#minnie and dick johnson

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[muchadoabout]

Per sempre, Dick! 

EVA-MARIA WESTBROEK & JONAS KAUFMANN  as Minnie & Dick Johnson in PUCCINI: LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST Metropolitan Opera, 2018

[tactiletelekonesis]

putting the DC in DCP

I have brainrot so here's what I think these characters would do if they did the Disney College Program at Walt Disney World because I'm doing the DCP and I want to pretend they are too:

Batfam:

Bruce Wayne: Character Performer in Magic Kingdom

Dick Grayson: Character Performer in Magic Kingdom

Jason Todd: Attractions at Haunted Mansion in Magic Kingdom (Liberty Square)

Tim Drake: Attractions at Smuggler’s Run in Hollywood Studios (Galaxy’s Edge)

Duke Thomas: Character Attendant in Magic Kingdom

Damian Wayne: Photopass in Animal Kingdom

Barbara Gordon: Merchandise in Magic Kingdom (Fantasyland)

Cass Cain: Character Attendant in Hollywood Studios (Galaxy’s Edge)

Steph Brown: Fairy Godmother in Training at Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique in Magic Kingdom (Fantasyland)

Selina Kyle: Merchandise at World of Disney in Disney Springs

Kate Kane: Convention Guide in EPCOT

Harper Row: Attractions at Toy Story Mania in Hollywood Studios (Toy Story Land)

Superfam:

Clark Kent: Vacation Planner in Hollywood Studios

Lois Lane: Convention Guide in EPCOT

Kara Danvers: Attractions at Space Mountain in Magic Kingdom (Tomorrowland)

Conner Kent: Character Performer in Hollywood Studios (Galaxy’s Edge) specifically Chewbacca

Jonathan Kent: Attractions at Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin in Magic Kingdom (Tomorrowland)

Wonderfam:

Diana Prince: Children’s Activities at Art of Animation Resort

Steve Trevor: Attractions at Soarin’ in EPCOT (Future World)

Donna Troy: Attractions at Expedition Everest in Animal Kingdom

Cassie Sandsmark: Attractions at Dinosaur in Animal Kingdom (Dinoland)

Yara Flor: Attractions at Jungle Cruise in Magic Kingdom (Adventureland)

Nubia Johnson: Attractions at Spaceship Earth in EPCOT (Future World)

Flashfam:

Jay Garrick: Attractions at Peoplemover in Magic Kingdom (Tomorrowland)

Barry Allen: Attractions at Speedway in Magic Kingdom (Tomorrowland)

Wally West: Attractions at Slinky Dog Dash in Hollywood Studios (Toy Story Land)

Bart Allen: Attractions at Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy in Hollywood Studios

Wallace West II: Attractions at Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway in Hollywood Studios

Avery Ho: Attractions at Test Track in EPCOT (Future World)

Honorary mentions:

Hal Jordan: Attractions at Mission: Space in EPCOT (Future World)

Billy Batson: Attractions at It’s a Small World in Magic Kingdom (Fantasyland)

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If you're still doing color palettes, how about the Fanciulla principals and Blanche de la Force?

You got it!

Minnie:

The Most Unfortunately Named Tenor Role In The History Of Opera, aka Dick Johnson:

Jack Rance:

and now for something completely different (aka Blanche de la Force):

[opera-ghosts]

