#madamas

[gustavomirabalcastro]

El Carnaval de El Callao, una festividad patrimonial e identidad cultural

El carnaval de El Callao es una práctica cultural de esta ciudad de Venezuela, que guarda relación con los festejos de emancipación llamados “Cannes Brulées” que tienen lugar en las Antillas de habla francesa. Desde enero a marzo, esta festividad tradicional reúne hasta unos 3.000 participantes que desfilan por las calles de la localidad disfrazados de personajes históricos o de ficción como…

[unteriors]

Vicolo S. Lorenzo, Castel Madama, Lazio.

[thesecrethistori-an]

Evening at the opera (Madama Butterfly)

I'm so thankful for living in a country with accessible culture

[maythegnome]

Thinking bout them <3

Peak character design tbh

[oeuvrinarydurian]

Good afternoon, delightful Tumblr people. It’s a gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous weekend in upstate New York in the Catskills. I’ve had Morse on the brain all weekend. Between writing that little vignette, and trying to explain to my mother why the show is so amazing, and our season seven project, I’ve been talking a lot and thinking a lot about his various life stages and iterations. It made me think of the very very very beginning. This scene never fails to move me. There’s so much emotion in it, and yet he isn’t even shot from the front. We barely see an entire profile. And of course, his eye roll…it says so much. it’s hard to believe this was supposed to be a one off, and he’d never played the character before. It’s just remarkable. The music is everything here too.

[kommandonuovidiavoli]

My oc Lottie,please?

Since she's a pageant, here she is showing one of the looks!

BUON NATALE MADAMA!!!

[wandering-italy]

Stairwell. Palazzo Madama, Turin

Dec. 2016

[askthreeyes]

𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐑𝐀: *Sigh* Isolde, have you seen where my make up and favourite dress has gone?

[escapismsworld]

📍Facciata di Palazzo Madama, Italy

[princesssarisa]

Opera on YouTube, Part 2

Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1973 (Knut Skram, Ileana Cotrubas, Kiri Te Kanawa, Benjamin Luxon; conducted by John Pritchard; English subtitles)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1976 (Hermann Prey, Mirella Freni, Kiri Te Kanawa, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; conducted by Karl Böhm; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Tokyo National Theatre, 1980 (Hermann Prey, Lucia Popp, Gundula Janowitz, Bernd Weikl; conducted by Karl Böhm; Japanese subtitles)

Théâtre du Châtelet, 1993 (Bryn Terfel, Alison Hagley, Hillevi Martinpelto, Rodney Gilfry; conducted by John Eliot Gardiner; Italian subtitles)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1994 (Gerald Finley, Alison Hagley, Renée Fleming, Andreas Schmidt; conducted by Bernard Haitink; English subtitles)

Zürich Opera House, 1996 (Carlos Chaussón, Isabel Rey, Eva Mei, Rodney Gilfry; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; English subtitles)

Berlin State Opera, 2005 (Lauri Vasar, Anna Prohaska, Dorothea Röschmann, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo; conducted by Gustavo Dudamel; French subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2006 (Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Anna Netrebko, Dorothea Röschmann, Bo Skovhus; conducted by Nikolas Harnoncourt; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Teatro all Scala, 2006 (Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Diana Damrau, Marcella Orasatti Talamanca, Pietro Spagnoli; conducted by Gérard Korsten; English and Italian subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2015 (Adam Plachetka, Martina Janková, Anett Fritsch, Luca Pisaroni; conducted by Dan Ettinger; no subtitles)

Tosca

Carmine Gallone studio film, 1956 (Franca Duval dubbed by Maria Caniglia, Franco Corelli, Afro Poli dubbed by Giangiacomo Guelfi; conducted by Oliviero de Fabritiis; no subtitles)

Gianfranco de Bosio film, 1976 (Raina Kabaivanska, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes; conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1978 (Shirley Verrett, Luciano Pavarotti, Cornell MacNeil; conducted by James Conlon; no subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 1984 (Eva Marton, Jaume Aragall, Ingvar Wixell; conducted by Daniel Oren; no subtitles)

Teatro Real de Madrid, 2004 (Daniela Dessí, Fabio Armiliato, Ruggero Raimondi; conducted by Maurizio Benini; English subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2011 (Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel; conducted by Antonio Pappano; English subtitles)

