Mar 21, 2024
Top 5 Furlanetto
HAHAHA YES
1. Ella giammai m'amo (specifically that 1968 Salzburg recording)
2. Restate (any recording tbh acting is more important there anyway)
3. Madamina
4. Il lacerato spirito
5. O tu Palermo
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Top 5 Furlanetto
HAHAHA YES
1. Ella giammai m'amo (specifically that 1968 Salzburg recording)
2. Restate (any recording tbh acting is more important there anyway)
3. Madamina
4. Il lacerato spirito
5. O tu Palermo
Not sure if you're still bored at work, but here's an ask. :)
What book on your TBR are you most excited to get to? Also, if you're a person who listens to music when you read, what will you listen to when you read it?
Thank you for your asking, I have a whole 15 minutes left before I can get outta here :)
My TBR is in a tragic state, there's so much I have to read for class and I have been waiting forever to get to these nonfiction beasts (screenshotted with the Storygraph's shiny new dark mode):
German 20th century history :) I'm a bit obsessed with the topic of rising fascism, hoping if I understand better how it happened in Germany, I'd better understand what's going on in a certain other country who is taking a turn down a terribly familiar path....
To your second question: I've tried but never succeeded in listening to music while reading, I find it too distracting! Sometimes if I'm in a noisy environment I have to put something on to block out the noise but it doesn't help much with concentration.
If your life were an opera:
What composer would you want to write it?
Who would sing you?
Does the tenor die at the end?
i got so excited seeing this question!!
1. wagner or puccini, i think. both wrote operas in 'small' settings (tristan, where nobody *does* very much, actually, or il tabarro, which is just. an evening on a barge on the seine) and sometimes my life feels small and just my head is vast, and they wrote in 'big' settings (a world full of gods and creatures! rome in 1800!), and sometimes life feels adventurous and fastfastfast like that. also, i'd like a languishing, beautiful orchestration to my inner train of thought, please.
2. lise davidsen. i don't have an absolute favourite soprano, but so far, she sings characters that feel very deeply but nonetheless harbour a lot of grit and their own agenda, and i do kinda identify with that.
3. i'm not sure. i hope i wouldn't attract a very dumb tenor and i luckily haven't had close brushes with death myself from which i could predict a tenor's death. i'd like to think that if he's nice, we get to live, even if we'd have to suffer during the main plot.
For the memorable fanfic scene...
Probably the dirty one you wrote after we made a promise to each other to write our fucked fic ideas. ;)
Ah yes that one <3 it was so much fun to write but also I was extremely nervous... it turned out fine in the end though and I'm really glad we encouraged each other to write those two fics!
I'm listening to the audiobook of Solovyov and Larionov by Eugene Vodolazkin (translation by Lisa Hayden), and suddenly I thought, "This book is so up shimyereh's alley," and I just wanted to tell you that.
I wasn't familiar with that — looked it up just now, and it sounds fascinating. Thanks for the rec!
What's your favorite La forza? I'm still looking for the perfect recording.
OOOH OKAY LET'S GO I LOVE FORZA!!!!!!! <333
So basically there are only 2 Forza video recordings that I actually like...
My absolute favorite, and I mean favorite, no other one comes even slightly close, is the 1958 Napoli one with Corelli, Bastianini and Tebaldi! The only problem I have with it is that there's the missing 2nd duet between Carlo and Alvaro, but other than that it's basically perfect. The scenery, SINGING and acting...everything is there and it's INTENSE! All the cast has very strong chemistry, and you really believe that they are feeling all the emotions their characters are! So I strongly recommend this one if you still haven't seen it! This one is the one I always go back to and get never get enough of!
The other one that I like is the 1978 Scala one with Carreras, Cappuccilli, and Caballé! It's the complete version, which is nice, but the singing is also spectacular (which is a bit obvious with that cast XD) and also Carreras is baby. The problem with this one for me is more the acting... I love Carreras, but Cappuccilli is his usual emotionless self, which makes for a rather unexciting dynamic... Caballé is very good vocally, but I don't see a lot of chemistry with the rest of the cast either.... But the staging is classic and good, so I still love this version!
I really want your answer to 11. In fact, I want 2 answers--one traditionalist, one revolutionary. ;)
Traditionalist: Tosca should never ever be modernized. I don’t care every traditional Tosca looks the same. The libretto and music have all the instructions you need. Get singers who can act and let them do their thing.
Revolutionary: I want an epic space version of Billy Budd. Not Space Bohéme style, more of a Mass Effect vibe with an elegant spaceship and breathtaking visuals of stars and nebulas. Also, very, very gay (as it should be). Billy would probably be executed by being ejected from the airlock and I’d show (on film) the singer floating in space.
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