#berlin opera

[vera-dauriac]

FYI for the Barbara Frittoli corner of operablr.

I'm watching the Berlin Cosi from last year. Her Despina is the only real standout vocally, and the production is...meh at best. But for anyone who might harbor a crush on this particular soprano, her costume allows amble flashes of thigh. In case that sort of thing interests anyone around here.

[imagine-loki]

Berlin love

English is not my mother tongue

Imagine that in Avengers1 when Loki walk down the stairs in Berlin Opera he saw you all dressed up still waiting sadly for your date that never came. Seeing you just wake him up from the mind stone possession he decides to stop his plan and stay with you.

You spend the most wonderful night of your life and when he walks you home all the Avengers are waiting outside your house and you just stay in shock as they arrest him.

[vera-dauriac]

Watching last year's Francesca da Rimini from Berlin. The staging makes zero sense and seems to have been invented by someone who has never seen the libretto, but the singing is extraordinary, the chemistry between Francesca and Paolo is spectacular, and Jonathan Tetelman is vocally and physically 🔥.

[tofranceandback-blog]

[adelphe]

Opera Annual No. 3, edited by Harold Rosenthal, 1956

[scenicdesign]

"West Side Story"

Esther Bialas