Finnish National Opera, 2018 (Ausrinė Stundytė, Andrea Carè, Tuomas Pursio; conducted by Patrick Fournillier; English subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala 2019 (Anna Netrebko, Francesco Meli, Luca Salsi; conducted by Riccardo Chailly; Hungarian subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2019 (Sondra Radvanovsky, Piotr Beczala, Thomas Hampson; conducted by Marco Armiliato; English subtitles)

Ópera de las Palmas, 2024 (Erika Grimaldi, Piotr Beczala, George Gagnidze; conducted by Ramón Tebar; no subtitles)

Don Giovanni

Salzburg Festival, 1954 (Cesare Siepi, Otto Edelmann, Elisabeth Grümmer, Lisa della Casa; conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler; English subtitles)

Giacomo Vaccari studio film, 1960 (Mario Petri, Sesto Bruscantini, Teresa Stich-Randall, Leyla Gencer; conducted by Francesco Molinari-Pradelli; no subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 1987 (Samuel Ramey, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Julia Varady; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; no subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 1987 (Thomas Allen, Claudio Desderi, Edita Gruberova, Ann Murray; conducted by Riccardo Muti; English subtitles)

Peter Sellars studio film, 1990 (Eugene Perry, Herbert Perry, Dominique Labelle, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson; conducted by Craig Smith; English subtitles)

Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, 1997 (Simon Keenlyside, Bryn Terfel, Carmela Remigio, Anna Caterina Antonacci; conducted by Claudio Abbado; no subtitles) – Act I, Act II

Zürich Opera, 2000 (Rodney Gilfry, László Polgár, Isabel Rey, Cecilia Bartoli; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; English subtitles)

Festival Aix-en-Provence, 2002 (Peter Mattei, Gilles Cachemaille, Alexandra Deshorties, Mirielle Delunsch; conducted by Daniel Harding; no subtitles)

Teatro Real de Madrid, 2006 (Carlos Álvarez, Lorenzo Regazzo, Maria Bayo, Sonia Ganassi; conducted by Victor Pablo Pérez; English subtitles)

Festival Aix-en-Provence, 2017 (Philippe Sly, Nahuel de Pierro, Eleonora Burratto, Isabel Leonard; conducted by Jérémie Rohrer; English subtitles)

Madama Butterfly

Mario Lanfranchi studio film, 1956 (Anna Moffo, Renato Cioni; conducted by Oliviero de Fabritiis; no subtitles)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1974 (Mirella Freni, Plácido Domingo; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; English subtitles)

New York City Opera, 1982 (Judith Haddon, Jerry Hadley; conducted by Christopher Keene; English subtitles)

Frédéric Mitterand film, 1995 (Ying Huang, Richard Troxell; conducted by James Conlon; English subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 2004 (Fiorenza Cedolins, Marcello Giordani; conducted by Daniel Oren; Spanish subtitles)

Sferisterio Opera Festival, 2009 (Raffaela Angeletti, Massimiliano Pisapia; conducted by Daniele Callegari; no subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2017 (Maria José Siri, Murat Karahan; conducted by Jonathan Darlington; no subtitles)

Wichita Grand Opera, 2017 (Yunnie Park, Kirk Dougherty; conducted by Martin Mazik; English subtitles)

Teatro San Carlo, 2019 (Evgenia Muraveva, Saimir Pirgu; conducted by Gabriele Ferro; no subtitles)

Rennes Opera House, 2022 (Karah Son, Angelo Villari; conducted by Rudolf Piehlmayer; French subtitles)

[dclxviudex]

Madama Styx

[ripeteeth]

I’m losing my mind. there’s a particular scene at the end of the met opera’s 2024 production of madama butterfly that I DESPERATELY want to find, but there’s absolutely zero images of it. God, it’s the final scene and it’s from Anthony Minghella’s staging and it’s STRIKING and beautiful and I want to look at it forever

[gameguy20100]

Is it funny that I feel bad for granny Alix? Like she’s doing this in her 70s so all of the heroes are still doing crime fighting. At that point I’d just give the miraculous to other people.

Lol. I know right?

Alix is clearly too stubborn for her own good. Like, girl enjoy retirement you've done enough.

And what does this mean for the others? Are Marinette and Lila trying to kill eachother with canes and knitting needles?

Because I'd watch that!

[scanzen]

Puccini: Pillangókisasszony

1963, Qualiton, Hungary.