Tina Poli Randaccio   was a most renowned Aida, Gioconda and Minnie in Italy, Spain and South America during the first third of this century and her career is just about the longest of any Italian spinto in this century, thirty five years. The voice, on record, shows a remarkable vibrancy and it has real heft, a sound that certainly was able to fill out the demands of the heaviest music. In fact, she did sing, among other roles, the Siegfried Brunnhilde.   Ernestina Poli was born in Ferrara, Italy on 3 April 1879, and she studied for only a few years before making her debut at Bergamo in 1902 as Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera. She had a huge success and was retained for another dozen performances in Il Trovatore and the then very popular Salvator Rosa. She ended the year at Massa. At this point, despite her success, she retreated from the stage for another year of training, after which she debuted at Messina in Andrea Chenier with the tenor Ruggero Randaccio. On 17 Jan, 1904 she sang Micaela for the only time in her career, again with Randaccio as her stage partner. It was not long before the couple announced that they were to be joined in life, and in the summer of 1904, shortly before a tour to South America, they were married. She immediately changed her stage name to Tina Poli Randaccio, and there are interesting and amusing confusions in some South American reviews during the tour of 1904, in which she is listed as the tenor, he the soprano. Poli was assumed to be his first name and Ruggera, hers.The tour took the couple to Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro where Tina appeared as Mimi, the Trovatore Leonora, Desdemona, Aida, Maddalena di Coigny, Gioconda and Santuzza. He sang in Boheme, Andrea Chenier and Cavalleria Rusticana. The year ended at Sao Paolo with an opera called Cristo alla Festa di Purim, after which she added La Forza del Destino, Ballo in Maschera and Ernani to her assignments in Brazil. The couple traveled with the company to Manaus and Pernambuco, then returned to Europe where Ruggero announced his retirement from the stage. They decided that he would be her manager and coach, and from about this point his name was never seen on a billboard again.On 2 December 1904 Tina debuted at Milan's Teatro Dal Verme in an opera called Jana with Bergamasco and Schiavazzi conducted by Serafin and from there she went to Oporto where she sang in Aida, Il Trovatore, Don Carlo, Pagliacci, Un Ballo in Maschera and Cavalleria Rusticana. After a short respite, the couple sailed for Mexico, and in September 1905 Tina appeared at the capitol in Les Huguenots (in Italian), Aida, Germania, Un Ballo in Maschera and Giordano's recently produced opera Siberia. The company included Virginia Guerrini, Alice Zeppilli, De Marchi and Magini Coletti, and it is not surprising, given those names, that the tour extended for four months and included visits to Guadalajara.Turin welcomed her back to Italy when she appeared at the Teatro Vittorio Emanuele as Gioconda in January of 1907. A tour to Bucharest was arranged by Randaccio and on 11 November Tina debuted as Aida in a cast that included De Angelo, Angioletti and Bellat. On the 18th, she sang in Ernani with Angioletti, Titta Ruffo and Torres de Luna. Her season continued into the middle of December with Un Ballo in Maschera and Il Trovatore, both with Ruffo, Les Huguenots, and La Gioconda. A visit was made to Kiev and Odessa, but I have no record of her roles.Tina debuted at Parma's Teatro Regio on 6 January 1908 in Mascagni's brand new opera, Amica and after singing in Red Roses and Damnation of Faust, she undertook a four month tour of Italy with the new work, under Mascagni's direction. The cities visited included, Firenze, Bologna, Modena, Verona, Treviso, Trieste, Ravenna, Ancona, Cesena and Forli, where she received a thunderous welcome and was hailed as the greatest soprano seen there in a generation. At Livorno she sang in the composer's Le Maschere and Iris and the tour ended at Rome's Teatro Adriano, where Tina sang eleven performances of Amica and several of Le Maschere, the latter with Juanita Caracciolo and Carlo Galeffi.On 26 December, Tina made a much heralded debut at Venice's Teatro la Fenice as Aida with Ladislava Hotkowska and Henderson. The revival was so well received that a scheduled three performances became six. At Fiume, in April, she sang in Ernani and La Gioconda and in October she returned to the Adriano for Tosca, Aida and the world premiere of Raffaelo,by De Lunghi.In February 1910 Tina debuted at Madrid's Teatro Real as Gioconda in a cast that included Flora Perini, Giuseppe Taccani and Ruffo, after which she sang ten performances of Aida and six of Loreley at Catania's Masimo Bellini. The spring found the Randaccios back in Brazil, where, at Rio de Janeiro, on 27 May, Tina sang Isolde for the only time in her career, though it was a moderate, if not overwhelming success. At Rio, she also sang in Il Trovatore, La Gioconda, Loreley, Tosca, Aida, and Germania, and at Sao Paolo, she added another new work, Boscaiuola. Tina's tour partners included Anna Gramegna, Krismer, Giraldoni and Viglione-Borghese, and, as had been the case in Mexico, this starry roster resulted in an extended season both in Rio and in Sao Paolo.The most important moment of her career had arrived. On 17 December 1910 Tina debuted at La Scala as the Siegfried Brunnhilde, with the inimitable Giuseppe Borgatti in the title role. There were a dozen performances, and the production was a complete success. Fanny Anitua was an unforgettable Erda according to contemporary reviews, and the hero and heroine received memorable ovations every evening. Though hers would not be a major career in the most important of all Italian theaters, it continued at intervals for a good number of years, and included several world premiers.In February 1911 Tina returned to Parma for La Gioconda and then took a well needed break from performing. During the summer, she learned the role of Minnie in La Fanciulla del West, and on 10 September, at Puccini's invitation, she sang the first of thirteen performances at Lucca's Teatro del Giglio with Taccani as Dick Johnson. Her success was enormous, in fact, greater than her predecessor, Eugenia Burzio, who had sung in the Italian premiere earlier in the season. Poli was immediately engaged to repeat the opera at Naples' San Carlo with Martinelli and Viglione-Borghese and at Bari's Teatro Petruzzelli with Corti and Mariano Stabile. After a debut at Palermo's Massimo as Gioconda in March 1912, she sang Minnie at Monte Carlo, again with Martinelli and Viglione-Borghese, and in late May she debuted at the Paris Opera as Minnie in a gala performance with Enrico Caruso.In November, Tina sang in La Gioconda at Genoa and then prepared for the Scala premiere of Fanciulla. There were many sopranos who had vied for the honor, whose partisans had lobbied intensely for them, and the uncertainty had been a major story in Italian newspapers. Burzio reigned at Scala, but it was not to be. Tina's reputation as Minnie was by now so secure that both Scala's management and the composer agreed that she deserved the honor. On 29 December, before a star studded audience, the Milan theater presented La Fanciulla del West for the first time with Poli Randaccio, Martinelli and Galeffi. Tullio Serafin was on the podium, and the clamor was so enormous that the opera was repeated fourteen times.Tina repeated Minnie at Monte Carlo in February 1913 with Martinelli and George Baklanov, after which she sang the role at the site of its Italian premiere, the Costanzi of Rome. In the spring there were concerts at Modena in honor of the centenary of Verdi's birth and on 15 December, Tina sang in the world premiere of Mascagni's Parisina at La Scala under the composer's baton. The cast included Luisa Garibaldi, Hipolito Lazaro and Galeffi, and there were twelve performances.On 10 February 1914 Poli sang in the world premiere of Smareglia's Abisso and on 2 April in the world premiere of Alfano's Ombra di Don Giovanni, both at La Scala. In May she sang in Tosca at Milan's Teatro Carcano with Garbin and Viglione-Borghese and in October Tina participated in one of this century's most important stage debuts, that of Beniamino Gigli as Enzo, at Rovigo, on 15 October. It was the scene of veritable riots; a star had truly been born, and there were thirteen performances. Tina's year ended with Un Ballo in Maschera at Piacenza, a revival shared with the equally celebrated Celestina Boninsegna. Rome's Costanzi welcomed Tina back as Gioconda, Tosca and Minnie in the winter of 1915, and after Gioconda at Naples and Aida at Firenze, she sailed for South America and her debut at the Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires. On 25 May, Poli debuted as Gioconda in a cast that included Perini, Lazaro, and Riccardo Stracciari. La Prensa referred to her as "a major talent whose voice can send shivers down one's spine, so present and immediate is the reaction". On 6 June she sang Santuzza and on the 17th, she sang in a concert with Caruso, Bernardo de Muro, Mario Sammarco and Lazaro. The season ended with Tosca and had included performances with the company at Cordoba and Rosario, where she sang Tosca and Santuzza, and at Tucuman, where she sang Santuzza. Tina traveled from Argentina to Santiago, Chile, and on 27 August, she opened the season at the Teatro Municipal in La Fanciulla del West. The work was so well received that an additional performance was added; it was the only opera to be seen as many as four times. She stayed at Santiago for two months, singing Tosca, Aida, Gioconda, Santuzza, the Trovatore Leonora and Maddalena di Coigny and appeared as Aida, Tosca, Gioconda and the Trovatore Leonora at Valparaiso. Tina returned to Buenos Aires in late October where, at the Teatro Coliseo, she sang all of her Chilean roles except for Maddalena, and after a brief rest, she undertook a long tour of the Caribbean Basin. World War I was in its most intense period and the safety of the Western Hemisphere certainly seemed more attractive than the dangers of Europe. On 29 January 1916 Tina debuted at Havana as Aida, and later sang in Tosca, Il Trovatore, Cavalleria Rusticana, Iris, La Gioconda, Les Huguenots, and La Fanciulla del West. Her tenor partners were Lazaro and Zinoviev; Enrico Roggio carried