Mezzos. Pants. What Could Go Wrong?

Relatable content for all you crazy mezzos out there. Also periodic analysis of gender roles and lines in opera. (You know, if you’re into that kind of thing. 😉)

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Elīna Garanča and Renée Fleming in Der Rosenkavalier (Metropolitan Opera, 2017)

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Reasons to love Joyce DiDonato’s Isolier: an illustrated guide

Ok, brace yourselves. It’s *heavily* illustrated.

that freaking eyebrow

body language

long red leather jacket

gorgeous voice and phrasing that will make you cry

the exasperation with Ory’s lecherousness - there are a couple of impressive “are you kidding me?” looks during the famed trio - and the glee with which he got showed the door

the “oui, lorsqu’on est deux” phrase where Isolier pretends to sing as Adele is too cute for words

body language

chemistry with Diana Damrau as Adele

kiss. ish.

the entire cluster of bed gymnastics they’re all involved in, all while singing beautifully

especially the physical “ouch” after Ory slaps what would be a painful part in someone anatomically male

the three-way ass-grabbing isn’t bad either

nor is that leg

and that laughter right after the last tone is definitely her

thumbing noses at Ory, who just doesn’t realize when to let it go

did I remember to mention body language, by the way?

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What the signs REALLY want

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Aries: cheaper opera tickets


Taurus: cheaper opera tickets


Gemini: cheaper opera tickets


Cancer: cheaper opera tickets


Leo: cheaper opera tickets


Virgo: cheaper opera tickets


Libra: cheaper opera tickets


Scorpio: cheaper opera tickets


Sagittarius: cheaper opera tickets


Capricorn: cheaper opera tickets


Aquarius: cheaper opera tickets


Pisces: cheaper opera tickets

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Mezzo life be like

[operamusings]

Thing I want: a mezzo to release an album titled “fuckboy” and it’s just arias of annoying teenage boys who think they are in love and need to get laid.

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Pants roles’ solutions to their problems:

dress up as a girl

OR

try to get themselves killed

[parmandil]

It’s time to drool over the costumes and just sob over this production again.

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Chi sei tu… Stolto! a un sol mio grido… Ella è morta, o sciagurato from Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi, sung by Vesselina Kasarova and Gregory Kunde.

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Romeo & Giulietta

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“Amico mio fedel” sure boys

[whowearsthetrousers]

Kate Lindsey as Annio and Elina Garanca as Sesto, La Clemenza di Tito

[glitterboots]

Clemenza di Tito 

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Roberta Mameli and Giuseppina Bridelli in La clemenza di Tito. Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, 2019. (Photo: Michele Monasta)

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Wallis Giunta and Meghan Lindsay in Idomeneo. Opera Atelier, 2019. (Photo: Bruce Zinger)

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Paula Murrihy and Nicole Chevalier in Idomeneo. Salzburger Festspiele, 2019. (Photo: Ruth Waltz)

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Marianne Crebassa as Sesto in La Clemenza di Tito. Golda Schultz in the role of Vitellia (August 2017, Salzburger Festspiele) (photo: Ruth Walz)

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Ruggiero Raimondi sings Figaro’s “Non piu andrai” from Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro

Seen: Frederica von Stade as Cherubino and Kathleen Battle as Susanna

Metropolitan Opera 1985

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big dick energy

[mezzosexuality]

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