#ruggiero

[7pleiades7]

The Deliverance: Ruggiero and Angelica (also known as Roger Rescuing Angelica) (1876) by Joseph Paul Blanc (French, 1846 – 1904), oil on canvas, 225 x 334 cm, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille

[illustratus]

The Rider of the Hippogriff battles Gradasso and Ruggiero as Pinabello watches (Orlando Furioso) by Gustave Doré

[unulf0]

big fan of how ruggiero, despite being an alto, has the same mental capacity as your average operatic tenor.

[ririchuuki]

An array of Orlando Furioso Servant designs...!

Bradamante & Ruggiero are quite old already (4 years!), but Atlantes and Marfisa are new additions to my (not very small) fanservant collection~ Well, at least the family is sort of together now (on Ruggiero's side, at the very least) ^_^♪

Old drawings and extra under cut~

base design, 2. first design idea/concept, 3. fullbody attempt on final design, 4 & 5. sketches of her 'casual look' (her master was a young'un who liked rap Very Much and only had an old tupac hoodie to lend her...)

But before I forget, her redesign's lance look! I wanted to keep the golds as main accent!

And this was the only drawing Ruggiero had for all these years. Poor laddie...

[girlruggiero]

Important: Bradamante has two hands

[larmegliamori]

If I had an euro for everytime I've shipped a boy-doomed-by-the-narrative/girlboss couple in which the man is also not a native to the main setting of the story, the woman is a very skilled fighter, one of them dies before the other AND they're part of a subplot that gets snubbed/isn't particularly well-liked... I'd have two euros. Yada yada.

[operasrsly]

Alcina is one of my absolute favourite operas, and this little aria is very dear to my heart. The role of Oronte was created for John Beard, barely 18 at the time, who started out as a boy soprano and had a long, extremely successful career ahead of him. Händel was the opposite of a hire-and-fire person - he loved his singers apparently and was very loyal to them. Personally, I think you can hear who the aria was written for if you pay attention. The tenor here vocally leaves many wishes open, but it doesn't matter - I have rewatched the aria so many times, and I always do it for Alice Coote who plays Ruggiero. Who can look at anything else if she is in the room? *edit: Tumblr "refuses to connect" to the unlisted vid, so here is the link.

Oronte is veryone's straight friend after 7 beers

This is "Oronte is veryone's straight friend after 7 beers" by Lankin on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love the

[call-me-noa]

Ruggiero and Bradamante from the JP event