#opera stimboard

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Stimboard for Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, an entire cycle of four massive operas... none of which I have ever seen or listened to, but I have a fairly good understanding of them within the opera canon in general. Nonetheless, I hope the results are satisfactory for all the fans out here.

This is my entry for this year's @operablr-secret-santa event, and it's a present for @beckmessering. I know we haven't spoken in a long time, but I hope you like this, and merry Christmas to you and to everyone in the operablr spaces!!

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Questo è il bacio di Tosca! 💋 (This is Tosca's kiss!)

Stimboard for the titular character of Puccini's opera Tosca. For my dear friend @itsa-me-cavaradossi!

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Corpo di moribonda è il corpo mio! Prendilo dunque! Io son già morta cosa! 🥀 My body is a dead woman's body! Take it, then! I am already dead matter!

Stimboard for Maddalena di Coigny, from the opera Andrea Chénier. I have only watched this opera once, but she is such a stimboard-able character that I couldn't resist.

@smile-at-the-stars I think you might like it.

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Stimboard for the opera L'elisir d'amore but lesbian, the idea of which was mostly championed by @girlscarpia and @leporellian.

Happy Pride Month to all my lesbian and wlw followers and fwendos!

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Stimboard for Minnie, the badass titular soprano from La fanciulla del West (aka Puccini’s cow-boy opera 🤠), requested by my darling friend @smile-at-the-stars.

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Opera stimboard, this time not for a whole opera or a specific character, but for the aria (solo song) “Che gelida manina” (“What a cold little hand”), sung by the character Rodolfo in the opera La bohème (listen to it here).

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Another opera stimboard from Yours Truly! This time, not for one specific character, but for one whole opera: La rondine by Puccini, solely because it’s been a brainworm of mine yet again lately, I love it so much.

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This is mostly dedicated to @smile-at-the-stars.

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Stimboard for the titular character from Tchaikovsky’s opera Iolanta! I specifically chose to make a (admittedly not superb) stimboard for her because there are a few themes in this opera that strangely hit pretty close to home for me as someone who was diagnosed with autism as a toddler but never told about my condition until I was a teenager. And also because I’m in love with this opera.

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