Cover art: Varga Győző

[samhansby]

Encounter with the White Witch

Heira is from @madama-noctule /@heira-minecraft

A pale groove stretches in all directions, with tall, bare trees standing in tight clusters. Snow clumps cover the ground, creating a thick layer that muffles footsteps. The sky is overcast, a uniform sheet of gray above. There is no wind, only the sound of feet pressing into the snow.

Three figures walk along a barely visible path. One of them is clad in a pitch black robe, holding an equally black staff with an eye resting at the top, while the other two move with their arms folded, although the third stays slightly behind, with their head tilting with each glance toward the surroundings.

At some point during their walk, they stop. A lady stands in the clearing, dressed in white. Her arms are at their sides, and her gaze is fixed on the newcomers. Snow gathers on their shoulders, showing no sign of disturbance.

Silence settles between them as the figure in white raises a hand slightly, not in greeting, not in warning. Their voice carries no weight, no urgency, only words. 

WHITE LADY: "You are quite a colorful lot, aren’t you?"

The lady in black does not move nor respond immediately. Her grip on her staff remains unchanged, and her voice -an echoing void- resonates without a mouth from which it may come from.

BLACK LADY: "We were not expecting this forest to be inhabited. Who are you?"

WHITE LADY: "Oh, me? Well, you travelers may call me Heira. I... have lived in this forest for as long as I have memory. I ought to say... you are not the first ones. Some have addressed me as a witch, a traveler, a watcher, an owl… perhaps something more, if the story allows."

The group of travelers listen intently to the lady introduced as Heira. None of them interrupt her introduction. 

HEIRA: “I must say those are some creative monikers, don’t you agree?"

One of the other figures speaks up with a hoarse voice. It is a humanoid shark -a Greenland Shark- dressed in a withered purple jacket with golden details, and a loose sleeve.

GREENLAND SHARK: "Uh… yes, perhaps. But… what do you mean with ‘if the story allows'?"

Heira steps forward with slow and measured steps.

HEIRA: "A story of crossings and meetings. Of taken paths that now converge. You are travelers, are you not? You have sought, and now, you have found."

The Black Lady does not respond immediately, but the other lady, a hybrid of a manta ray and a shark does, albeit in a slow and low tone. She is the tallest of the group, dressed in a green, sleeveless robe, exhibiting a couple of white fins on each side of her arms. 

MANTA SHARK: “M-my apologies, but… I do not know w-where have you drawn that c-conclusion. None of us were actively seeking… seeking you… nor expected to… meet you. 

After those words, everyone looks at the Manta Shark intensely, waiting for her to finish her long, unending speaking time.

MANTA SHARK: “...but if… if we have truly ‘found’, if this meeting was truly meant to… to be as you claim… then what comes next?”

Heira shows a faint and distant smile etched on her face.

HEIRA: "That is for you to decide."

The Black Lady shifts her stance, her staff tilting ever so slightly forward. 

BLACK LADY: "What if we decide to leave?"

HEIRA: "Then you walk away, and the snow covers your tracks as if you were never here."

GREENLAND SHARK: "And if we stay?"

The White Lady’s gaze lingers on them.

HEIRA: "Then you listen, and I speak."

The trio of travelers exchange their gazes, deliberating their next move.

GREENLAND SHARK: “I say we let her say her piece. What’s to lose anyway? I’m sure it’d be a perfect way to wind down after working so much on the Acropolis.”

MANTA SHARK: “I… I don’t trust her. What if… she means harm?”

BLACK LADY: “It’s too early to assume the worst of her, Leocadia. For now, it’s best to do as ▆▆▆ says (turns to the Greenland Shark). We will listen to her and hope for the best.”

LEOCADIA: “Alright. If you say so… I trust you.” 

With that said, the Black Lady announces the group’s decision to Heira.

BLACK LADY: “Very well, Heira. We will stay for a while and listen to your story. I trust we will all have a serendipitous experience from it.”

HEIRA: “Oh, you most certainly will. You will not be disappointed. But before we get to that… tell me. Who are you?”

BLACK LADY: “Well… this here is ▆▆▆ (turns her head to the Greenland Shark), this is Leocadia (then to her), and as for me, my name is ▆▆▆. Pleasure to meet you, Heira.”

[fatherdollface]

Bayo Bayo baby I love you ain’t that crazy?