#jonas kaufmann

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Opera Streams: Early-Mid September 2025

6th: Dvořák's Rusalka from National Theatre Brno. Featuring Linda Ballová, Peter Berger, and Jan Šťáva. Free!

6th: Strauss's Salome from Kölner Philharmonie. Concert version. Featuring Jennifer Holloway, Iain Patterson, and Gerhard Siegel. Free!

7th: The Opern Air season-opening gala from Wiener Staatsoper. Featuring Jonas Kaufmann, Elīna Garanča, Sonya Yoncheva, and Benjamin Bernheim. Free (with registration)!

12th: Gounod's Faust from Opéra de Lille. Featuring Julien Dran, Jérôme Boutillier, and Vannina Santoni. Free!

13th: Verdi's Rigoletto from San Francisco Opera. Featuring Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Yongzhao Yu, Adela Zaharia, and J'Nai Bridges. Rental.

Archive note: On the 6th, Arte will add the 2023 production of Melancholia (based on von Trier's film) from Royal Swedish Opera. Free!

Not strictly opera, but you can expect some arias: Ooppera Balletti Finland will stream their Opera Teatime Dance for free on the 10th. More streams will follow on various Wednesdays throughout the season. This first stream will feature baritone Tuomas Lehtinen.

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La passeggiata a mezzanotte circa dal San Carlo a casa, il lungomare che a quell'ora, infrasettimanale, ha un silenzio e una pace unici.

In gola e nel cuore pensieri e sensazioni che le parole nemmeno intuiscono.

Respirare.

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

happy 5 years (idk if it’s the exact date but this WAS released in 2020) to this iconic mess

[vera-dauriac]

One last bit of Christmas viewing.

[itsa-me-cavaradossi]

Whichever one of you crazy, lovely humans put this nomination out there, you are freaking making my Yuletide 2025 already. ❤️

[respectablecapers]

one whores open sleigh my beloved

[automaticdreamlandkid]

Jonas Kaufmann in Tosca

[soisaidfine]

Ethel Cain: 'i love feeling bad from time to time' / Roland Barthes: 'Where there is a wound, there is a subject'

Parsifal: The wound I saw bleeding now bleeds in me

Ethel Cain: "i love feeling bad from time to time, i always just fully lean into it. when i was a kid i’d chew holes inside my cheeks while i read at night until they’d bleed and then i’d have horrible sores that would ache for days afterwards, but sometimes i’d bite the sores between my teeth and make them hurt even worse because when i let go, for a moment they wouldn’t hurt at all. i think life as a whole is kind of like that."

Roland Barthes: "Where there is a wound, there is a subject: 'The wound! The wound!' says Parsifal (Richard Wagner), thereby becoming 'himself'; and the deeper the wound, at the body's center (at the 'heart'), the more the subject becomes a subject: for the subject is intimacy ('The wound … is of a frightful intimacy'). Such is love's wound : a radical chasm (at the 'roots' of being) , which cannot be closed, and out of which the subject drains, constituting himself as a subject in this very draining." (Roland Barthes, Fragments of a Lover's Discourse, OC V, 234)

VIDEO: Ethel Cain - Famous Last Words

Ethel Cain

Parsifal (Jonas Kaufmann, The Metropolitan Opera)

Ethel Cain: my teeth - Rene Girard: "something to sink its teeth into. Perhaps this is what the story of Cain and Abel signifies"

René Girard: “We can only deceive violence to the extent that we do not deprive it of all outlet, where we provide it with something to sink