When in Doubt, Blame the Accompanist

Operatic and over dramatic.

[vocalmajorworld]

The End of Don Giovanni

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Orchestre National de France, conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

“Le Boeuf sur le toit” by Darius Milhaud.

[whatshouldwecallpiccolo]

Ending with a trill

[somedevil]

Rafal Olbinski, La Traviata opera poster

[parmandil]

Cute Wagnerian names to call your beloved (Das Rheingold edition)

Garstiger

lüsterner Kauz

du haariger, höckriger Geck

schwarzes, schwieriges Schwefelgezwerg

kalter, grätiger Fisch

mein Balg

trugvoller Schelm

tückischer Zwerg

fauler Schuft

schäbiger Schuft

schändlicher Schächer

schamloser Wicht

[ancient-serpent]

Giulietta Simionato singing “Stride la vampa” from Verdi’s Il Trovatore, London, 1964

[blametheaccompanist]

Marilyn Horne. "Non, vous n'avez jamais je gage" from Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots.

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Susanna Phillips and Isabel Leonard. "Ah, guarda sorella" from Mozart's Cosi fan tutte.

[soyoumusik]

Accurate. 

Found on Facebook. 

[blametheaccompanist]

Anna Moffo.

“When I have sung my songs” by Ernest Charles.

[woodwindstockphotos]

when someone worse than you gets a solo you wanted

[instrumentastrology]

this is the most accurate stock photo of flute players I’ve ever seen right down to the attempted murder

[drizzlyautumn]

Opera singers capsize during open-air Magic Flute

The Magic Flute unexpectedly produces three Rheinmaidens as boat capsizes in Austria

lolol

[ancient-serpent]

Markgräfliches Opernhaus Bayreuth, Germany © Rainer Viertlböck / Bayerische Schlösserverwaltung

[classicalconditioningblog]

6 great classical music TED Talks:

Evelyn Glennie: “How to truly listen”

Benjamin Zander: “The transformative power of classical music”

Michael Tilson Thomas: “Music and emotion through time”

Robert Gupta: “Music is medicine, music is sanity”

Itay Talgam: “Lead like the great conductors”

Charles Hazlewood: “Trusting the ensemble”

[yohannes-brahmz-blog]

“As for my voice, it cannot be categorized—and I like it that way…. I like so many different kinds of music that I’ve never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.”

Jessye Norman (via yohannes-brahmz)

[jeeeunjang]

The Instrumentalist, 2014

[gottabeafluteplayer]

Realizing how far away from tempo you are

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ME