sempre per te sarò

caffeine-powered mezzo-soprano working on my B.M. in vocal performance/opera learning: German, Italian

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Isabel Leonard, from her instagram

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Isabel Leonard as Cherubino and Amanda Majeski as the Countess in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro

[operanerd]

big dick energy

[operasuggestion]

fixate on the soprano

[operanerd]

Elīna Garanča and Anna Netrebko for Deutsche Grammophon’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi, 2009

[parmandil]

Ah, si tronchi dalla vita Tutto quel che non è amor.

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Elina Garanca and Erin Morley in Der Rosenkavalier. Metropolitan Opera, 2017. (Photo: Ken Howard)

[smile-at-the-stars]

sneaking a lil kiss, are we elina? iCeiM, ROH

[silascaptor-deactivated20210107]

Honestly one of the most important things I can say I’ve learned as an artist is that if you feel like you’re really stagnating, that probably means you’re seeing problems in your work that you have never been able to see before, but you haven’t figured out how to fix them yet.

You’re not really stagnating

You’re understanding of drawing has moved beyond your current execution.

Once you have finished processing the problems you’re suddenly seeing, you’re likely to correct them and suddenly make a huge breakthrough in your drawing.

Don’t push yourself, either. Sometimes you have to remove yourself from a problem temporarily to solve it, just don’t give up drawing altogether.

TL;DR feeling like your drawing is stagnating/getting worse means your eye is improving, and your hands are likely to catch up soon.

[rhythmic-idealist]

as a musician who went through this recently, I can confirm this is very true.

you’re not bad

you’re not realizing you’re a fraud

people aren’t lying to you when they say you’re good

you’re just improving, and this is an agonizing but really important step. congratulations, because I can promise you you’re about to get ten thousand times better at whatever it is you do.

[feministism]

[wilwheaton]

And “your best” will vary from day to day, even from hour to hour. Be gentle with yourself and know that your best, not what someone else decides is your best, is enough.

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Emily D’Angelo as Annio and Ying Fang as Servilia in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito, Met Opera 2019

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10 years of CW programming has NOTHING on the amount of vicious queerbait a ~traditionally staged~ 19th century bel canto gal pals duet can deliver

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I WILL shut up about it eventually but what I love so much about Garanca’s Sesto is that she strikes the perfect balance between like, brooding hero and the lost puppy energy, which is all the more commendable since she was stuck in an ugly wig and that light pastel monstrosity of a costume

[yes-im-a-simple-man]

When you keep making mistakes on the piece but the performance is coming up soon so at this point you have to practice playing through it without stopping no matter what

[parmandil]

where’s the KNEELING, where’s the IMPASSIONATE SINGING straight into Vitellia’s LAP

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Ah, perdona al primo affetto from Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito, sung by Emily D’Angelo and Ying Fang.

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Joyce Didonato as Sesto and Elza van den Heever as Vitellia in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito, Met Opera 2019