mr magorium's opera emporium

ursula/red, 22, any pronouns, autistic lezzie. operatic dramaturg

[leporellian]

self portraiture

[likeniobe]

backdrops by david hockney for the magic flute, 1978

[digitalhippocampus]

david hockney with his dachshunds stanley and boodgie

[leporellian]

on opera as the dragon

(the magic flute, royal opera house 2011/ wikipedia/livescience.com/wayne koestenbaum, the queen's throat: opera, homosexuality, and the mystery of desire/ocean vuong, a letter to my mother that she will never read/ @/foxtel on twitter/quora/jeffrey cohen's monster theses/samantha riches, encountering the monstrous: saints and dragons in medieval thought/maria callas/maurice sendak/e.a. bucchianeri, brushstrokes of a gadfly/jeffrey cohen's monster theses/lyric opera marquee/maggie nelson/j.r.r.tolkien/margaret atwood, lady oracle/ogden nash, 'dragons are too seldom'/fafner puppet backstage at the lyric opera of chicago's siegfried, 2019/slavoj žižek and mladen dolar, opera's second death/jeffrey cohen's monster theses/photograph from the stage at the opera comique in paris/jeffrey cohen's monster theses)

[leporellian]

GUYS YOU MUST REMEMBER: and i don't mean to be satirical but where there's a monster- there's a miracle; and after a thorough study of current affairs, i have concluded with regret that the world can profitably use all the miracles it can get,

[gaybichon]

CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL (full performance from the 2026 tony awards)

[elucubrare]

watching youtube in the 18th century: goddddddd could you skip through the 20 minutes of thanks for your ~most gracious patron her grace the duchess of D--shire, a new maecenas & the loveliest of ladies~ and get to your handel tier listing

[hard-times-paramore]

Okay, real talk now. People love to tag male characters in posts about women, but this post is gonna take this seriously. Is there actually a canonically male character you believe is a trans woman? Or at least has made into a trans woman for a fanart or a fanfic? Excluding the ones canonically implied.

Sound off in the tags! Link to the fanart or fic if available. Do it. Give me the girls. Make more women.

[furthian]

[deathandmysticism]

Zoroaster Clavis Artis, 1738

[leporellian]

dog woke me up by yelling and i was SO PISSEDDDD but then bc of this got to see the knicks come back from a 29 point deficit. there is beauty all around us

[skeletal-fish]

guys i think this shakespeare dude might be kinda good at writing. do people know about this

[mozartpilled]

next you're gonna tell me the mozart guy wrote decent music

[dreamiekira]

When the sky danced for us

[leporellian]

need to find more pretentious theatre people on here who can also withstand my specific brand of dumbass shithousery

[beastliness]

your entire worth as a person DOES ride on doing every single task no matter how trivial to the utmost possible degree of skill

[girljeremystrong]

[leporellian]

if escamillo from carmen existed in real life im sorry he would absolutely be one of those annoying guys rolling around everywhere in a fuckass sports car with the windows rolled down and bass boosted gasolina playing from the speakers it’s like this even when he’s just going to meijer (midwestern superstore chain) that’s just how he always travels. Also he doesn’t wear a t shirt or long pants between like march and october HOWEVER… if you have my beautiful mind you can see the world where she’s a fuckass stud lesbian, and therefore all of this becomes ok

[leporellian]

Carmen of course is in the shotgun seat of the car with a takis bag convincing escamillo to play megan thee stallion as well and flipping the bird out the window whenever she feels like it. Made for each other <3