Petit Chérubin

I forgot how fucking funny the libretto of La finta giardiniera is

#contino???#Do they... do they call him conte somewhere in this or is he just little guy (derogatory)?#the page reblogs #la finta giardinera

like man.

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lipstickhamlet

look you can't say [shakespeare character] HAS TO BE [thing] without exception in every single production, otherwise you're kind of misunderstanding why we put on these 400-year plays over and over again with different twists and modern adaptational choices each time. because theatre isn't stagnant. every actor & director chooses to focus on a different aspect of the play to highlight and draw out different messages and meanings from the same text. you can't be saying [shakespeare play] HAS TO include [this scene] or have [this interpretation] or portray something [this way] or whatever every single time without exception because WHYYYY would we be still putting them on!!! if every production of hamlet made hamlet the same age and put it in the same era and had gertrude know or not know claudius' murder and so on and so forth we would've stopped putting it on ages ago!!!! shakespeare's modern day appeal is its versatility !!!

#not to mention all the other things people have done with the plays!!#Like make them into operas and novelisations and more!#[insert required Enchanted Island mention here]#the page reblogs #shakespeare

#I need to see this #la finta giardinera #the page reblogs

wuv <3

Thanks to @unulf0 for sending me this production of Giulio Cesare 🤣🤣

#opera #operablr #Giulio Cesare #Giulio Cesare in Egitto #danielle de niese #the enchanted island

it's so hateful when Pierre Audi does something extremely well

#I've been in pierre audi's “vacation home”#which is an old cloister he bought #I was allowed to play an early 19th century harpsichord he had there #while being harassed by his spoiled kid #it was weird when he died #because I had sat in his chair and slept in his house and the nanny judged me #because I'm a gender nonconforming person who used the harpsichord to work on my pieces to be admitted to conservatory #what a difficult life that must have been #opera #operablr #the page reblogs #pierre audi

like this shit is mesmerizing. infuriating

derring-do

are you fucking new here

#“it violates the clear farcical contract”??#my guy have you heard of INTERPRETATION #also Sher is gay so you know #the page reblogs #le comte ory #opera #operablr #i am very protective over this production

Horrid take, none of the potential seen :((

How is it ever implied that Isolier is not a man in this production? Can Ory not be bi?? Can they all not be bi and poly and happy???

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isaddeos

Le comte Ory free recordings masterpost

hi! below is every full recording of Awesome Opera that i've been able to find! will be updated in the future, probably, as i don't have enough energy to watch/comment on/review all of these at once.

#always happy to watch more comte ory #le comte ory #operablr #opera #the page reblogs

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

(There's more! I saw like 3 productions I haven't seen eeeeeee)

herius-is-drawing

LOUDER‼️🗣️

#ohh this is beautiful!!#is that meant to be la boheme?#opera #operablr #ballet #the page reblogs

opera-shitpost

Haven't posted here in a while, but just had to jump on the bandwagon while the tea is still hot.

#this is so so funny to me #especially as someone who finished conservatory #the arts are alive and he is sorely missing out!#the page reblogs #opera #operablr #ballet

derring-do

Some Operatic Mini-Genres:

It's Problematic When the King is Gay

Król Roger

Lessons in Love and Violence

She Should Have Married the Mezzo

Norma

Faust

The Queen of Spades

Madama Butterfly

Surely You Won't Regret Inviting That Twink Into Your House

Saul

Written on Skin

Le Nozze di Figaro

This Opera Would Not Exist if Safe and Reliable Birth Control Did

Jenůfa

Faust

Reviewers Get Weirdly Cruel When a Particular Performer is Not Sufficiently Attractive to Them Personally

Billy Budd

Król Roger

Devoted Friend May Be a Little in Love, Actually

Rodelinda

Tristan und Isolde

Don Carlo

Theodora

and, of course:

Figaro is Here

#i spelled that wrong #idk how to spell his name right and I'm too sleepy to look it up #the page reblogs #opera #operablr

