Ah si tranchi dalla vita tutto quel che non è amor

Allie / 20s / they / sappy Sapphic / INFP / UK. Once danced so enthusiastically to La Clemenza di Tito that I fractured my foot. Main: @quietlyeccentric

[miamaimania]

Lymantria sp. ◆ Erebidae, Lymantriinae — Those antennae can detect a single pheromone molecule

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

random letterboxd review got me WEEPING in the club!!!

[derring-do]

On Lise Davidsen's voice

[roseyourewearingablackdress]

[monotonous-minutia]

can my gender just be trouser role I so much feel like a girl who's a boy who's actually a nonbinary lesbian

[passionfruitfaerie]

I think I paraphrase this post weekly when I say “my gender is mezzo”

[parmandil]

if I'm cross-dressing and embroiled in homoerotic affairs and YOU're cross-dressing and embroiled in homoerotic affairs then who's driving this opera

[malinaa]

what if we all explode

[monotonous-minutia]

thought Tumblr would have fun with this one

[parmandil]

Ah perdona al primo affetto my good friend Ah perdona al primo affetto

[bluberimufim]

I love that opera sits in this limbo where it's extremely well-known but not really beyond a surface level recognition, so you get commercials for makeup or whatever to the tune of the I Hate Women So Much It's Unreal aria

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

NOT THE OFFICIAL ROYAL BALLET AND OPERA ACCOUNT POSTING THIS

[parmandil]

i think i have couvid

[parmandil]

[nem23]

[thatsbelievable]

[derring-do]

Opera Streams: Mid-Late November 2024

15th: Rameau's Platée from Garsington Opera. Featuring Samuel Boden, Robert Murray, and Henry Waddington. Free!

15th: Rossini's Il Turco in Italia from Teatro Galli Rimini. Featuring Nahuel di Pierro, Elena Galitskaya, and Francisco Brito. Free!

17th: Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco from Malmö Opera. Featuring Ania Jeruc, Bror Magnus Tødenes, and Fredrik Zetterström. Rental.

17th: Handel's Theodora from Teatro Real. Featuring Julia Bullock, Joyce DiDonato, and Iestyn Davies. Subscription.

19th: Bizet's Carmen from San Francisco Opera. Featuring Eve-Maud Hubeaux, Jonathan Tetelman, Christian Van Horn, and Louise Alder. Rental (according to their website that is, but last time they just... didn't charge me).

22nd: Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress from Den Norske Opera & Ballett. Featuring Thomas Atkins, Mari Eriksmoen, and Aleksander Nohr. Free!

30th: Verdi's La Forza del Destino from Gran Teatre del Liceu. Featuring Anna Pirozzi, Brian Jagde, Artur Rucinski, and John Relyea. Free!

Plus: all of the Met's Puccini recordings, video and audio, are FREE through the end of the month!

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[supercantaloupe]

opera stream announcement!

what: don giovanni (mozart/daponte), dir. jean-françois sivadier, aix 2017

when: saturday november 2, 2pm EDT (UST -4)

where: kosmi, link will be posted on the day of

why: a (slightly belated) celebration of the 237th anniversary of the opera's premiere on oct 29, 1787!

who: everyone is welcome! please join us for an unconventional but very beautifully filmed production of one of the best operas ever written!