Jul 18, 2023
I identify with Halévy because Paddy would also take one look at me and go "WTF is that?"
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I identify with Halévy because Paddy would also take one look at me and go "WTF is that?"
why the fuck are some of the tempi (particularly in chorus selections) of the de almeida la juive so slow???????
if I had a nickel for every time an 1830s French grand opéra with a libretto partially by Eugène Scribe and a world premiere cast including (but not limited to) Adolphe Nourrit, Marie-Cornélie Falcon, Julie Dorus-Gras, and Nicolas Levasseur ended with a guy inadvertently killing his own daughter due to him engaging in religious persecution of non-Catholics, I'd have two nickels.
which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Rachel, quand du Seigneur... from Halévy’s opera La Juive, sung by Neil Shicoff. Really brilliant acting here - and not bad vocally, either.
La juive (Geneva, 2022): Reactions, Part I
ENFIN!!!!!!!!!!
MARC MINKOWSKI MY BELOVED
okay this looks so cool
omg no don’t attack them
(update: surprisingly and thankfully, they did not)
hey you’re supposed to be in church right now so maybe be in there and mind your own fucking business
“the power of christ compels you! THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!!!”
“…i’m jewish, not a vampire”
JOHN OSBORN MY BELOVED
léopold you shady little motherfucker
“the hussites have been defeated—”
“EYYYYYYYYYUP THAT WAS ME BITCHES”
i love when Abstract Organs Are There
time for a Public Service Announcement TM
free alcohol: the fastest way to excite a crowd
omg no don’t attack his shop
OMG NO DON’T ATTACK MY BABY
TELL ‘EM OFF ÉLÉAZAR
hmm. interesting!
rip to his family (unless…)
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW 🥺
can you be friends after such shit has passed between you??? can you even not hate each other???
when an aria turns into a gorg ensemble *chef’s kiss because halévy was a master*
they don’t know it but…
TAKE RACHEL’S NAME OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MOUTH
“oh hi orchestra thanks for helping with my seduction serenading”
spicy times
admittedly this is some very spicy music
léopold more like “i wanna get laid-o-pold”
she’s so adorable i can’t
“uh…yeah. just like you. totally jewish.”
love the church bell addition
love the look
interesting choice!
day drinking a little too hard
this is literally the SECOND time in the past THIRTY minutes you have threatened to MURDER them
and i oop
okay her voice kinda reminds me of Anna Caterina Antonacci’s 😍
halévy went OFF with this absolute banger
EXCELLENT use of film
yeah léopold you have a WIFE and KIDS what is WRONG with you
them against the world 💔
THE LOOK ON HIS FACE LMAOOOOOOOOO
(also: bling)
and the party and the antisemitism go on!
sometimes just EXISTING is an act of indescribable bravery
actual picture of me trying to not burn myself with matches (and usually failing)
léopold: imma yeet the matzoh
rachel: dude what the fuck
GOD TIER SINGING AND ACTING FROM JOHN OSBORN
AWWWWWWWWWW (again)
uh oh…
words cannot describe how much i hate this wig
also: TIME FOR MY FAVORITE TRIO IN THIS OPERA
okay tbh the outfit kinda pops off tho
like the detailing on the bottom of the coat!!!
NOT LÉOPOLD HIDING FROM EUDOXIE IN PLAIN SIGHT PLEAAAAAAASE
you done fucked up boy
the assignment was apparently to do stereotypical diva poses and by GOLLY she understood the assignment
a) the dress pops off
b) WHAT IS THE DANCE THE LADIES ARE DOING IN THE BACKGROUND LMAOOOOOOOOO
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW (again, yes. they are just SO PRECIOUS pls let them be happy)
this is EXQUISITE
still like the Konwitschny staging of this trio better because a) no weird cuts and b) ALL the chaotic energy but this, like the rest of the show so far, is very good!
to be continued later :)
today i learned that boiling people alive was an actual legal punishment and not just something used for a horrifying ending in fromental halévy’s 1835 opera la juive
production of La juive where everything is the same except in lieu of Rachel’s normal denunciation of Léopold, she simply yells
“Il est un FUCKBOY! F-U-C-K-B-O-Y!!!”
things the French grand opéra nerd in me desperately wants: a filmed, fully-staged production of this bizarre piece called La tentation by Fromental Halévy
this will probably never happen, largely because this is the cast:
so...yeah