Gli enigmi sono tre, una è la vita

Tuuli|21|INTP A maths & operation reasearch student currently living in Helsinki who happens to be crazy about opera. General opera-fangirling with a slight emphasis on opera life in Finland.

[preciouslittlelifeforms]

@normallyparenthetical I’m seeing Mefistofele with Giannattasio, Schrott and Calleja. Not my favourite but it was the most interesting one going the time we’re there and the singers are g r e a t

[preciouslittlelifeforms]

I’m going to München and I got tickets to BayStaats aaaaahhhhhh

[parmandil]

Bryan Hymel, Elina Garanca, Carmen Giannattasio and Simon Keenlyside in Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci. Royal Opera House, 2017. (Photo: Catherine Ashmore)

[playbill]

First Look at Paris Opera’s New La Bohème—Set in Space

[bassclarry-blog]

[moremercurial]

@suffering-musician

[classicallytrainedidiot]

well I’m dead

[parmandil]

Stéphanie d'Oustrac and Amanda Majeski in La clemenza di Tito. Opera National de Paris, 2017. (Photo: Sébastien Mathé)

[operanerd]

[preciouslittlelifeforms]

Christmas is coming aka soon it's okay to blast o Helga natt sung by Jussi björling on repeat ::::)

[palimadar]

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, music director designate of the Metropolitan Opera

(photo: Dario Acosta)

[lammermoor-lace]

Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges at La Scala, with Marianne Crebassa and Armelle Khourdoian (May 2016).

(photos: Brescia Amisano)

[lesbianishstuff]

In War and Peace: War

[devilishlyoperatic]

This concert was mind-blowing when I saw it a few months ago

[preciouslittlelifeforms]

Fate apparently denies me of ever seeing christian tetzlaff live

[parmandil]

when your ex is fucking your other ex and plotting your murder and overthrow but you manage to survive and when your ex #2 does not fess up you fully pretend like you’re about to have him thrown to the beasts promptly kicking everyone else into a nervous breakdown only to actually pardon him the very last minute after ex #1 actually comes clean and you’re too shaken to your core to have them both executed so you just go ahead with the power play as planned

[parmandil]

Anna Caterina Antonacci in the title role of Cherubini’s Medea. Teatro Regio di Torino, 2008. (Photo: Ramella&Giannese)

[likeniobe]

tenor trapped in a cage and dying baritone singing five feet apart cause they’re not gay

[parmandil]

the cage is heterosexuality

[parmandil]

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

[yes-im-a-simple-man]

you’ve heard of elf on the shelf, now get ready for

[opus3no1]

THIS IS THE BEST ONE YET WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT IT