most of the baritone weight and Amelita Galli-Curci appeared with Poli in Les Huguenots (in Italian). The company stayed at the Cuban capitol for nearly two months, then toured to Cienfuegos, Camaguey, Santiago de Cuba, Mananzas and in the late spring, to Costa Rica. In November Tina returned to Italy for Tosca at Bologna with Aureliano Pertile and Jose Segura-Tallien and in January 1917 she sang at Milan's Dal Verme in a gala concert, including act 3 of Aida and act 4 of La Gioconda. At La Spezia she sang Aida, and in June Tina debuted at Zurich as Tosca with Gubellini and Sammarco. After singing Santuzza at the Swiss theater, she returned to the Dal Verme for Aida and at Genoa, she sang in La Gioconda with Vita Ferluga, Folco-Bottaro and Galeffi. Tina decided that the climate in Europe was not what the doctor ordered, and in fact, work was difficult to find for nearly everyone in 1917. Many of Italy's most important theaters were closed, and those that remained open presented very shortened seasons. Havana again beckoned and Tina returned in December for Aida, La Fanciulla del West, Les Huguenots, Tosca, La Gioconda, L'Africaine, La Boheme and a new opera, Doreya. Her colleagues included the tenor, Jose Palet, Edith Mason, Maria Barrientos and the basses, Nicoletti-Korman and Virgilio Lazzari. The tour again included Camaguey, Cienfuegos and Santiago. In mid March 1918, the company moved to San Juan and Ponce for a two month season in Puerto Rico. Poli sang the same roles and added Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera. In June, at Caracas, Venezuela she sang in Aida, Tosca, Les Huguenots, La Gioconda and Cavalleria Rusticana.The Great War was over and Tina returned to the safety of a victorious Italy for La Gioconda at Bologna, Milan's Teatro Lirico and Firenze's La Pergola. On 18 December she reappeared in glory for the first of eleven performances of Aida at La Scala. The next few months were spent at Turin with Cavalleria Rusticana and Aida. It was during the revival of Aida that Tancredi Pasero made his absolute opera debut as Il Re, substituting for an indisposed colleague. It is with some pride that the author acknowledges this event, since Pasero's debut has always been listed as at Vicenza in La Sonnambula much later in the year. After La Fanciulla del West at Trieste's Teatro Rossetti, in late November, Tina debuted as Aida at Barcelona's Liceo and in December she completed her engagement as Gioconda. In January 1920 Tina sang thirteen performances of Aida at Trieste's Teatro Verdi with the stellar cast of Giuseppina Zinetti, Miguel Fleta and Carmelo Maugeri. Rome's Costanzi welcomed Poli back with seven performances of La Gioconda and Genoa saw her as Santuzza in March. May was spent at the Fenice of Venice, where Tina sang in Suor Angelica with Elvira Casazza and in Aida. In June, she traveled to London for a debut at Covent Garden in Tosca with Fernand Ansseau and Dinh Ghilly and was very poorly received by both public and press who recoiled from her strong vibrato and melodramatic impersonations. Tina left London after one performance, never to return.However, on 31 July she was welcomed with an enormous ovation at the Verona Arena when she sang in Aida with Zinetti and Pertile. After La Gioconda at Turin's Teatro Chiarella, Tina returned for a very long season at Barcelona, appearing in Aida, La Gioconda, Un Ballo in Maschera, Lucrezia Borgia, Cavalleria Rusticana and Ernani, as well as in act two of Tosca during a gala benefit. Her reviews were nothing short of magnificent and in Gioconda, she was heralded by several critics as the greatest that the city had ever seen or heard. The Liceo and Tina Poli Randaccio would continue their love affair over several more seasons.In 1921, Tina appeared at Brescia and Trieste for La Gioconda, Palermo for La Gioconda and La Fanciulla del West, Rome for Aida, the Milan Arena for La Gioconda, Vicenza for La Fanciulla del West with Ismaele Voltolini and Stabile, Venice for La Gioconda and at Parma on 29 December in a stellar revival of the Ponchielli work with Giannina Arangi Lombardi as Laura, Irene Minghini Cattaneo as La Cieca, Voltolini as Enzo, Noto as Barnaba and Bruno Carmassi as Alvise.The new year found her in revivals of La Fanciulla del West at Naples, Milan's Carcano and at Turin where she was joined by Voltolini and Apollo Granforte. The Dal Verme hosted Tina in Il Trovatore with Zinetti, John O'Sullivan and Benvenuto Franci in October, and after eleven performances of Les Huguenots at Bologna with O'Sullivan, Poli returned to Barcelona for Aida with Aurora Buades and Lazaro, Tosca with Lazaro and Les Huguenots with Cassini and Lazaro.Tina debuted at Cairo on 27 January 1923 as Gioconda and continued her season as Minnie and Santuzza, after which she repeated all three roles at Alexandria. Santuzza was the role of her return to Milan's Teatro Lirico in May and on 11 August she appeared at Venice's Lido di San Nicola in Aida with the riveting Gabriella Besanzoni. In November, Trieste saw Poli as Gioconda and on the 22nd, she sang in a gala performance of Aida at Rome's Costanzi in honor of the King and Queen of Spain. Zinetti, De Muro and Enrico Molinari completed the stellar cast and the conductor was Mascagni. Tina's year ended at Mantua with four performances of Tosca, after which she appeared at Brescia's Teatro Grande in Loreley. Neapolitan audiences appreciated her Trovatore Leonora and Romans admired her in L'Africaine with Pasini, Giulio Crimi, Molinari and Pasero and in Tosca with Crimi and Stracciari.In the summer Tina debuted at Vienna as Aida with Maria Gay, Giovanni Zenatello and Viglione-Borghese, a revival that had to be repeated sixteeen times before moving to Kaiserdam, Germany in September. Berlin saw her Santuzza before she returned to Barcelona in November for another daunting season. This time Tina sang in Aida, Les Huguenots, L'Africaine and a new work, Suor Beatrice. Though Tina Poli Randaccio is primarily remembered in Italy as the quintessential Italian dramatic soprano, she had by now appeared in twenty countries, and with the singular exception of England, had been rapturously received in all. There would be a twenty first.1925 began at Naples with L'Africaine and on 30 January, Tina returned to the Costanzi for La Fanciulla del West with Crimi and Parvis. After further performances of Tosca and Aida at the San Carlo in February, she returned to Rome for Il Trovatore and Aida. The Lido di San Nicola at Venice feted Tina to a serata di gala on 1 August as the prelude to an engagement as Aida at the Fenice, after which she sang in Tosca at Rimini with Pertile and Viglione-Borghese. In October, she returned to Genoa for La Gioconda, and on Christmas Night 1925, at Bari's Teatro Piccinni, she sang Norma for the first time. Though she sang six performances, it was not a great critical success, and she decided to drop plans for several other planned engagements in the role.Trieste's Teatro Verdi hosted Tina in Abisso and Il Trovatore at the outset of 1926, after which she sang in La Fanciulla del West at Genoa's Carlo Felice, in Aida and a Benefit Concert at Rome's Costanzi, and in Il Trovatore at Naples' San Carlo, the last with Ebe Stignani. Poli had been singing for a quarter century and it had been an enormously intense and successful twenty five years, but Father Time, as he will, began to play his inevitable role. After Naples, it was not until September that Tina again appeared on a stage, when she debuted at the Athens Arena in Aida with Franco Battaglia. And so, her year ended.La Scala beckoned one more time, and, on 9 March 1927, Tina sang in the world premiere of Guarino's Madame de Challant with Francesco Merli and Carlo Morelli, and with these three performances she said farewell to the theater that had presented her as its first Minnie, and in four world premieres.Naples again welcomed Tina for Il Trovatore and Aida, and she debuted at Modena's Teatro Comunale in April as Gioconda, and, a week later she unveiled the role of Turandot at the Comunale. At Milan's Carcano she sang in Isabeau and at year's end she returned to Barcelona for the last time, appearing in Aida and La Gioconda, with identical casts, Zinetti, Aroldo Lindi, Granforte and Vela.In February of 1928 Tina sang in Turandot at the San Carlo and in February, she bade farewell to Naples as Gioconda. In April she returned to Rome, where, at the newly named Teatro Reale, she sang for the last time, when she appeared in Il Trovatore. Her last engagement of 1928 was as Isabeau at Livorno in a revival conducted by Mascagni.In 1929, Tina sang Gioconda and Santuzza at Milan's Lirico, Turandot at Nice, which is listed in the program as the French premiere of the Puccini opera, Aida at La Spezia and Tosca at Firenze's Teatro Verdi. In 1930, her only Italian engagements were at Genoa where she sang Isabeau, Aida, and Santuzza, after which she sailed to Caracas for a season as Gioconda, Tosca, Maddalena di Coigny, Santuzza and Elena in Mefistofele. There would be no further engagements outside of Italy, and few enough in her homeland though she continued to appear for another six years.In 1931, she sang Santuzza at Bergamo, Gioconda for Italian Radio both at Rome and Turin, Gioconda in Palermo's Teatro Garibaldi, Nedda at Isola, and Aida at Biela and at Rome's Teatro Adriano. In 1932 she sang in Gioconda at Crema and in Tosca at Milan's Teatro Puccini and at Brescia. 1933 found her again at the Puccini for Isabeau, at the Adriano for Minnie and Aida, and at Milan's Politeama for Santuzza.In 1934 she returned to Norma, which had played so minor a role in her career, and she sang it at both Monza and the Lido of Pesaro. At Pesaro she also sang Santuzza, a role repeated at Milan's Arena. At year's end she sang Aida at Milan's Nazionale and at the Puccini she sang in La Forza del Destino, a role repeated at Foggia in early 1935. At Foggia she also sang Santuzza. The end came in early 1936, where at Asti and finally at Modena Tina Poli Randaccio sang her opera farwell as Santuzza. The career had encompassed nearly fifty roles, and had presented her on the stages of the World over fifteen hundred times, a monumental parade of memories for nearly two generations of opera goers.After retiring from the stage, Tina abandoned musical life almost entirely, and died at Milan on 10 February 1956.

