♪ operanerd ♫

Opera blogging, mostly. | Patron Saint of Lipstick and Copiers | "Curse of men, lustrous goddess, sharp-tongued, gleaming-eyed" - @parmandil | "Adorable, operatic, nerdy...if those things don't immediately make you fall in love then just get out." - @mahleriana

[stealingpotatoes]

i hauve a cold

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Soprano Ying Fang sings Ach, ich fühl's (Die Zauberflöte) | Dutch National Opera

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went to see these two mythical creatures 🦄 thank u @sestoinfedele for the unforgettable experience 💕 (bij AFAS Live Amsterdam) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClCrJeMoFhX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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It is World Opera Day, and I’m in Brazil being a part of O Morcego as Ida with the most wonderful people. 🥰 Tonight is our last show of this Portuguese language adaptation of Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, celebrating the 250th anniversary of Porto Alegre, the city my mother was born in. A whirlwind of staging rehearsals led by @flavio.leite.tenor , musical rehearsals with the @ospabr under @maestro.evandro.matte , costume fittings @antoniorabadan and his team, and midnight pizza parties at the hotel. 🍕 I’ll cherish these memories. Photo credit: @larisfogaa (bij Teatro São Pedro) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkJC5r6oNX2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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🏖👙☀️ https://www.instagram.com/p/ChP64VPIThC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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⛈🌸 https://www.instagram.com/p/CdGTzShAiKF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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making haunted lemonade with grape hyacinth gathered from my local graveyard 🪦✨ happy easter! https://www.instagram.com/p/CcdTQbaAcRK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[slimegargoyle]

the knowing eye contact women make when men are talking is the purest human connection possible

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[memewhore]

[william-merritt-chase]

Wash Day - A Back Yard Reminiscence of Brooklyn, 1886, William Merritt Chase

Medium: oil,panel

https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-merritt-chase/wash-day-a-back-yard-reminiscence-of-brooklyn

[prsephonies-deactivated20200815]

im not INTERESTED anymore in seeing men’s perception of what female leisure time looks like, how we lounge around hairless and small and beautiful on our beds and couches in oversized shirts and lace underwear, unaware and unassuming and all the more beautiful for not Trying to be beautiful, i’m TIRED of it. even our most basic freedom of privacy, time alone with the self, has been butchered and ripped from us by the gaze of male photographers and artists

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[butchhamlet]

okay i know i’m Back On My Bullshit but hear me out: found footage macbeth

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so much of the plot of macbeth revolves around… the fact that we don’t get to watch the plot of macbeth. we never get to see macbeth and banquo win a battle; we never get to see macbeth kill the king; we don’t see his coronation; we don’t watch lady macbeth die. so much of macbeth is what’s told through the cracks - we just get the lead-up to and aftermath of events.

so: found footage macbeth. security videos and transcripts from dunsinane and inverness. interviews with castle guards, lady macbeth’s handmaidens, figures like ross and lennox. news articles about the deaths of duncan and macbeth… battle casualty counts… whatever lady m wrote on those papers during her sleepwalking scenes… young siward’s school records… i could go on

[viewtiful-kim-deactivated202105]

Hamlet adaptation where Hamlet is a vlogger and all his soliloquies are breakdowns he uploads to YouTube

[animatedamerican]

… I am unironically here for this

[oldfilmsflicker]

this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life

[kabesattic]

This is - legitimately - my favourite delivery of Shakespeare I have EVER seen (and I have seen some good-ass productions yo, in the Globe Theatre itself even). Like seriously, even though the words are unchanged, he’s stripped away ALL of the archaic pretense and assumed grandeur of ~presenting the bard~ that makes even the most wildly talented of actors and innovative of productions inherently inaccessible to a modern audience. Like, they’re still great, they can still communicate the message and (some) of the nuance, but they’re still always a step removed from being identifiable to any viewer’s lived experience. They’re still always reciting 15th century poetry. But this guy? This guy is like, screw iambic pentameter, to hell with being precious about the material, HOW WOULD AN ACTUAL PERSON SAY THIS SHIT?

Like this. And it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful to hear a soliloquy I loved so much already, and have it come to life in a way it never, ever, did before. I feel like I grasp his motivations, his twists and turns, no longer on an academic level but on a visceral, instinctive one. Because he’s presenting his mental and emotional journey in a way that speaks honestly, like a real person.

So yeah, this shit post? I love it. Deeply and sincerely.

[imanes]

in this house we are violently anti sparkling water