I know I saw this before but! I did not notice some of these and idk why

The addition of Theodora sent me into a fit of hysterical laughter. Idk if anyone saw the posters and video of the RBO recent production but istg Theodora and Irene have more chemistry than Theodora and Didymus.

infinitelytheheartexpands

rossini: *writes a grand coloratura soprano scena and puts it in two operas*

“en proie à la tristesse” from le comte ory and the ensuing cabaletta: legitimate emotional crisis about making a religious vow she doesn’t know if she can keep and rejoicing when she is (allegedly) freed from it

“partir, o ciel, desio” from il viaggio a reims and the ensuing cabaletta:

#yeah viaggio is like that lol #the page reblogs #le comte ory #il viaggio al reims #opera #operablr

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starting agrippina now.

the translating-this-to-modern-times thing has me a bit iffy, but i'm into the mausoleum setting!

nerone is supposed to be a soprano aaAAAAAAAAA

brenda rae! brenda rae! <3

act 1, scene 1

opening shot is really feckin' cool

i know i said i don't like how they cast kate lindsey as nerone, but i'd be lying if i said she wasn't really talented. and really, really hot.

relatedly, i'm also kind of confused as to why they also changed agrippina from a soprano to a mezzo-soprano. then again, joyce didonato could sing literally any character out there.

i'm not sure if her part has been transposed. will have to check after watching. regardless, i do feel like joyce is using a higher register here.

nerone worm.

nerone?? hello. why are you. nerone. that is your mother.

i'll be honest, i don't get many of the things nerone is doing in his aria.

...that could probably be explained by the crack, couldn't it.

that high note around the end... ough... ( yeah, yeah. opera singer hits a high note. everyone claps. call me basic or whatever. )

act 1, scene 2

nothing to say other than "agrippina <3"

act 1, scene 3

agrippina has had sexual tension with every named character revealed so far, huh.

the staircase makes me think of cheddar and it's threatening to make me hungry again.

"CLAUDIO!?"

the aria starts up way too abruptly. the short instrumental after pallante sings the first words does do a bit to ease one into the rest of it, though.

the dance numbers coupled with military costumes make me think of glyndebourne cesare

i don't know the fellow who plays pallante, but there's something familiar about him. i'll have to look into other stuff he's been in.

act 1, scene 5

narciso has a gorgeous voice!! i don't know how to describe it other than "silky."

my point about sexual tension stands.

agrippina hitting the key-smash there.

love the instrumental of "volo pronto." the light sound of the winds complements narciso's voice nicely.

that squeal he lets out? jlkdhfjwlf????

oh. wait.

oh.

i did not notice what agrippina was doing there.

act 1, scene 6

something something about how "dramatic contraltos with high hair" has always been a type of character i've been fond of. i suppose met opera agrippina is close enough. mezzo-contralto merger and all that.

anyways, it goes without saying that i really like "l'alma mia fra le tempeste"

just now noticed the names written on the backdrop. didn't get enough time to process them all, though, but i did notice a "nero [something]" that was crossed out. hmmm.

act 1, scene 7

cocaine baby.

kate's voice is far too dark for this. however, kate in a suit.

news reporter?

news reporter.

act 1, scene 8

living for narciso and pallante's interactions

act 1, scene 9

i quite like agrippina's recitative bit being framed as an interview

quartet!!

narciso's part goes surprisingly low in the quartet.

oh, like this. i like this a lot.

*trumpets*

act 1, scene 10

brilliant introduction of the guy whose name i cannot say! also his arietta sounds familiar.

that one line all four of them deliver at oOTTONE

act 1, scene 11

OTTONE IS HERE

he's cute

and everyone else is Coping and Seething. love the character put into the asides.

act 1, scene 12

the news reporter is still there?? i'll be honest, the arrangement of the people on the stage is pretty messy at various points and so... y'know.

something about the way the strings move in "tu ben degno" reminds me of a cobra slithering through the grass, waiting to strike.

i am watching the image of ottone on a screen, which itself is an image on my own screen. hooray for recursion.

act 1, scene 13

tony aria!!