[tfc2211]

01 - Lonesome Shack - Ernie Washington 02 -The Search Goes On - Trini Lopez 03 - Jack Hammer - Rusty Evans 04 - Ali Baba - The Champs 05 - 13 Women - Chance Halladay 06 - Hungry Man - Titus Turner 07 - Laughing At Me - Nellie Rutherford 08 - I Hate To See You Go - Little Walter 09 - Ain't That Bad - Pancho Villa & The Bandits 10 - Minnie The Moocher - Barry Martin 11 - Oh Lord Give Me My Baby Back - Bobby Nichols 12 - Satan Is Her Name - Steve King 13 - Unsquare Dance - Dave Brubeck Quartet 14 - Big Band, Little Hand - Ronny Savoy 15 - Bad Man Of Missouri - Jimmy Ricks 16 - Say There - Wesley Reynolds 17 - Eeny Meeny Minie Mo  - Little Luther 18 - Susie-Q - Denny Ezba & The Goldens 19 - Yabucoa - Hector Rivera & His Orchestra 20 - Night Walk - Dick D'Agostin And The Swingers 21 - All I Can Do Is Cry - Johnny Bond 22 - Boss Man - Deane Hawley 23 - Got To Think It Over  - Oberia Martinez 24 - Hard Working Man - Dorsey Burnette 25 - La Tanya - Jay Abbott 26 - Lover's Hell - Merle Kilgore 26 - I Gotta Run Now - Bobby Scott 27 - This Must Be Love - Ruth Christie 28 - You Want Nobody But Me - Don Carroll 29 - Downstairs - Plas Johnson & His Orchestra 30 - Shadrach mMshack and Abednego - The Wanderers 31 - Shakin' All Over - Tommy Bruce 32 - Women Are The Root Of All Evil - Paul Williams & His Orchestra

