[soubrettefloriatosca]

hi there ♥️

I’m mostly a silent observer on operablr, but occasionally I enjoy curating my page

for legal reasons, my username is a little jokey joke and doesn’t *actually* reflect my voice type nor the roles I would attempt to sing :)

oh!! and my favorite operas are Tosca, Andrea Chenier, and Don Carlo in that order

[crowfiddle]

i love you fuzzy old opera albums that sound like they were recorded through three layers of shetland wool. i love you opera recordings where you can hear the footfall of the singer's blocking before they sing and it's like the sheer power of their throat is straining up and away through the muffled file quality. i love you opera recordings where you can hear the soft tidal roar of an entire audience shouting "brava" after a stirring aria. the vastness of the score and the voice that sings it and the venue, all tinny and soft -- and now i'm hearing it! me in my little room, and in my head the spacious stage with its paper snowdrifts. its audience with starched collars and mothball pantsuits. with me! while i knit legwarmers

[rjdent]

Henry James's writing desk, Lamb House, Rye, England.

[frostedmagnolias]

Pendant with a Lion

17th century

Gold, amber, enamel, and pearls

Europe

Art Institute of Chicago

[leporellian]

BARON SCARPIA HAS BEEN DEAD FOR 222 SLUTTY, SLUTTY YEARS

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

225 SLUTTY, SLUTTY YEARS

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

226 SLUTTY, SLUTTY YEARS

[borgialucrezia]

THE BORGIAS (2011 — 2013) + Art

"It’s Lucrezia Borgia! She is so complicated and there are so many interpretations of it that you can go with. I think she had quite a strong moral center and she was quite religious, but she is ambitious, so it’s the tension between her staying true to her morals and her ambitions." — HOLLIDAY GRAINGER

Paintings:

Lucrezia Borgia, Pinturicchio, c. 1492 - 1494 The Lute Player, Orazio Gentileschi, c. 1612 - 1620 Self Portrait in a Straw Hat, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, c. 1782 The Penitent Magdalene, Guido Reni, c. 1635 The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli, c. 1484 - 1485 Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Caravaggio, c. 1598 Portrait of a Woman, Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1525 - 1527 Profile of a Young Woman, Sandro Botticelli, c. 1475 - 1480

[basingstokemercury]

tosca is devastating right away and hits hard and grabs you

don carlo is upsetting first watch and then you sit and think and analyse and it just gets worse and worse each time

[reine-du-sourire]

We don't need chatgpt for advice. We need Figaro

[oldpaintings]

Missing Naples, 1895 by Anna Clémence Bertha Abraham Worms (French-born Brazilian, 1868–1937)

[trigona-necrophaga]

Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlo, Act IV Scene 3, as performed at La Scala, 1884, première of the Milan version.

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

can we have the baseball rigoletto link pls pls PLS

alright enough people have asked (and i’ve been dm’ing them but obvs can’t do that here) so:

[000l]

[shrewreadings]

like to charge, reblog to cast.

[basingstokemercury]

watching a verdi opera like "awww sweet romance when does the sociopolitical commentary turn up - OH YEAH THERE IT IS i should never have doubted"

[basingstokemercury]

"racism and cycles of vengeance are bad" (X2)

"please don't start holy wars because the inquisition tells you to"

"war and prejudice are awful and ruin the lives of people who just want to be happy together"

"men with lots of money and power can get away with treating women horribly, don't be ableist, also if you keep a woman naive to protect her you'll just deprive her of the ability to spot danger"

"putting your daughter marrying rich before a terminally ill woman's (and your son's) happiness is still bad if said woman used to be a courtesan"

but opera is all just melodramatic people falling in love and dying right 🙃

[derring-do]

Asmik Grigorian & Iurii Samoilov in Eugene Onegin (Metropolitan Opera, 2026)

[artandthebible]

The Seven Archangels

Artist: Massimo Stanzione (Italian, 1585-1656)

Date: 1620

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The National Heritage of Spain, Madrid, Spain

[rustingbridges]

I like to fuck around and waste time for at least ~6-10 hours per day, and let me tell you, that really puts some pressure on your schedule. you have no idea how busy I am

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[nekoning]

the use of AI lately has made me feel so hopeless, i translated pages of an unfinished fanzine of mine so i can remember why i love art...i hope it can resonate with anyone feeling the same way