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leporellian · 2 days

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i know everyone (including me) loves the teatro comunale di bologna posters but i feel like we need to talk about the don giovanni one. they understand the assignment, which is 'this guy has to look like a trust fund grade-A SHITHEAD'. truly incredible

#don giovanni #opera tag #rambles

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supercantaloupe · 7 months

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#don giovanni #truer words etc #opera comments #sasha speaks #so happy it got re uploaded to yt. and that this one has english subtitles #now nothing will stop me from sending it to everyone i know

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cy-lindric · 2 years

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Halt, Don Juan ; yesterday you gave your word that you would come dine with me.

#dom juan ou le festin de pierre #Molière #baroque #17th century #Don Juan #Don Giovanni #my art #french lit #1660s #baroque theatre

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alex-leweird · 1 year

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How the "Puss in Boots 2: The last wish" has a very important literature reference

Puss, even his fairytale is Italian, is a obvious reference of a Spanish character: the accent, the swordmaster, ... . But, in this movie, he also embodies a very important figure in the Spanish literature and folklore.

(if you want to know more keep reading)

First a small description of Puss and how he is shown in the begining of the movie. He is an hedonist who loves to drink, eat, flirt and duel without the fear of dying. He doesn't value the things of live and thinks he will live forever as a libertine (licentious).

The most licentious character in the literature is Don Juan.

Even Don Juan is a well-known character, lets talk more abot him and why he is so similar to Puss (not only bc both of them are Andalusians).

Don Juan is not only a literature character from some plays and novels, he is a very popular legend in the Spanish folklore that has two origins in other two tales:

El burlador (The libertine)

El convidado de piedra (The stone guest)

The libertine

Don Juan is an hedonist, it is shown with his lust, gluttony, avarice and his desire for the duels and the scandal. If we notice Puss' deaths we can see this traits:

The flirtatious

The gambling

Gluttony

The 4th, 5th and 6th deaths are related of his pride.

Puss doesn't have the malice that Don Juan does, but the paralelism is obvious.

The Stone Guest

Following most of Don Juan's versions, he goes to the cementary where there is a funerary statue of the Comendador (Commander). He invites the statue to go to his home to have dinner with him in a act of vanity and malice. The statue accepts and joins him for dinner, he will be the one who bring Don Juan to Hell.

To see the conexion with the movie we have to go to the roots of this legend: the oral tradition of el Galán y la calavera (The Gallant and the Skull).

Here some fragments of this tradition (I won't translate this sorry)

These are narrative poems who tells the story of a young man (libertine too) find a skull in his way. He invites the skull to join for a dinner with him while laughing. For his surprise the skull visits him that night and sits with him at the table joining for dinner. The skull didn't eat nor drink anything, but when the protagonist finish his meal, the skull invites him to join for dinner the next day at its/their home. The dinner would be at the grave, meaning that the Skull is Death itself (herself, bc in most Spanish literature Death is she)

This figure evolved into becoming the stone guest but the core is the same. Both, the Skull and the Stone guest are characters which the protagonist mocked and then reveal that they were Death itself.

This scene makes it clear:

The last wish is more close to Zorrilla's version of Don Juan, Puss is saved from Death by the value he learned from his love (and friends).

It also has more references: The movie begins with the fuss Puss makes in the house of the Governor as most of the versions of Don Juan starts with him making fuss in the Comendador's house.

Sooo, here ends this post. I'm not very good at English but I hope you all enjoyed reading this.

#puss in boots #The last wish #Death #puss in boots wolf #Wolf #puss in boots death #Don Giovanni #Don Juan #literature #spanish literature #folklore #stone guest

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princesssarisa · 6 months

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The Top 40 Most Popular Operas, Part 1 (#1 through #10)

A quick guide for newcomers to the genre, with links to online video recordings of complete performances with English subtitles.

Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

The most frequently performed opera worldwide: Mozart's fascinating, philosophical fairy tale opera, which appeals to both children and adults.

San Francisco Opera, 2010 (Piotr Beczala, Dina Kuznetsoca, Christopher Maltman, Erika Miklosa, Georg Zeppenfeld; conducted by Donald Runnicles)

Verdi's La Traviata

Tragic romance with social commentary, based on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias, which was also the basis for the classic 1936 Greta Garbo film Camille.

Los Angeles Opera, 2006 (Renée Fleming, Rolando Villazon, Renato Bruson; conducted by James Conlon)

Bizet's Carmen

The fiery tragedy of a seductive, free-spirited Spanish Romani woman and her loves, with some of opera's most iconic music.

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2006 (Anna Caterina Antonacci, Jonas Kaufmann, Ildebrando d'Arcancelo, Norah Ansellem; conducted by Antonio Pappano)

Puccini's La Bohéme

Relatable slice-of-life romance that blends comedy and tragedy. The inspiration for the popular musical RENT.

Studio film, 1965 (Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi, Rolando Panerai, Adriana Martino; conducted by Herbert von Karajan)

Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

The best loved of Mozart's Italian operas, a great comedy of class conflict and sexual intrigue.

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1994 (Gerald Finley, Alison Hagley, Renée Fleming, Andreas Schmidt, Marie-Ange Todorovich; conducted by Bernard Haitink)

Puccini's Tosca

Political intrigue, lust, and bloodshed amid the splendor of Rome – some call it a "shabby little shocker," others call it thrilling.