[whatispast]

The Golden Girl of the West lifted my sad Reylo heart (the murderous bandit is redeemed and gets a HEA with his love)

I spent NYE watching Great Performance’s broadcast of Puccini’s ‘The Golden Girl of the West’ by the Met Opera. It’s so beautiful. The ending is something I would have loved for Reylo. In the opera, Minnie, the owner of the Polka Saloon in a mining town, falls in love with a man named Dick Johnson, not knowing that he is actually the notorious bandit ringleader Ramerrez, come to steal the town’s gold. You can read the whole synopsis here.

Anyways, what really touched me was the ending. After being caught in the night, Ramerrez is going to be hung at dawn. Before that happens, Minnie shows up with a gun and asks for him to be set free, since he ‘died’on her cabin floor the week before after being shot by Rance, and was reborn a good man. She implores the townsmen to forgive him for the terrible things he had done, including killing their friends and stealing from them.

Minnie sings:

Look, I throw away my pistol !

Once again let me be as before,

Your loving friend, your sister,

Who once, not long ago, taught you

The best and highest teaching of

Love:

That the very worst of sinners

May be redeemed and shall find

the way to Paradise.

Minnie and the redeemed Ramerrez say farewell to all her friends (and the Sierra Nevada mountains), and leave the town forever. Everyone is deeply moved.

Also, if you love The Phantom of the Opera, ALW was sued by the Puccini foundation because the main leitmotif in the opera shows up in Music of the Night. Keep your ears peeled!

Here’s a good recording. I couldn’t find the whole opera on YT subtitled in English, but there is one in German.

And here’s a little clip near the ending of the performance I watched.

[lcndofdreamsss]

SEMIDEUSES

LUH

Johanna - Lily James (f: caos)

Reyna - Lindset Morgan (f: belona)

Loshi - Ester Exposito (d: nyx e caos)

Alyssa - Danna Paola (d: hades e afrodite)

Catarina - Maria Pedraza (d: belona e hefesto)

Lilian - Emilie de Ravin (f: hemera)

Lilith - Melanie Scrofano (d: hades e macária)

Madison - Sofia Carson (d: hefesto)

Helena - Zoey Deutch (d: nyx)

Emma - Lili Reinhart (d: apolo)

Chloe - Emma Stone (d: venus e eros)

Lara - Lana Condor (d: plutão e marte)

Riley - Emeraude Toubia (f: tanato)

Jasmine - Maia Mitchell (d: bia)

Audrey - Kat Mcnamara (f: fobos)

Mila - Kiernan Shipka (f: Íris)

Argentina - Abbey Cowen (f: éris)

Cecil - Danielle Campbell (f: nyx)

Carina - Jessica lowndes (f: nyx)

Kevin - Timothee (d: afrodite e zeus)

Madalyn - Halsey (f: erebo)

David - Nick Robinson (d: talassa e tanato)

Jean Vaughn - Lisa Teige (d: eros e caos)

Elizabeth - Josefine Frida Pettersen (d: ares e demeter)

