#giulio cesare

[monotonous-minutia]

Tumblr keeps marking my gay opera posts as containing "sensitive content" so in honor of the last few days of Pride Month here's a master post (in reality a tiny sampling) of gay opera gifs, view them while you can

it's mostly divas because I'm Me but it's also the divas they've been censoring lately

[ma-pi-ma]

Nell’antica Roma pugnalavano Cesare almeno guardandolo negli occhi.

Oggi usano i messaggi vocali.

Luca Ward

[dailyspicyfigures]

Giulio Cesare ; Azur Lane ☆ FREEing

[mapetitefeedeslilas]

Quando vorresti partecipare alla tumblr culture con le ides of March-stab the dictator, ma nel profondo sei ancora grata a Giulio Cesare per essere stato facile da tradurre e un bel voto garantito in versione al liceo e allora GALLIA EST OMNIS DIVISA IN PARTES TRES, PUGNALATELO VOI, IO NON HO CUORE DI FARLO

[theharbringerofchaos]

My feed these days is only Julius Cæsar and Pombon, no in between

[a-bit-obsessively]

One of my soft spots is a high male voice and a low female voice singing together. Here's my absolute favourite, countertenor Philippe Jaroussky together with Natalie Stutzmann singing parts of "Son nata a lagrimar" from Handel's opera Giulio Cesare.

Youtube:

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Thanks to @unulf0 for sending me this production of Giulio Cesare 🤣🤣

[princesssarisa]

I was just thinking of the fact that in past centuries, puberty tended to come later than it does today, due to differences in nutrition.

I've read many times that until the 20th century, girls typically got their first period around age 16.

Just now it dawned on me: did this difference also affect how late a boy's voice usually changed?

I was just thinking of certain teenage boy characters in opera, who are "pants roles" or "trouser roles" (sung by women) despite presumably being old enough to have changed voices.

For example, the role of Sesto in Handel's Giulio Cesare, who was historically 19 when the events of the opera take place.

Or Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, who presumably has an unchanged voice in-universe since the other characters repeatedly disguise him as a girl, yet who is old enough to be sent into the army and to be suspected of sleeping with the Countess.

Or Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, who is explicitly 17, yet masquerades as a girl even more successfully than Cherubino.

As characters who either were written in the 18th century or live in the 18th century, might these boys all have unchanged voices in-universe, at later ages than they would if they lived today?