#male soprano

[freddiespencerchapman]

every time i try and find male sopranos on spotify it thinks i want to listen to the sopranos soundtrack

[hotch-girl]

CHRISTOPHER MOLTISANTI-ISMS

THE SOPRANOS (1999 — 2007)

[disappointingcabbage]

Fellas, is it gay to live inside another man forever with Satan himself by my side?

[finemaleactors]

James Gandolfini and John Turturro

[sincetheducksleft]

I do think Tony and Carmela are an example of the trend in most fictional narratives for male rage to come from being denied something you feel you deserve (acceptance, freedom, love, a fair shot, or in this case a family of origin that loved him and a chance at a healthy adult life), and for female rage to come from exceeding your capacity to absorb the cruelty of others, usually men.

[msburgundy]

counter tenor, soprano, contralto, tenor

i feel like this video is one of the best illustrations of what is meant by "the contralto voice is structurally similar to a male voice"

[lionblaze03-2]

sometimes I think about writing and singing music not because I’m an incredible singer but because no one has my fucking voice, especially in popular music, and its disheartening to be born a girl, told you’ll only get girl roles or try to voice match other girls, or ‘sing with the girls’ and then only be able to match male voices because you’re a fuckin tenor and not anything higher. I can’t think of any girl Broadway roles I can hit all the notes on. Most songs I love I have to pitch down for myself or use falsetto for singing along to. It bothers me a lot less now because I’m an adult who’s more secure in myself but as a teen in kids musical theatre it FUCKED with me, BAD style. And I know for a fact that even now when I hear people with a voice like mine singing I get excited and immediately invested in their work because they’re like ME, finally, for once. A brother in this world of being afab and having the voice of a recently pubescent boy forever. Maybe I should be that brother too.

[lucapizzelles]

I was chilling listening to phantom of the opera and of course was thinking of a Luca au with that and then it smacked me that Alberto would probably LOVE phantom of the opera

He'd complain that it's not real opera but otherwise i see him liking theatre and what better than one that is as close to an opera as you can get without really being an opera

i dont imagine he ever learns english as he grows older as a hc but if it was in Italian or he just listens without really knowing what they're saying then that satisfies me, the music itself is just really beautiful

[yuneu]

i know im always asking for recs but do u guys have any tv shows to rec that has a minimum of 3 women with a role other than wife

[anthencciiiaa]

c'est la vie😴

[freddieandflorence]

in another life i am an opera singer 😔

[caitrose]

IVE BEEN ON T FOR A WHOLE YEAR!! ヽ(^◇^*)/

Damn I really used to sound like that

(They/them pls and thank u ^-^)

[phantom-voices]

In May my sister was suppose to attend the concert with me. I had already met the band a few times but this would have been her first and she was very excited for it. However at the time she was having bad seizures and also ended up have an EEG that same week so she was unable to go. It was also my birthday gift to her.

A few days prior to the show I spoke with Meek (male vocalist) and he said they would do a video for her. It was a surprise and when she saw it she started crying. Here's the video.

[agentsnickers]

sometimes i miss performing so bad

like, i can sing in my house but it's not the same. and i miss acting too, yknow? i get some of that feeling at work but it's not really the same, with the interactivity and the variability of our show and everything

[flying-coffins]

I know Tony S*prono would slap my head clean off my body like a polar bear, BUT pls please sir let me grab your boobs. Just a squeeze.

[sincetheducksleft]

"Proshai, Livushka": Arcs or the lack thereof as a major theme of The Sopranos

One thing that's straight up insane about The Sopranos is how a narrative show can expose the insufficiency of narrative to explain our lives. I think Christopher's story is probably the most obvious example, but you see it with every single character, including Tony.

In "Proshai, Livushka" we see Tony rewatching an old mobster movie again and again, and we know that he saw the whole story every time, but the piece of the story that we get to see and our corresponding understanding of Tony's character changes over the course of the episode.

Meaning that Tony's arc in this episode, or the overall arc of the episode, may be less a true transformation of Tony himself than a transformation of what the audience knows of him. In fact, we are the ones who are changed by this episode, and from Tony's perspective he has no arc at all.

Which is sort of perfect, because here if there ever was one is a story with no "arc."

An "arc" (in the context of screenwriting, which is the context in which it was introduced to this show) is what gives meaning to the whole story. It's the narrative satisfaction, the profound feeling, the purpose, the message, the thing that makes the movie feel like it amounted to something and it was worth your time.

In the wake of his grief, Tony isn't obsessed with just any mobster movie, he's obsessed with a movie full of broad stereotypes and simple messages that amounts to a cliched, simplistic mother figure losing her son. It's the tragedy of a mother's profound grief that gives tragedy to the death of the son and makes the movie worth your time.

It's a contrast to Livia's obsession with mothers who kill their children, and its an extension of his comment to Melfi that he deserves to die. And you realize when the son character dies that Tony is wishing it was him in the coffin. Not because he's suicidal, but because he's just that desperate for a sense of meaning. For a story that has an arc.

And then you realize in the final scene, when it's not the mother's grief but the mother's love that brings him to tears, that he knows it wouldn't work. His death would have no arc, no profundity, no purpose. Because Livia never loved him the way a mother figure should.

His story isn't written in broad caricatures and it has no divine mother's love at the center of it giving divinity and meaning to everything else. Losing himself in a movie is the closest he'll ever get to putting some kind of arc or meaning or sense to that relationship.

And if real life has no arc, then at what point does it become worth your time? Or, like Livia and Robert Frost said, is every moment of our lives surrounded and defined only by the big nothing?