sir john fagstaff

just a lesbian lurking on this app for yuri and opera reccomendations also read nurse love syndrome. zionists get off of my page and kys

[mikromierzaustenityczny]

Hot take: Rigoletto is a very good disability representation. Otherwise he's not a groundbreaking character-overbearing dad causing tragedy, but he's disability arc is sooo good.

First-he recognizes how outside of actual disability, it's the treatment he get's that the problem

Second-he recognizes HOWEVER ableism is the reason he is in a social position he is, he's still very much responsible for his action

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

the (first) interrupted duel/murder attempt in act ii of verdi’s stiffelio (1850), colorized circa 2017

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[ravvivande]

Puccini died when he realized he wrote an opera that has no possible good ending

[archangelofbaal]

the good ending would be Turandot chopping Calaf's head off

[flaggermusen]

Calaf dies and Turandot continues her reign of terror but no suitors try to win her over anymore

[fagstaff1893]

She should've killed him and lezzed out with liu or some other women

[flaggermusen]

Turandot x Liu very toxic yuri

[fagstaff1893]

Ponchielli's la gioconda would be better if gioconda and laura had toxic hatesex and that bum enzo died

[supercantaloupe]

okay

[fagstaff1893]

I desperately need more people to watch this production cause it has the gayest renato ever

[basingstokemercury]

Most tragic opera death (but Gilda is not an option this time sorry)?

Liu (Turandot)

Mario (Tosca)

Rodrigo (Don Carlo)

Mimi (La Boheme)

Violetta (La Traviata)

Aida

Leonora (La Forza Del Destino)

Lucia Di Lammermoor

Norma

Andrea Chenier

Manrico (Il Trovatore)

Carmen

Voting ended onMay 18

[fagstaff1893]

Voted for lucia, even tho i don't care as much about her as i do for the other characters in this poll, her mad scene arias always get me

[flaggermusen]

I do not like the ending of Turandot. Sometimes women should just be evil

[basingstokemercury]

verdi knew what he was doing when he invented mezzos

[gabiborosso]

idk if it's a real photo or not he is still so cute🥹

[trigona-necrophaga]

Listening to opera is great for anyone that likes spontaneously starting to cry while going about daily activities

[fagstaff1893]

I genuinly cannot listen to act 4 otello or the lucia mad scene when i'm outside while wearing headphones because i get mega emotional just remembering them

[fagstaff1893]

This DIVA

[princesssarisa]

I was just thinking of the fact that certain opera characters' birth names are never revealed, because they're only known by a stage name or professional name.

For example, Rigoletto. The libretto emphasizes that Gilda doesn't know her father's name, because he doesn't want her to know that he's Rigoletto, the court jester. But we the audience don't know his real name either, because "Rigoletto" is a professional nickname. It's derived from the French rigolet, "to laugh" or "to giggle." We have no idea what his birth name was.

Or Madame Butterfly, a.k.a. Cio-Cio-San. I think a common misconception is that "Cio-Cio-San" is her birth name, while "Madame Butterfly" is her geisha name. Not so. "Cio-Cio-San," or rather, "Chōchō-san," means "Madame Butterfly" or "Miss Butterfly" in Japanese. They're the same name – her geisha name. We never learn what she was called at birth.

In a subtle way, this adds to the tragedy of these characters. They're both marginalized figures who have no choice but to entertain (in very different way, of course) in order to survive, and cater to people who see them as less than human. Both of their professions force them to go by a name that reflects the role they play: his of comedy, hers of delicate beauty. And not even we, the audience, learn the real names they were given at birth.

@leporellian

[splitflute]

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Моцарт и Сальери ("Mozart and Salieri"), dir. Vladimir Gorikker (1962)

[fagstaff1893]

I lowkey have an addiction to terribly translated russian film versions of verdi operas, they always cut out half of the best duets like si per ciel from otello or si vendetta from riggoletto

[gabiborosso]

LOOK HOW ADORABLE HE IS IN THIS

MY BABY BOY🥹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

[fagstaff1893]

Getting cuteness aggression over this poster