Joseph - Tarjei Sandvik Moe (d: despina e febo)

Cornelius - Brent Antonello (f: cronos)

Laura - Amy Okuda (d: plutão e marte)

Lyria - Arden Cho (d: plutão e marte)

Lorcan - Elizabeth Henstrindge (d: apolo e artes)

Lilian - Meritt Patterson (d: caos e nyx)

Bianca -  Shen Yue (d: hades e apolo)

Donnatela Von Groeben - Candice Accola (f: gaia)

Louise - Phoebe Tonkin (f: ananque)

Valerie - Nina Dobrev (f: calígena )

Brooklyn - Daisy Ridley (d: nesos e ares )

Minnie - Claire Holt (f: caos)

Veronica - Lauren German (f: nyx)

Shancai - Jennie (f:eros)

Diamanta - Mari maria (f:venus)

Santiago -  Aidan Gallagher (d: belona e hefesto)

Teresa - Ana de armas (d: belona e hefesto)

Alice - Eiza Gonzalez (d:ares e afrodite)

Gianna - Margot Robbie (f:nyx)

Ashley - Dakota Johnson (f: erebo)

Hazel - Emmy raver-lampman (f: plutão)

Annabeth - Melissa Benoist (f: atena)

Nico - Tom Hiddleston (f: hades)

Zoe - Eliza Taylor (d: poseidon e atena)

Polly - Teresa Palmer (f: erebo)

Mileva - Emilia Clarke (f: bia)

Gahana - Bae Joohyun (f: amaterasu) 

Jin Fei - Chloe Bennet (f: Susanoo)

Dominika - Sarah Desjardins (f: baba yaga) 

Andrei - Richard Harmon (f: Marzanna ) 

Isleen - Tasya Teles (f: Morrigan) 

Careena - Madelaine Petsch (f: Manannán Mac Lir)

Anna Julia - Camila Mendes (f: Anhangá)

Thaís - Camila Queiroz (f: Akuanduba)

Freyja - Mary Elizabeth Winstead (f: loki)

Talassa - Alexandra Daddario (f: balder) 

Teagen - Alycia debnam-carey (f:cailic)

Viktoriya - Kristine Froseth (d: nyx e caos)

Alula Castellan - Rachel Keller (d: zeus e hermes)

Orion Castellan - Cody Christian (d: zeus e hermes)

Layla Zhang - jeong heyoon (d: plutão e marte)

Otello Cameron - James Macvoy (f: poseidon)

Julieta Cameron - Sophie Turner (d: poseidon e zeus )

Daisy - Lily Collins (d: marte e apolo)

Drusilla - Jennifer Lawrence (d: despoina e jano)

Afrodite Campbell - Emily Browning (f: Afrodite)

Harlow - Zendaya Coleman (d: caos e talassa)

Otis - Chadwick Boseman (f: Caos)

Juniper - Inbar Lavi (f: talassa)

Mathew - Martin Freeman (f: urano)

Isabella Kuntz - Amanda Seyfried (f: venus)

Pheonté Ingram - Tessa Thompson (d: marte e hermes)

Sussie Frandsen - Yvonne Strahovski (f: érebo)

Bjor Gislisson - Henrik Holm (f: Forseti)

Ygritte Haddottir - Gina Steibz (f: Freya)

Dalla Sturladottir - Lisa Vicari (f: Hel)

Ingjald Torstensson - Taron Egerton (f: Odin)

Peter Alighieri-  Tye Sheridan (d: hades e macaria)

Leonora Di Angelo - Benedetta Gargari (d: apolo e hades)

Ophelia Cameron - Sadie Sink (d: poseidon e zeus)

Joyce Di Angelo - Millie Bobby Brown (d: apolo e hades)

Antoni O'Doral - luke kleintank (f: hades)

Poppy O'Molony - Conor Lesllie (d: ares e athena)

Leslie  Rochfort - Meryl Streep (f:apolo)

Learchos Rochfort - Scott Eastwood (d:apolo e ares)

Analia Reinhart - Jessica Chastain (f: ananque)

Grayson Kauffman-Algumacoisa - Jaeden Lieberher (d: maui e erebo)

Jacob Kauffman-Algumacoisa - Noah Schnapp  (d: maui e erebo)

Savannah Kauffman-Algumacoisa - Maddie Ziegler (d: maui e erebo)

Arabella Reinhart - Alexandra Park (d: ananque)

Amelia Reinhart - Francesca Capaldi (d: ananque)

Adonis Reinhart - Asher Angel (d: ananque)

Brianna Kade - Hayley Atwell

Faith Kade - Adelaide Kane

Levi Kade - Jack Falahee

Sophie Von Groeben - Sydney Sweeney  (d: hades, marte e gaia)

Luna Von Groeben - Britt Robertson (d: hades, marte e gaia)

