Opera for the Layman

Opera for the Layman: One girl who loves opera and her quest to make it accessible to everyone! We're under construction!

[skybson]

7x15 - Badda-Bing Badda-Bang

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[parmandil]

Lise Davidsen in Mariusz Treliński's production of La forza del destino. Metropolitan Opera, 2024. (Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera)

[automaticdreamlandkid]

Jonas Kaufmann in Tosca

[operaforthelayman]

Hi~~~~~

ANYONE STILL HERE?

Just was at opening night after 19 months of HIATUS.

I'm feeling FIRE in my BONES.

Not the opera, (it was a'ight) -- TALKING ABOUT VIGOR!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, I'm gonna clean this shit up and go back to TALKING SHIT about OPERA BABYYYY. Whose around?

[incorrectoperaquotes]

[cloud-etudes]

Visit Original Link

[thewholeguacamole]

It sounds like the music that foreshadows a boss fight.

[thecollectibles]

Rigoletto by Geunjoo Baik

[chanelbagsandcigarettedrags]

Maria Callas in ‘La Traviata’

[devilishlyoperatic]

Anthony Roth Costanzo, star of the Met’s upcoming production of Akhnaten, liked a comment of mine on Facebook showing the setup of the tech elements of the opera from the Met’s public page and I’m loving it

This one specifically

[parmandil]

love every single word of this

[mungo-genny]

Oh good lord 😂 good for him

[thecollectibles]

Rigoletto by Geunjoo Baik

[widevibratobitch]

Don Giovanni: Looking back… I have no regrets.

Every single character in the opera: You should.

[jamesnord]

The Lobbyer Chandeliers at the Metropolitan Opera. 

[parmandil]

Ailyn Pérez in Le nozze di Figaro. Metropolitan Opera, 2018. (Photo: Ken Howard)

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[operaforthelayman]

mydaywithd‌:

Julie D’Aubigny was a 17th-century bisexual French opera singer and fencing master who killed or wounded at least ten men in life-or-death duels, performed nightly shows on the biggest and most highly-respected opera stage in the world, and once took the Holy Orders just so that she could sneak into a convent and shag a nun.

(via Feminism)