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[todgeweihtes-haupt]

The Willows Are New - Chou Wen-Chung

Provided to YouTube by Zebralution GmbH The Willows Are New · Tsai Chai-Hsio Children's Suite ℗ 1996 Thorofon Records Co. Released on: 1996-01-01 C O M P O S...

only just found out that chou wen-chung died last october

[likeniobe]

can’t believe that this kind of programming isn’t some weird fever dream that I had

[lesbianartandartists]

Cynthia Consentino, Wolf Girl II, 2003

[parmandil]

that article about how forbidden love being a core of Wagner’s operas played a large part in Bayreuth becoming a notoriously popular gay meeting place HAUNTS me……… image being a late 19th century gay German man and your only relatable #rep is literal twincest

[husband]

you want want Murphy has.

[ironpour]

philip glass found dead 

[operanerd]

🏳️‍🌈 Darling Opera Fandom 🏳️‍🌈

Thank you also so much for helping me with my research! So many of you, much more than I dared to hope, have helped me out with my first survey and got me over 100 responses in only 48 hours. Once again I call upon your assistance. I have read your comments to my last survey, and decided that I needed to do a follow-up questionnaire in order to cater to what you wanted to share and expand the scope of information that would benefit my research. Please follow the link to the questionnaire Sapphic Sensuality and Lesbianism in Opera 2.0 and help a gal out? https://www.survio.com/survey/d/X8O9X3G1L3T4R4P5W

I am honestly so grateful for all your help, and I’m also so grateful for being a part of this online community for the past six years. This thesis started as an off-hand comment to a friend, but has grown into what I hope will be something that sheds light on a community of wlw opera lovers that is not often discussed by the people who make the decisions in the elitist art form that we hold so dear. I know that for myself as a baby lesbian who turned out to be an opera singer, being a part of this community where I could scream about my love of women in trouser roles and women being loved on by trouser roles has enriched and eased my life on several occasions.

So thank you all.

Xoxo ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[operanerd]

Please help me by filling this in! I 130 respondents to the first survey, so it would be great if I had as close to that amount on the second one as well, so my amount of data is equal and useful. 🙏🏼💕

[thequeensthroat]

yeah we gay keep scrolling

[parmandil]

crucial energy for 2019

[operanerd]

Dear Queer Opera Lovers,

I have made a survey for the field research part of my thesis about lesbianism and sapphic sensuality/sexuality in opera as an art form and as an interpretation on the operatic stage. It would help me greatly if you could fill out these questions and/or share it with any gay, lesbian, otherwise saphically interested person you know.

https://www.survio.com/survey/d/V7C4W8U8Z6U8E8K8L

Heterosexuals, do not be afraid: if you have a keen interest in the gayer side of opera, you may also fill out this survey. Everyone is welcome.

Thank you so much! 🏳️‍🌈

[operanerd]

Just wanted to say thank you to all of you who have already answered this questionnaire in less than 12 hours!!! I’m also already working on a follow-up survey that will take into account your answers to the last question. ❤️

[thequeensthroat]

Impulse bought a Big Necklace, lads

[todgeweihtes-haupt]

watching andrew scott hamlet like wow this is almost as good as pelleas

[likeniobe]

hey guys happy to announce that I’m switching my major from med/ren to media arts and sciences

[parmandil]

love every single word of this

[detroitlib]

On this day in history, December 24, 1871 – The Opera Aida opens in Cairo, Egypt.

Portrait of soprano Ellabelle Davis costumed for the role of Aida. Printed on front: “Ellabelle Davis, soprano. National Concert and Artists Corporation, 711 Fifth Avenue, New York 22, N.Y.” Typed on back: “Aida in the news. When soprano, Ellabelle Davis, appears in concert at the [blank] in [blank] on [blank], music lovers of this city will hear an artist who wrote musical history not long ago by becoming the first American Negro ever to have been starred by a major opera company of the world. Miss Davis is shown here costumed for the role of Aida, which she sang with the Opera Nacional in Mexico City, supported by a cast of stars from La Scala, Milan, and New York’s Metropolitan, which has traditionally closed its doors to colored singers. Photo: Alfred Valente.”

Courtesy of the E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

[fuks]

[alliluyevas]

being a minor dancer in the ballets russes must have been wild, the sheer amount of drama and controversy both artistically and personally

just constantly

[alliluyevas]

when you’re just tryna dance but your company’s star dancer and choreographer who happens to be your boss’s boyfriend randomly marries this Hungarian woman he met while crossing the Atlantic on a boat which your boss was not on due to having been told by a fortune teller he would die on the water and then your boss has an emotional breakdown and fires your star dancer who then also has a breakdown

[theburialofstrawberries]

me watching youtube videos on mute of conductors waving with their neat little stick