#musetta

[reine-du-sourire]

Musetta and Carmen would have so much to talk about

[iridizzium]

[opera-shitpost]

Mimì @ Rodolfo: I love resting my head on your chest and hearing your heart beat as I drift off to sleep. Musetta @ Marcello: I recorded you snoring so you can hear how fucking loud it is.

[princesssarisa]

I swear that Peter J. Hall, who designed the costumes for Franco Zeffirelli's iconic Metropolitan Opera production of La Bohéme, must have seen this Little Women illustration by Jessie Wilcox Smith. It must have reminded him of Musetta and Mimí in the opera, because the dress he designed for Musetta in the last act looks almost identical to Jo's dress in this drawing.

Meanwhile, all three of Mimí's dresses are blue, even though none of them look quite like Beth's dress.

Even though Musetta has nothing in common with Jo apart from being feisty and hot-tempered (Jo would rather die than try to be sexy or flirty), the parallel of a fiery girl who reveals her tender and nurturing side by caring for a quieter, gentler, terminally ill girl still seems to have inspired the designer. The fact that Beth is sewing in that illustration, which is what Mimí does for a living, probably helped too.

[4operalove]

Renata Scotto as Musetta in PUCCINI's *La Boheme*, singing "Quando m'en vo" (Musetta's Waltz); Metropolitan Opera House NY, 1982

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

um...HELLO???

[sigurism]

Musetta - ‘Ophelia's Song’

[simone-boccanegra]

Musetta, going for a sort of Belle Époque placard style (bonus: tiny Alcindoro freaking out)