...did he just take a selfie.

anyways. he's very cute. did i forget to mention that he's cute?

oh, hello lesbo.

act 1, scene 14

and hello poppea!

and the return of the woodwinds! i love the woodwinds!

( mentions pearls )( puts a string of pearls on )

i also really like the staging here, where we have poppea 1) standing on a set-piece 2) wearing a glittery, light-coloured outfit 3) spot-lit, while everyone's gathered around her. the stairs might do better to frame the scene if they were smaller.

act 1, scene 15

the contrast between brenda rae's speaking voice and singing voice never fails to take me aback. i know plenty of sopranos sound lighter when they talk ( and the reverse is also true ) but still. and honestly, i like it.

act 1, scene 16

AGRIPPINA. OUT OF NOWHERE.

act 1, scene 17

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHEEHEEHEE"

i love poppea's little mannerisms. the hand-flapping, all that.

act 1, scene 18

they just skipped poppea delivering an aside at the beginning of the scene and had her squealing happily and running up to agrippina.

and they're wearing matching dresses!

oohoohoo. drama.

what i said about sexual tension? yes, it's back.

and they skipped the aria. i was looking forward to that. there's a bit in the aviary of air ( thing i'm writing, i'm not revealing much at the moment but you're free to check out what i've posted under that tag on my main blog ) where someone sings that. and so, y'know.

act 1, scene 19

poppy t-shirt.

if i had a [small monetary unit] for every time a character in a met production got half-naked and changed clothes right there on the stage, i'd have... several.

i like the city backdrop! and i like the little noises poppea makes when she isn't singing. those have been there since she first came in, but still. small poppy noises.

act 1, scene 20

the ever-present lesbo:

oghhhh i love the set design here. how vast and dark everything is.

act 1, scene 21

i'd like another [small monetary unit], please.

i already don't like claudio.

the necktie bite??

say what you want about modern casual wear in opera, but that sweater really suits brenda

NO NO NO WHY ARE YOU TAKING OFF YOUR. NO. NO UNUNUNUNUH. NO.

act 1, scene 22

return of the les. he just keeps walking in on poppea at the worst moments, doesn't he?

terzetto, hell yeah.

act 1, scene 23

i do appreciate the contrast between poppea in the aforementioned outfit and agrippina wearing something more sophisticated-looking. also a big fan of the height difference between them.

...is that the melody from. feckin'. that one aria from flavio. "di quel bel che m'innamora."

heavens above, it is. i mean, there are obviously some differences, particularly in the direction the vocal line takes, but the aria as a whole is still quite recognisably. y'know. cuniberto, baby boy, what are you doing here?

act 1, scene 24

oghhhhh... the use of colours here. red backdrop tinted by the blue lighting over the entire set ( which is still largely in darkness ), along with a small square of yellow light from a doorway.

i just realised, that piece of furniture poppea was standing on in her first aria + that agrippina put the wine-glasses on is poppea's tomb.

and now a curtain's come down and the light's changed to white, and so we have poppy gorging herself and singing against a red void... with two babies sucking a wolf's teats coming into view ( yes, i'm aware those are romulus and remus, i'm just being facetious. )

#agrippina #opera #operablr #the page reblogs

I watched this production while recovering from wisdom tooth extraction and I'm glad it's interesting and slightly unhinged even when not being used as coping material 🤣🤣

Speaking of the glyndebourne cesare... I've been wanting to watch that for ages! (As I love danielle de niese). Do you have an idea where one could find a recording? 👀

isaddeos

Le comte Ory free recordings masterpost

hi! below is every full recording of Awesome Opera that i've been able to find! will be updated in the future, probably, as i don't have enough energy to watch/comment on/review all of these at once.