#opera posting

[kusnechik]

Guess who finally went to see the magic flute the other dayyy

[mukenaizen]

137 days until greatness

[damejoansutherland]

i love seeing the moment when people who are clearly not already opera fans get sucked in because aside from it being a win for the art form it's always so entertaining. anyway shoutout to the group of twenty-somethings at mccaw hall last night whom i overheard talking about how floria tosca is "really going through it". truer words were never spoken.

[queer-reader-07]

not to be a complete hater but every time i see someone pull up to opera in blue jeans i do wonder why

[jojotier]

The thing about Tosca that gets me is that the guy playing Carvaradossi Knows hes likely still going to die by firing squad. Like he knows it's unlikely they'll actually let him go, especially when Scarpia took the time to torture him and force Tosca to listen to his screams of pain to give up Angelotti. He knows.

But Tosca has just gotten done killing Scarpia. Shes still shaken by the blood she had on her hands. She slit his throat and told Scarpia to suffer, choke on his blood and die as Scarpia writhed on the floor begging for help- Tosca, the gentle lady raised by nuns, the opera singer, the teacher of children. So she truly believes theyve won and that it'll be blanks fired, a false execution with a carriage waiting for them.

So Carvaradossi pretends he believes it. He uses the precious last moments he has with the love of his life to hold and kiss her and tell her how madly and deeply in love with her he is, and puts on bravado when its time. Because the last sight he sees before the hood is put over his head is going to be Tosca's secret smile from the shadows.

(And the machine precision of the soldiers marching agonizingly slow on the stage. The stillness of the music. The deliberate synchronized raising and loading of each rifle. The fact that after the shots ring out and he falls there is no music- only her soprano voice singing, "Just a moment... Theyre leaving... Theyve gone..." Her smiling and rushing to the fallen body and urging "get up, get up! Theyre gone! Were free!" before she finally sees the blood.)

[sonia-marmeladova]

Ah, non m´avvanza più socorso, più speranza ne dal mondo, ne dal cel.

Ah, it doesn´t give me any help, any hope neither this world, neither heaven.

[mukenaizen]

2026-2027 SEASON AT THE MET IS UP AND BOY IS IT A PACKED SEASON

[mukenaizen]

i really can't stand the sentiment that opera is unconditionally boring because the world of opera is so vast i truly believe that there is an opera out there for everyone that they would enjoy. and while i totally understand that it's just generally not an enjoyable art form for some, it is farrrrr from a boring one