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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
Love Begins
DEAR READER
#extradirty
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@theartofmadeline
Origami Around
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
ojovivo
if i look back, i am lost
$LAYYYTER
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Mozart did not write a grand aria for Giovanni. (...) Giovanni’s psychological development must be therefore inferred solely from his interactions with the other characters, in ensembles and recitatives.
Daniel Barenboim, Don Giovanni
This drawing made me realise that actually I love the comfort zone and I would like to go back into it. Also that I must draw more tigers.
Super quick Narcissus and Goldmund fanart but I based them on the German actors 😇
Anne Carson (2009)
Arthur S. Way (1898)
George Theodoridis (2010)
Ian C. Johnston (2010)
E.P. Coleridge (1910)
Theodore Alois Buckley (1892)
John Peck, Frank Nisetich (1995)
R. Potter (1906)
M. L. West (1987)
William Arrowsmith (1958)
Philip Vellacott (1972)
Michael Wodhull (1782)
Kenneth McLeish (1997)
David Kovacs (2002)
Andrew Wilson (1993)
Euripides - Original (408 BCE)
CHE INFERNO, CHE TERROR!
I fell in love with this scene when I first saw it on Amadeus. I was a kid, almost in my teens but barely. I was just starting out with classical music lessons -- I had wished to start earlier but my parents wouldn't allow me yet, until they were sure that I was -- and I was obsessed with all things classical music, I tell you. I went so far as to go to the local library -- something which up until that point I never really quite bothered to -- to look up books on the topic. One in particularly introduced me to the movie, Amadeus. At the time, I was also crazy about Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca (among many things) so, I begged my parents to get the movie for me, and they did -- bless them.
Needless to say I loved it a lot (still do), and I would put the film on repeat many times. And the Commandatore scene was what captivated and haunted me the most. It had led me down a rabbit hole of sorts, i.e. YouTube clips of live performance of that particular scene to compare which I liked for what reasons.
(Samuel Ramey and Kurt Moll version still tops for me, but I have recently found a recording with Bo Skovhus that I like a lot -- I like the way Don Giovanni's last scream is done)
And this was how I later learned to find other operas (clips or full) to compare and enjoy and experience. I haven't been doing much of that of late. Time for some revisiting.
which word do you prefer?
astronaut
cosmonaut
Both are very neat, but which one is the ✨coolest✨?
opera stream announcement!
what: puccini's la bohème, met opera (audience choice which year/cast!)
when: sunday, april 12, 2pm edt (utc -4), find your local time here
where: kosmi, link will be posted day of
who: everyone is welcome! no account needed, stay for as little or as long as you want!
more info: one of the world's most popular and frequently performed operas, for good reason! a simple tale about starving artists and lovers. approximately two hours, performed in italian with english subtitles. the met has six videos of the same warhorse zeffirelli production featuring various casts, so stream attendees can weigh in on which to watch!
one of my favorite arthurian moments of all time is when gawain accidentally murders a lady and camelot just hands this problem over to guinevere who’s like ok you have to promise to be a feminist now for the rest of your life. and gawain says okay <3 and everything is fine afterwards
i mean gawain is still a murderer afterwards but he does avoid killing women
the cover for spotify's indie running playlist is taking me out ... ok malvolio
𝕯𝖔𝖓 𝕮𝖆𝖗𝖑𝖔.
production: nicholas hytner, 2011 met opera. | carlo: roberto alagna, rodrigo: simon keenlyside.
opera stream: tosca (puccini) 🗡️
when: sunday 29 March, 7pm UK time / UTC+0 (check your local time)
where: kosmi
language: italian (english subs)
duration: 1h 50m
version: 1955 film
cast: heredia-capnist (tosca), corelli (cavaradossi), tagliabue (scarpia)
plot: see "Tosca in a nutshell"
🎶one from ye olde youtube. (note: recording quality reflects the standards of the time)
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it's almost easter so you know what that means: time to celebrate leporello being trapped in the fucking Horrors for his birthday!
in continuing my attempts to get everyone to see 1987 la scala don giovanni, i will be streaming it TWICE on easter. come join me and let's enjoy leporello's terrible horrible no good very bad eternal day together 💖💖💖
shout out to potc character Bootstrap Bill Turner because if he did not have the galaxy brain idea to hide a cursed piece of gold from a bloodthirsty, vicious, immortal pirate crew by sending it to his defenseless child, non of the movies would have taken place the way they did.
Literally father of all time no further notes no further comments
Thinking about THE GREEN KNIGHT recently
Opera Streams: Early-Mid March 2026
1st: [Previously postponed, not 100% confirmed but on the website] Verdi's Luisa Miller from Wiener Staatsoper. Featuring Nadine Sierra, Freddie De Tommaso, and Roberto Tagliavini. Free!
4th: Bizet's Carmen from Malmö Opera. Featuring Claudio Ribas, Matthew White, and Luthando Qave. Rental.
5th: Verdi's Nabucco from Wiener Staatsoper. Featuring Anna Netrebko, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, and Ivan Magrì. Free (with registration)!
6th: Dusapin's Antigone from the Paris Philharmonie. Featuring Christel Loetzsch, Anna Prohaska,and Tómas Tómasson. Free!
7th: Nicole Car Masterclass from Opera for Peace. Free!
8th: Ponchielli's La Gioconda from Gran Teatre del Liceu. Featuring Saioa Hernández, Michael Fabiano, John Relyea, and Violeta Urmana. Rental or season subscription.
8th: The Victoria de los Ángeles Centennial Gala from Gran Teatre del Liceu. Featuring a group of sopranos and mezzos, including Joyce DiDonato, Louise Alder, Marina Viotti, and Juliana Grigoryan, singing de los Ángeles's favorite arias and lieder. Free!
12th: Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito from Wiener Staatsoper. Featuring Emily D'Angelo, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, and Katleho Mokhoabane. Free (with registration)!
[Technically, Midsummer at Teatro Real could show up during these two weeks but I guarantee it won't. Look for it in the next post - it's got a great cast]
Archive notes: Stage+ adds the 2022 Met Lucia di Lammermoor with Nadine Sierra on the 7th. Ooppera Baletti Finland recently added their 2021 La Traviata. Readers may also be interested in a concert-documentary from Bruno de Sá on the 8th.
I saw this Spanish translation of a manga called Mademoiselle Mozart, so I'm gonna use it as my Spanish learning material
Salieri is also here
Opera Stream: Bizet's Carmen 💃🏾
when: sunday 22 February, 7pm UK time (check your local time)
where: kosmi
language: french (english subs)
duration: 2h 40m
cast: grace bumbry, jon vickers, justino diaz, mirella freni (dir. von karajan)
plot: you probably know it – if you don't, you've certainly heard some of the music. toreador, toreador, etc. there's more if you like it.
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