Bachstage

I hang out backstage for professional reasons.

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Giuseppe Verdi playing with three big dogs.

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“Hier spricht Elektra. Im Herzen der Finsternis. Unter der Sonne der Folter. An die Metropolen der Welt. Im Namen der Opfer. Ich stoße allen Samen aus, den ich empfangen habe. Ich verwandle die Milch meiner Brüste in tödliches Gift. Ich nehme die Welt zurück, die ich geboren habe. Ich ersticke die Welt, die ich geboren habe, zwischen meinen Schenkeln. Ich begrabe sie in meiner Scham. Nieder mit dem Glück der Unterwerfung. Es lebe der Hass, die Verachtung, der Aufstand, der Tod. Wenn sie mit Fleischermessern durch eure Schlafzimmer geht, werdet ihr die Wahrheit wissen.” Oder, um es mit den Worten von Heinz Erhardt zu sagen: Aga-Aga-Aga-Agamemnon!

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Remembering Oliver Sacks

Both as a physician and as a writer, he had two great themes: identity and adaptation. Illness, he made plain, need not rob us of our essential selves—and this was something he exemplified in his final months, as a he continued to write remarkable essays even as cancer began to sap his strength and overwhelm him. Sacks understood our frequent ability to adapt, and emphasized that the capacity for someone to adapt to a particular condition—amnesia, blindness, deafness, migraines, phantom-limb syndrome, Asperger’s syndrome, and countless other conditions—cannot be known from the outset. 

Read Jerome Groopman’s tribute to his colleague, and take a look back at some of Sacks’s iconic work for The New Yorker.

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Opera David Leventi

“Opera” records the interiors of world-famous opera houses, all photographed with 4x5” and 8x10” Arca-Swiss cameras to maximize detail. Architecturally meticulous, this body of work serves to historically document these national and cultural landmarks. 

Keep reading

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can someone tell me where all these are please?

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No. 5 is in Munich and the last one is in Bayreuth. Both are realtivly small houses and not the main venues. the others I don’t know, but I think you can look them up on the artist page http://www.davidleventi.com/portfolio/opera/3/caption when you click image info.

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The fourth wall, Klaus Frahm

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I’m sorry, is that IT from South Park in the 5th photo?!

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Oh look, there is my theatre!

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A perfect duet.

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Crushing on Jonas Kaufmann so hard right now. I’m a nerdy mess.

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Diana Damrau - Queen of the Night

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QUEEN OF THE BROCCOLI

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reblogging for the broccoli ahahaha!

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Just heard that Maria Radner is among the victims as well...Both were on the way back from guesting at Liceu Barcelona opera house.

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Oleg Bryjak, bassbaritone at Deutsche Oper am Rhein and Bayreuther Festspiele, died in the German Wings plane crash today. Such a loss...

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Valentino Spring 2014 Couture 

Fashion Fact: The notes on this dress aren’t just for show,That is an actual Song embroidered onto the dress. 

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It is Violetta’s waltz from Verdi’s opera La Traviata

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want

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Diana Damrau - Echo Klassik Winner 2014

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DJ Damrau

[soyoumusik]

#staybaroque

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yay!

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Bloody Falstaff. No matter how good the singers and the production are, I am kind of mad at Verdi for writing such a piece after everything Otello and Aida. A shallow piece with terribly difficult music and a boring plot - why, Verdi, why? You made me feel so happy and dramatic with everything else you wrote...

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tiniest conductor in the world