete performances, with English subtitles whenever possible.

Verdi's Il Trovatore

The second of Verdi's three great "middle period" tragedies (the other two being Rigoletto and La Traviata): a grand melodrama filled with famous melodies.

Studio film, 1957 (Mario del Monaco, Leyla Gencer, Ettore Bastianini, Fedora Barbieri; conducted by Fernando Previtali) (no subtitles; read the libretto in English translation here)

Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor

The most famous tragic opera in the bel canto style, based on Sir Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor, and featuring opera's most famous "mad scene."

Studio film, 1971 (Anna Moffo, Lajos Kozma, Giulio Fioravanti, Paolo Washington; conducted by Carlo Felice Cillario)

Leoncavallo's Pagliacci

The most famous example of verismo opera: brutal Italian realism from the turn of the 20th century. Jealousy, adultery, and violence among a troupe of traveling clowns.

Feature film, 1983 (Plácido Domingo, Teresa Stratas, Juan Pons, Alberto Rinaldi; conducted by Georges Prêtre)

Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI

Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio)

Mozart's comic Singspiel (German opera with spoken dialogue) set amid a Turkish harem. What it lacks in political correctness it makes up for in outstanding music.

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1988 (Deon van der Walt, Inga Nielsen, Lillian Watson, Lars Magnusson, Kurt Moll, Oliver Tobias; conducted by Georg Solti) (click CC for subtitles)

Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera

A Verdi tragedy of forbidden love and political intrigue, inspired by the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden.

Leipzig Opera House, 2006 (Massimiliano Pisapia, Chiara Taigi, Franco Vassallo, Annamaria Chiuri, Eun Yee You; conducted by Riccardo Chailly) (click CC for subtitles)

Part I, Part II

Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)

A half-comic, half-tragic fantasy opera based on the writings of E.T.A. Hoffmann, in which the author becomes the protagonist of his own stories of ill-fated love.

Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2018 (Juan Diego Flórez, Olga Peretyatko, Nicolas Courjal, Sophie Marilley; conducted by Jacques Lacombe) (click CC and choose English in "Auto-translate" under "Settings" for subtitles)

Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)

An early and particularly accessible work of Wagner, based on the legend of a phantom ship doomed to sail the seas until its captain finds a faithful bride.

Savolinna Opera, 1989 (Franz Grundheber, Hildegard Behrens, Ramiro Sirkiä, Matti Salminen; conducted by Leif Segerstam) (click CC for subtitles)

Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana

A one-act drama of adultery and scorned love among Sicilian peasants, second only to Pagliacci (with which it's often paired in a double bill) as the most famous verismo opera.

St. Petersburg Opera, 2012 (Fyodor Ataskevich, Iréne Theorin, Nikolay Kopylov, Ekaterina Egorova, Nina Romanova; conducted by Mikhail Tatarnikov)

Verdi's Falstaff

Verdi's final opera, a "mighty burst of laughter" based on Shakespeare's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Studio film, 1979 (Gabriel Bacquier, Karan Armstrong, Richard Stilwell, Marta Szirmay, Jutta Renate Ihloff, Max René Cosotti; conducted by Georg Solti) (click CC for subtitles)

Verdi's Otello (Othello)

Verdi's second-to-last great Shakespearean opera, based on the tragedy of the Moor of Venice.

Teatro alla Scala, 2001 (Plácido Domingo, Leo Nucci, Barbara Frittoli; conducted by Riccardo Muti)

[doyouknowthisopera]

[mstanyawinslow]

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

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[boatmediatourney]

⚓Boat Media Tournament⚓

Round 1, match 7

[die-weltbuehne]

“Durch Sturm und bösen Wind verschlagen, irr auf den Wassern ich umher; wie lange? weiß ich kaum zu sagen, schon zähl ich nicht die Jahre mehr. Unmöglich dünkt mich's, daß ich nenne die Länder alle, die ich fand: – das Eine nur, nach dem ich brenne, ich find es nicht – mein Heimatland!”

– aus Der fliegende Holländer (1843) von Richard Wagner

[ulrichgebert]

Wir konnten dann sogar einen Geburtstagsfilm für Marlene anbringen, diesmal sogar endlich wieder den unter Bildungbsürgern als bedeutsam geltenden (der Bruder des Autors der Romanvorlage erhielt den Literaturnobelpreis!) und besonders wirkungsmächtigen, der aber wenn man ehrlich ist, so weit von The Devil Is A Woman auch nicht weg ist. Für das Männermordende-Vamp-Fach ist Marlenes hier letzmals verwendete Piepsestimme recht ungewöhnlich.

[issela-santina]

Leipzig really contemplating that the baritone they got to play Wagner's beloved Dutch blorbo this year hails from Iceland and then tossing him this

Ólafur Sigurðarson takes a selfie showing off his much-needed knee braces and a big, floor-length robe with puffy sleeves, part of his costume for Oper Leipzig's 2024 production of Richard Wagner's der fliegende Holländer. The worn-and-torn robe is particularly dark red with shreds of grey adorning it, giving an unexpected impression of lava cooling down after a volcanic eruption.

this robe doesn't say handsome grim reaper of the high seas like the Colorado fit coat with the layered sleeves, mind you, this one says demiurge of the Earth's fucking Hadean aeon. motherfucker went to Muspelheim and snatched himself a souvenir. thank you costume department

[gluecookie]

[princesssarisa]

@simone-boccanegra, @tuttocenere, @leporellian, @notyouraveragejulie, @supercantaloupe, @ariel-seagull-wings

[mozart2006]

Impressioni da Bayreuth 2023 - Der fliegende Holländer

Foto ©Enrico Nawrath Per uno come me, innamorato della musica di Wagner sin da quando ero un ragazzino, il viaggio a Bayreuth costituisce ogni anno una tappa estiva obbligatoria. Continue reading Untitled

[joaquimblog]

BAYREUTH 2023: DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER ( Zeppenfeld-Teige-Mužek-Volle;Lyniv)

Michael Volle (Der Holländer), Nadine Weissmann (Mary), Georg Zeppenfeld (Daland) und Elisabeth Teige (Senta) im 2. Aufzug der Oper “Der fliegende Holländer” in Bayreuth. (© Enrico Nawrath/Festspiele Bayreuth/dpa) Avui us parlaré de la transmissió radiofònica (meravellós treball de la BR–Klassik, transmès al món) de Der Fliegende Holländer. La producció que no veiem, és la signada per…

[tomytulpe86]