I love that opera sits in this limbo where it's extremely well-known but not really beyond a surface level recognition, so you get commercials for makeup or whatever to the tune of the I Hate Women So Much It's Unreal aria
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I love that opera sits in this limbo where it's extremely well-known but not really beyond a surface level recognition, so you get commercials for makeup or whatever to the tune of the I Hate Women So Much It's Unreal aria

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okay this is officially the best response i’ve seen to the timothée chalamet debacle
Absolute scenes in Pesaro
in honor of black history month here in the US, i'd like to highlight something i think is pretty exciting.
last year, opera lafayette (nyc and dc) and operacréole (new orleans) collaborated on producing the very first performance of morgiane by edmond dédé. dédé was a prolific black creole composer hailing from new orleans in the 19th century, and professionally active primarily in france. despite his success as a composer, his four-act french grand opera morgiane was never performed in his lifetime, and was lost for over a hundred years, until its manuscript was discovered in a library and painstakingly transcribed very recently.
and now, you can hear it too:
opera lafayette has just released a full, live recorded album of this work, which may very well be the very first full length opera ever written by a black american composer in history. i had the good fortune to be able to hear one of the performances in person last year, and i quite enjoyed it; but more than that, i believe the opera itself, as well as its new recognition and revival, is an accomplishment worth sharing, and worth celebrating.
(more on dédé and late 19th century new orleans musical culture deserves to be said, but is beyond the scope of this post. this article is a decent, if only-scratching-the-surface, place to start.)
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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
Hey since we talkin Opera bc of some cracker, take a minute to check out Babatunde’s Hip-Hopera it’s a bop and he’s so goddamn good
Happy Opera Pride! 🌈🌈🌈 Der Rosenkavalier (Robert Carsen, 2017) Don Carlo (Emilio Sagi, 2016) L'incoronazione di Poppea (Jan Lauwers, 2018) Adelaide di Borgogna (Arnaud Bernard, 2023) Platée (Jetske Mijnssen, 2023) Benamor (Christof Loy, 2026) Alcina (Robert Carsen, 2021) Champion (James Robinson, 2023) Ariodante (Robert Carsen, 2023) Les Pêcheurs de perles (Timothy Nelson, 2015) Der Rosenkavalier (Josef Ernst Köpplinger, 2021) Arabella (Tobias Kratzer, 2021)
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