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operetta stream announcement!
What: jacques offenbach's la périchole, paris opéra-comique 2022
where: https://kosmi.to/246t72
when: sunday july 13, 5pm edt (utc -4)
who: everyone is welcome!
extra info: performed in french with english subtitles. drunken hijinks, marriage mix-ups, and great tunes abound when a rich viceroy crosses paths with a pair of poor peruvian street performers in this goofy romantic comedy. don't mind the llamas. hot operetta summer continues!
Random youtuber's reaction to the Violin Aria
Count Monty Cristo is a Vampire-Bat of the FINEST taste! As such, he prefers the classic (aka, classical) and all matter of musical chords. They set the spirit a glow they do~ and it’s time, now, to share them with YOU!
“Danse Macabre” A classic. Such merriment. Such grace. Such a lovely use of strings to produce the feeling of an undead dance~
“Swan Lake Theme”. Be still my heart, thy name is Tchaikovsky.
“Orpheus in the Underworld”. A classic best left for a blood stop rendezvous or all matter of roadtrips to and from your mother’s coven. On repeat. Repeatedly. All day. All through the drive. Just this.
“The Rite of Spring”. A good song for meditation and after-beauty beauty sleep. Monty and his master Marcus got to see this number performed on stage once. The dancers were to DIE for!
“Laschia chio Pianga”. George Fredric Handel’s glorious ballad is one of the few actually sung-songs which can win this vampire’s heart. I mean, after, it’s a tragic love song. Vampires love those. Also, everything sounds better in Italian!
“Carol of the Bells”. This is Monty’s favorite Yuletide carol and he’ll hunt you down and bite your head off if you even DARE listen to that awful rock version. What PERVERSION! What a DISGRACE! A-POX ON YOUR SYNTHO ROCK NONSENSE!
“Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta”. Monty really likes to listen to this piece when he’s taking a bath or flying up and down his master’s halls. It helps him concentrate on things such as life, loneliness, and the horrific pit of despair and emptiness that is day to day living.
Offenbach - Finale to Act 1 of La belle Hélène
My parents, sister, and I have a fancy dinner every Valentine’s day evening. A fun tradition, we alternate between the men and women to prepare dinner. This year, my dad and I are making dinner. I made French onion soup to start, he’s going to make steak Diane for the main course, and for dessert I decided on an interesting poached pear treat I found online called Belle Hélène. Poaching pears in an orange/lemon syrup with cinnamon, cloves, star anise, and vanilla bean. So far, smells delicious. But the relevant part is that the dessert, made by the famous chef Auguste Escoffier, is named after this Offenbach opera. Since I’m not fan of opera, and always had a bias against Offenbach as being frivolous, I would have never listened to this piece. But I decided it would be fun to listen while I poach the pears. And how sweet it is; catchy choruses, heartfelt solos from the sopranos and tenors, so far a truly enjoyable work that sounds like it would be fun to watch on stage after a heavy dinner. If anything it goes to show you can’t judge something if you haven’t even tried it. Instead of sharing the entire opera, I’m sharing the energetic finale to the first act. And regardless if you have a special someone of not, I hope you all treat yo selves this Valentine’s day
Jaques Offenbach - Barcarole - Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Susan Quittmeyer as Nicklausse in Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann
(Metropolitan Opera, 1988)
Frederica von Stade as Nicklausse in Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann
(Metropolitan Opera, 1970)
