xenia's lair

Owned slaves

Served in the Roman military industrial complex

Be born into generational wealth

Be born into an aristocratic class that literally had different laws and punishments applied to them than everyone else

Got appointed (NOT elected) to the senate

Was a coloniser and actively colonised

Thing Caesar did that made a mere 60 of the Roman Senators decide to stab him:

Introduced legislation that said the senators had to pay their employees

Expanded the senate to give representation to leaders of the places they'd colonised

Gave citizenship to the people they'd colonised

Extended voting rights to the colonised people

Promised land to veterans

Refused a crown dramatically

Decided to change his role from ELECTED Dictator for a Term to Dictator for Life.

And if you're thinking "huh, i was tagging ides of march posts about how much I wish my elected representatives would kill a certain orange turd and this doesn't sound anything like him" ...yeah.

Because the orange turd and USAer senate is NOT like Caesar and the Roman senate.

And no. It's not okay to pretend or spread misinformation pretending it's the same thing to try to encourage people to deal with your turd.

If you swoon over Brutus agonising over whether to side with his friend/mentor/mother's fuckbuddy no really or preserve the ancent traditions of his people and repeat the actions of his ancestor who killed the last king of Rome? That's fine. He's a fascinating figure and I want to put him in a jar and shake him.

su mer lovin’ “scream at own ass”

1st: [Previously postponed, not 100% confirmed but on the website] Verdi's Luisa Miller from Wiener Staatsoper. Featuring Nadine Sierra, Freddie De Tommaso, and Roberto Tagliavini. Free!

4th: Bizet's Carmen from Malmö Opera. Featuring Claudio Ribas, Matthew White, and Luthando Qave. Rental.

5th: Verdi's Nabucco from Wiener Staatsoper. Featuring Anna Netrebko, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, and Ivan Magrì. Free (with registration)!

6th: Dusapin's Antigone from the Paris Philharmonie. Featuring Christel Loetzsch, Anna Prohaska,and Tómas Tómasson. Free!

7th: Nicole Car Masterclass from Opera for Peace. Free!

8th: Ponchielli's La Gioconda from Gran Teatre del Liceu. Featuring Saioa Hernández, Michael Fabiano, John Relyea, and Violeta Urmana. Rental or season subscription.

8th: The Victoria de los Ángeles Centennial Gala from Gran Teatre del Liceu. Featuring a group of sopranos and mezzos, including Joyce DiDonato, Louise Alder, Marina Viotti, and Juliana Grigoryan, singing de los Ángeles's favorite arias and lieder. Free!

12th: Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito from Wiener Staatsoper. Featuring Emily D'Angelo, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, and Katleho Mokhoabane. Free (with registration)!

[Technically, Midsummer at Teatro Real could show up during these two weeks but I guarantee it won't. Look for it in the next post - it's got a great cast]