#operafan

Joan sings the endless trills from "Spargi d'amaro pianto." Lucia di Lammermoor. BBC, 1973. Did any other singer interpolated trills on this aria? 🤔

"We met at the opera more than twenty years ago. Since then we have been living a triangular relationship very intensively with all devotion. Love stories are relationships in which something happens between two people. But something third should be added, to make it interesting and lasting. With us it is: the opera. About opera as an art form: Yes, it is realistic: We experience it with all our senses. At the same time, it is completely anti-realistic. Anyone who tries to put something realistic on an opera stage doesn't understand what it's all about. What we experience very real with our senses has absolutely nothing to do with reality. Opera is THE mannerist art form per se. There is no other way. It is not for nothing that opera came into being when mannerist art reached its peak in Italy. And now to Wagner's music, tonight at a SIEGFRIED performance at Staatsoper Berlin: Nietzsche used to say: Wagner's music is fatal to woman, overthrows the strongest bulls and is not for anemic youngsters. The prerequisite for this intense effect is a good performance. In search for it, we are both always on the move in our triangularity, without interruption and without signs of fatigue.” #operalove #operafan #audience #triangularity #operalover #instaopera (hier: Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, Deutschland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cki481BDRH3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

“Experiencing Opera is going into far beyond what daily life could possibly reach. Music starts when breathing seams to be insufficient. Singing starts when words are no longer enough.” - (Carla Cottini) #opera #operafan #operalover #audience (hier: Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, Deutschland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkUAl8JMuY1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

“Visiting the opera felt like entering a completely different world which was unexpectedly easy to dive into. The perfectly orchestrated performance was a unique, impressive and complex artwork which captivated me completely. I highly recommend visiting the opera!” #operalove #operalover #operafan #audience #deutscheoperberlin (hier: Deutsche Oper Berlin) https://www.instagram.com/p/CV0EHoyMLLp/?utm_medium=tumblr

"I first experienced my first opera, FIDELIO, as a little girl, decades ago in the old opera house in Essen. At that performance, a particularly fat and also somewhat ugly lady sang Fidelio. I could not understand how that could be an handsome young man with whom one falls in love. But I felt and sensed something at that time. I understood immediately: This is musical theater. It goes beyond the framework. It is both music AND theater, it is closely connected and opens up completely new dimensions. It takes us into the vastness and heights and depths of humanity and the humanly possible. Since that time, opera has never let me go.” #operalove #operalover #operafan #deutscheoperberlin #audience (hier: Deutsche Oper Berlin) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVvFFz_Mg52/?utm_medium=tumblr

"Opera is life-defining for me. I cannot and will not do without opera. Once a week I'm sure to go to a performance. We are flying to Italy tomorrow and on Wednesday I will go to the opera again. A good twenty years ago I discovered opera for myself at the deepest bottom of my soul. It is the direction in my life.” #operafan #operalove #operalover #audience #deutscheoperberlin (hier: Deutsche Oper Berlin) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVm9cUoMiBm/?utm_medium=tumblr

„A vibrating and moving evening. If opera had previously opened up the tender in me, this evening opened up a universe. What depth, what humour, what a spot landing. BRAVO! This Götterdämmerung captivates me, opens my heart and soul, tells me everything about the necessary newness that must come into the world and then ends with a lightness that inspires me. The moment became infinite and only repetition will create even more depth. That this Götterdämmerung, of all things, now leads to the starting point of my journey into the Wagner universe, delights me beyond measure.“ #operafan #operalove #audience #deutscheoperberlin #operalover (hier: Deutsche Oper Berlin) https://www.instagram.com/p/CViJsBGMqij/?utm_medium=tumblr

"Opera enlightens my soul. It brings me into a completely different, very individual and yet very true life. I leave reality outside for a few hours and deal with the generally human and all its depth. Music gives me access to sensations, which I in turn experience as intense feelings. Feelings of any kind. In addition, at every performance I am captivated by the action on stage, the direction, the stage design, the lighting, the costumes, the make-up, the creative ideas of the team. No other art form can do that like opera. Opera has the greatest impact on me imaginable.” #operafan #operalover #deutscheoperberlin #audience (hier: Deutsche Oper Berlin) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVVIeI9MpLf/?utm_medium=tumblr