Clara Amoretto - Emeraude Toubia

Julliana  Amoretto - Camila Mendes

Celeste  Amoretto - Camila Cabello

Stella Amoretto - Karla Souza

Acacia Dunhall - Bryce Dallas Howard

Sondra Eberhardt - Wyonna Ryder

Jelani Turner - Chance Perdomo

Veronika Eberhardt Torres - Sofia Carson

Hylla Avilla - Melissa Fumero

Richard Avilla-Algumacoisa - Booboo Stewart

Rain Avilla - Brenna D’Amico

Piper Mclain - Diane Guerrero

Tinker Lazar- Holland Roden

Kace Baxter - Michael Fassbender

Millicent Anttonen - Sophia Bush

Anna-Liisa Heinonen - Claire Holt

Mabel Sotto - Lily James

Regan Polinsky - Colin O’Donoghe

Moira Beckett - Laura Prepon

Spring Campbell -  Katheryn Winnick 

Tristan McLean - Ryan Potter  

Noe - Tiera Skobvye 

Megan West - Elizabeth Olsen 

Sophia Illis - Phoebe Tonkin

Calypso - Jessica Abel

Paris Hale - Ben platt - Paris Hale

Jimmy Dean - Jonathan Groff 

Paige McDermott - Danielle Panabaker 

Starlight - Chyler Leigh

Savannah O’kelly - Caity Lotz 

Naomi MacClancy - Sarah Drew 

Wilhelma Nicolaisen - Caterina Scorsone

Amalie Desmond - Ellen Pompeo

Nina Nicolaisen - Odeya Rush

Clove Desmond - Minka Kelly

BERNIE

Meghan Ory - Cassie Hale

Lee Min Ho - Larry Zhang - História

Adam Senn - Gideon Burke - Geografia

Armie Hammer - Frederick Powell - Química

Gaspard - Finn Jones

Leo - robert sheehan

Dean Xavier - charlie cox

Adam Drivier - Alexander Kruggler - Matemática

Daniel Gillies - Aston Marvin

Ian Somehalder - Shawn Benz

Joseph Morgan - Michael McLaren - (caos)

Ben Barnes - Victor

Chris Evans - Cole Hopkins

Paul Wesley - Kurt Von Groeben - (Gaia)

Tom Ellis - John Makkachin (Elise filha)

Chris Wood - Kai Zammeti

Álvaro Rico - Keith Louvier

Miguel Herran - Thomas Avilla-Valdez 

Miguel Bernardeau - Samuel Avilla-Valdez

Glen Powell - Lysander Desmond (Ares e Apolo)

Andrew Garfield - Evan Peter Kauffman

Noah Centineo - Lucas Santiago (Morfeu)

Shawn Mendes - Gale Bradock (Hemera)

Thomas Hayes - William Lynch

Herman Tømmeraas - Patrick McCarthy

Hunter Parrish - Cody Maddok (Apolo e Demeter)

Ross Lynch - Harvey Kinkle  (Hefesto e Zeus)

Cole Sprouse - Dante Aligere (Hades e Afrodite)

David Castro - Jett Pierce

Dominic Sherwood - Hunter Castro

Matt Daddario - Jackson Kade (hipnos e demeter)

Alperen Duymaz - Klaus Markson

Douglas Booth - Dick Griffin

Will Tudor - Andrew Desmond

Henrik Holm - Robert Jackson

Iain De Caestecker - Salazar

Nicholas Buzolic - Mikkel Nikoforov

Daniel Sharman - Nicholas Di Angelo

Michael Fassbender - Kit Baxter 

Nicholas Hoult - Laurence Keegan

Jeremy Irvine - Grayson Mills

Josh Dylan - Rupert Kingsley

Tom Hardy - Khalid Morgan

Tom Hiddleston - Deacon Price

Winston Duke - Jahmiah Whitaker

Sebastian Stan - Jay Macdonald

Grace Phipps - Daphiel Burke

Benedict Cumberbatch - Ray Burton

Michael B Jordan - Kingston Turner

Dominic Cooper - Lewis Mcfarland

Max Mighella - Jude Fowler

Laura Harrier -  Chelsea Ingram

Moritz Jahn - Drifa Sturlason

Louis Hoffman - Banki Bjalfisson

Paul Lux - Ulf Gudasson

Lea van acken - Skuld “Sacks” Agnarsdottir

Liam Payne - Koby Armstrong

[nowandforalways]

- Minnie, rushing in to save Dick Johnson’s ass

sir that’s my emotional support cowboy 

[mstanyawinslow]

Deborah Voigt and Marcello Giordani

[muchadoabout]

top 5 opera couples 💕

First of all, thank you 💛

My list, my rules!

Tristan and Isolde (how could you ever top Liebestod??)

Marcello and Musetta (I said it once and I'll say this again; they deserve their own spin-off!)

Figaro and Susanna (imagine having them as your parents)

Carlo and Rodrigo (duh)

Minnie and Dick Johnson (per sempre)

[omg-lucio]

La ópera del vaquero de Puccini protagonizada por Enrico Caruso (bajo el árbol) - La Fanciulla del West - 1910

Puccini completó La fanciulla del West , basada en una obra de David Belasco, en 1910. Fue encargada por la Ópera Metropolitana de Nueva York y se representó por primera vez en Nueva York el 10 de diciembre de 1910 con las estrellas del Met Enrico Caruso y Emmy Destinn, para quienes Puccini creó los papeles principales de Dick Johnson y Minnie. Toscanini, entonces director musical del Met, dirigió. Este fue el primer estreno mundial de una ópera en el Met.

[dando-la-nota-tormentito]

Una pica en el Artxanda

Fecha: 15-II-2020. Lugar: Palacio Euskalduna, Bilbao. Programa: La fanciulla del West, ópera en tres actos de Giacomo Puccini. Protagonistas: Oksana Dyka (Minnie), Marco Berti (Dick Johnson, alias Ramerrez), Claudio Sgura (Jack Race), Francisco Vas (Nick), Manel Esteve (Sonora), Paolo Battaglia (Ashby), Manuel de Diego (Trin), Isaac Galán (Sid), Carlos Daza (Bello), Jorge Rodríguez-Norton (Harry), Gerardo López (Joe), José Manuel Díaz (Happy), Fernando Latorre (Larkens), Cristian Díaz (Billy Jackrabbit / José Castro), Itxaro Mentxaka (Wowkle), David Lagares (Jake Wallace), Santiago Ibáñez (Postiglione). Coro: Ópera de Bilbao. Orquesta: Sinfónica de Euskadi. Director de escena: Hugo de Ana. Director musical y maestro concertador: Josep Caballé Domenech. Producción: ABAO Bilbao Ópera y Teatro San Carlo di Napoli.

