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shredsandpatches · 1 year ago

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BRANDER MY MAN. He gets to show up for five minutes just to beat Mephistopheles in a bass throwdown and walk away with the scene (at least in the Berlioz version -- it's not framed as a throwdown exactly but while the flea song is great the rat song is even better)

i love looking too deeply into joke characters. it's like a court jester jingled onto the stage and started performing and i stood up in my seat and wailed audibly

#we had a really delightful guy in this role when i was in la damnation #a young up and coming singer #held up his end of the scene against john motherfucking relyea #and was the tallest person onstage #i hope he gets to do the three devils in the not too distant future #of course gounod just gives meph one of the greatest opera arias EVER instead #in place of the flea song #berlioz does a better version of the serenade than gounod tho #and he has the gorgeous and homoerotic 'voici des roses'#la damnation de faust

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