#operablr

[derring-do]

Absolute scenes in Pesaro

[is-this-taken-too-questionmark]

"can opera still be enjoyed in the modern age" i'll be real with you for a second, i'm much more amazed that opera has been enjoyed for centuries BEFORE the modern age when there weren't any subtitles for it. thank god for opera and thank god for subtitling technology.

[trigona-necrophaga]

Obsessed with what my sister put on the calendar

[isaddeos]

i'm sure someone has done this already but i have a theory and would like to prove or disprove it

dear operablr (and other ppl who have an opinion i guess): best voice type?

soprano

mezzo

contralto (mezzo flavored)

contralto (contralto flavored)

countertenor (what are you, gay?)

tenor

baritone

bass

buffo🤡

Voting ended onMay 26

put your reasoning and/or a more specific category (composer, fach, etc.) in the tags if u want :>

[lesbworth]

how it feels to blorbify an opera buffa servant except we are literally objectively correct

[storyweavingspider]

Hey since we talkin Opera bc of some cracker, take a minute to check out Babatunde’s Hip-Hopera it’s a bop and he’s so goddamn good

[siriuslyobsessedwithfiction]

It's been really funny watching people realise that just because a guy looks like a Tim Burton character and speaks French, it doesn't mean he's actually classy, articulate and enlightened. I'm talking about Timothée Chalamet saying opera and ballet is dead and beneath him. His 'poetic gentleman' routine has obviously been a strategy he was told to play along with when he needed the support of the female audience and romance girlies for his career.

That video of weird insistent hand-kissing of every female co-star when the said women were clearly not playing into it that went viral and made girlies on the internet swoon? Cringe. Performative. Unnecessary. He started getting bigger roles and rebranded instantly. Started dating Kylie Jenner. Started dressing in hoodies and shaved his romantic curls. The thing is, from a superficial standpoint, he's not even conventionally attractive enough to get away with it. He's not Brad Pitt. He's not good-looking enough to get away with being "a hot douche" who gets a pass. He's starting to look and dress like Adam Sandler.

And now he's out here saying he doesn't want to do ballet or opera because it's dead, nobody cares about it anymore, it's not where the money is, etc. And the worst thing is, I saw his speech pattern analysis by a voice actor, and it confirmed that he was initially trying to seem cool by saying it, then realised it was a hot take when he didn't get the reaction he hoped. But instead of apologising, he doubled down and made more ill-timed jokes, even going as far as to say that even if some people get upset over it, it's not going to affect his money income, bragging how he has too many fans to worry.

You don't need to be into opera and ballet to realise how much talent and training they require. He does one mediocre musical and he believes he'd be begged to star in opera and ballet? It's not an acting role you get by sucking someone off. How stupid is this guy?

Still think he's Lana Del Rey coded and is a man written by a woman?

P. S. I'm not saying the guy actually needs to be super classy and quote poetry all the time. But he's clearly not who we thought and we should stop romanticizing celebrities based on seeing them perform bare minimum like help a woman with her dress. I'm not saying it's not okay to like them. I kinda like Tom Holland, for example. Seemingly normal, down-to-earth guy, slight golden retriever vibes. Didn't play too much into Hollywood and aesthetics. Worked hard on his movies, locked down and married Zendaya. AND he actually used to do ballet! You don't see him insulting it, because he actually knows how hard it is. But the guy who knows nothing about it and nobody would want him in it anyway is acting like he's above it.

Edit: I just read that Chalamet's mother, sister and he himself used to ballet as well but he just didn't have talent for it? Not sure if it's accurate but if it is it just makes it worse.

[lazuilis]

happy new yuri from me and my toxic obsessive opera lesbians