mr magorium's opera emporium

its actually an opera if it has a v shaped snout with visible bottom teeth and a musical if it has a u shaped snout and an overbite. and an Oratorio is a weird effeminate gharial with a self esteem problem

did absolutely nothing today except play like 5 hours of fucking wolfquest

just remembered part of my internship will be (partially) operating the social media accounts. (redacted summerstock) instagram is about to be run like the NAVY

but also “this character would be much more interesting if she was a woman” is just often the way of the world !

the problem is i think a lot of the verdi baritone archetype opera characters who are obsessed with family legacy and the way they perform their own genders immediately become way way more interesting if they’re women. the trovatore where she’s the countess di luna and she is desperately trying as a masc-leaning lesbian to fit into a world that hates her in the deluded hopes she can prove herself and become the #Exception (while also being bent over backwards about the soprano going ‘i want the choice in this love triangle that signifies reckless freedom and going against societal grain!… i’m picking the man!’) would not SOLVE the essential dramaturgical problems of trovatore but it would at least make characters who aren’t azucena considerably more interesting.