La expresión de ‘poner una pica en Flandes’ se utiliza para indicar que se ha realizado algo muy complejo y además constituye todo un éxito. Pues bien, en esta ocasión, con la puesta en escena de la ópera pucciniana La fanciulla del West -raramente representada, salvo en USA- por parte de ABAO Ópera Bilbao se ha puesto una pica en el Artxanda; monte que abraza a la Villa de don Diego de Haro por el noreste. Bien puede ser considerado como un importante evento musical a nivel nacional.

Se nos presenta una composición lírica arto compleja desde el punto de vista de estructura orquestal, en la que Puccini rompe con todos los moldes líricos precedentes y subsiguientes, desbrozando arias, recitativos, concertantes canoros, y dejando un enramado que bien pudiera constituir, en esta época, una ópera muy apta para sensibilidad musical de las jóvenes generaciones. En las construcciones armónicas aparecen colores que recuerdan a su Manon Lescaut, La Bohéme o Madama Butterfly, y nos adelantan otros que florecen en Turandot, pero que es rompedora y abre cauces nuevos de expresividad melódica. Bien podr��a decirse, sin ánimo de ofender a nadie, que La fanciulla del West es la menos pucciniana de todas las que compuso Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini, a la par que la más rica en orquestación.

El entramado escénico resultó interesante, máxime sabiendo lo detallista que es Hugo de Ana, presente en el saludo final pese a encontrarse en una acentuada situación febril; empero no resultó el lujo que de él siempre se espera, dada una excesiva deambulación de personas en el primer acto y errores ambientales en la proyección de imágenes sobre el ciclorama de fondo, salvo la de la escena final colocando el tramondo rosso sobre las calcáreas tierras desérticas de Arizona. Por lo demás, a nivel genérico, cuidadosa toda de la ambientación, sobresaliendo el carruaje de la Wells Fargo. Una producción escénica digna de verse y de ser viajada.

En el foso y ante semejante complejidad de partitura se estaba la batuta de Caballé Domenech que hizo una labor digna de todo elogio, domeñando a una importante formación orquestal, cual es la Sinfónica de Euskadi, a la que tuvo que embridar constantemente, sobre todo en la primera fase el acto I, para que el volumen que sale de abajo no fuera una muralla sónica de difícil traspaso para las voces. A partir de esos instantes todo discurrió, musicalmente hablando, con la precisión de un reloj suizo, dejando lucir las dinámicas, los buenos colores de las secciones y controlando en todo momento la complejidad que supone concertar tantas voces que interviene de seguido. No ha de olvidarse que en reducido número de compases hay diez los solistas que cantan distintos textos. A todo eso - ¡casi nada! -  Caballé Domenech dio la respuesta cabal y exquisita.

En el terreno vocal merece cita especial el buen hacer del coro y el de las voces de todos los comprimarios, destacando la categoría, en el segundo acto, de la lekeitioarra Mentxaka como la india Wowkle. No estuvo a la altura de lo esperado el tenor italiano Berti, con una tesitura aguda un tanto remisa, trabajando el canto legato en modo rudo. El resultado de famosa y esperada aria Ch’ella mi creda libero e lontano, fue de lo más simple, carente de expresión y de sentido, casi plana. Buen perfil vocal tiene el barítono pugliense Sgura con una presencia corpórea importante, administrado bien todo el esfuerzo que le supone desarrollar, durante tres intensos actos su papel de sheriff celoso y bravucón. Descubrir a una soprano di forza, como es la ucraniana Dyka, de estructura impactante, fue la sorpresa de la velada. Un buen fichaje de ABAO Opera Bilbao. Su Minnie, quitando los primeros minutos de indecisión en la emisión que le dieron un vibrato incómodo, fue todo un portento de poder y de conocimiento del personaje, sobre todo en sus dos recitativos, tenso con dúo hermoso el primero, y tierno el segundo, que acomete en los actos II y III, respectivamente. No es de extrañar que, dada la presencia en el evento de algunos agentes artísticos, pronto la veamos triunfando en coliseos españoles, como lo hizo en el Maestranza dando voz a la Princesa Turandot.

Manuel Cabrera

 P.D. Esta critica ha sido publicada, con fecha 18 de febrero de 2020, en la revista digital Beckmesser,com cuya general consulta se recomienda desde este blog. ¡Gracias!

[ansiklomedia]

Batının Altın Kızı Operası Konusu (Giacomo Puccini)

Batının Altın Kızı Operası Konusu (Giacomo Puccini)

Üç perdelik operadır. Guelfo Civinini ve Carlo Zangarini. Giacomo Puccini 1910 New York. 1968 Ankara. Nick (Tenor), Jack Ranee (Bariton), Jack Wallace (Bariton), Ashby (Bariton), Minnie (Soprano), Dick Johnson (Tenor) ve altın arayıcıları. 19. yüzyıl ortalarında California.

Akşam olmuş, altın arayıcılar kampın barına dolmuşlardır. Barın sahibesi Minnie adlı genç, güzel bir kızdır.…

[the-amorous-colocynth]

Alfred Hofbauer as Jack Rance, Maria Jeritza as Minnie, and Alfred Piccaver as Dick Johnson in Puccini's Das Mädchen aus dem goldenen Westen

[soundchannel]

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