Vienna State Opera, 2019 (Sondra Radvanovsky, Piotr Beczala, Thomas Hampson; conducted by Marco Armiliato)

Mozart's Don Giovanni

Arguably the greatest retelling of the legend of Don Juan, with comedy, drama, and Mozart's glorious music.

Salzburg Festival, 1954 (Cesare Siepi, Otto Edelmann, Elisabeth Grümmer, Anton Dermota, Lisa della Casa, Erna Berger, Walter Berry Deszö Ernster; conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler)

Puccini's Madama Butterfly

Puccini's iconic "Japanese tragedy." Controversial from a racial standpoint, but a tearjerker nonetheless, and the inspiration for the musical Miss Saigon.

Feature film, 1995 (Ying Huang, Richard Troxell, Ning Liang, Richard Cowan; conducted by James Conlon)

Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)

The lighter and more madcap prequel to The Marriage of Figaro, known as the quintessential comic opera.

Vienna State Opera, 2019 (Rafael Fingerlos, Juan Diego Flórez, Margarita Gritskova, Paolo Rumetz, Sorin Coliban; conducted by Evelino Pidò)

Verdi's Rigoletto

A richly melodic tragedy of a hunchbacked jester, his daughter, a lecherous duke, and a self-fulfilling curse.

Studio film, 1982 (Ingvar Wixell, Luciano Pavarotti, Edita Gruberova; conducted by Riccardo Chailly)

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mostlyjustgoose · 4 months

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things I cannot say in Italian:

hello

goodbye

thank you

where is (something)

I do not speak Italian

things I can say in Italian:

Mr/Mrs (Name), you invited me to dinner, and here I am

#opera jokes #don giovanni

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californiasplit · 1 year

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i NEED to know what the graphic designer for the national theatre is doing w/ mozarts operas. ive never wanted to pick someones brain quite so much. what is the reason for this. what motivates you. who is this for ?

(i cant find the official poster for the marriage of figaro bc it hasnt premiered yet this year afaik but this is their promotional image for it)

#Mozart #Don Giovanni #cosi fan tutte

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kind-of-a-shitty-wizard · 24 days

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hello opera tumblr im new here and dont know all too much abt opera but i really enjoyed a production of don giovanni that i havent seen anyone mention so i wanted to bring it to more ppl :pp

come to the 2005 teatro real production we have

beautiful set

cool nebulously 1800s-1900s costumes

anachronisms where it works. for example don giovanni wears sunglasses sometimes because of fucking course he would

solid cast especially leporello

(^ like ohmygod... i was about to click off this production to watch the one with samuel ramey but then he started singing madamina and knocked it out of the park so hard that i watched the whole prod. im lorenzo regazzos biggest fan rn)

they dont do that weird thing where they make donna anna be in love with don giovanni

they actually portray donna anna well overall. there’s the right balance of "im in mourning" and "i want revenge" which im given to understand is a rarity

did i mention the sets were cool asf

also they make leporello wear this

its available on youtube here with english subs :]

#anyway this post is really about lorenzo regazzo. has anyone ever heard of lorenzo regazzo. he is so fucking funny #anyway i hope more ppl see it it was rly good :p #WHYY tf did i believe opera was boring before….#i saw the commendatore drag don g into hell and it literally unlocked shrimp emotions in me this shit is not boring #RRAGH #opera tag #don giovanni

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cparti-mkiki · 7 months

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no i know i've already posted about this but it's crazy how don g is an opera that genuinely makes no fucking sense if you divorce it from its original context and yet you'll probably never see a traditional production in your life lol

if don giovanni looks like a hobo and zerlina and masetto are a normal 21st century couple getting married HOW does the plot even happen. like why are you letting this unknown man bully you— and why is he getting away with everything always? where's the police? wait does he have a SLAVE or something? is that legal?

hm.. could it be that the core of the play is that don giovanni..... is a 18th century nobleman?

#my posts #opera #don giovanni

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leporellian · 23 hours

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i think there does need to be a discussion about how a lot of the 'what if donna anna secretly wanted don giovanni' angles come from the idea that she is a boring character on her own and needs to be 'spiced up' when there are many, many baritones and other male opera roles who's whole thing is 'someone killed a loved one and now i'm going to be vengeant about it to the point i'm just hurting myself' and none of Them get seen as 'boring characters that need to be spiced up'. i wonder why as soon as it's a woman doing it, it becomes boring. much to discuss!

#inb4 'and thats why she should be a girlboss instead' girl not that either can we please be normal;#don giovanni #donna anna #opera tag #rambles

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supercantaloupe · 2 months

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there are approximately one hundred thousand productions of don giovanni available to watch online. and so many of them insist on being so bad

#sasha speaks #don giovanni #truly remarkable

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infinitelytheheartexpands · 14 days

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in which the kasper holten don giovanni continues to inspire the worst takes alive,

#opera tag #opera #don giovanni #houston grand opera #<- tag of shame #mozart #wolfgang amadeus mozart #social media fuckery #fuck the kasper holten don giovanni all my homies hate the kasper holten don giovanni

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tuttocenere · 10 months

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does it include a scene where 2 women who have names talk to each other about anything other than a man?

operas included based on whether I know them well enough to say

PASSES BOTH LETTER AND SPIRIT Le Nozze di Figaro Cosi fan Tutte Le Comte Ory Die Fledermaus The Pirates of Penzance

PASSES BUT SHOULDN'T La Fille du Régiment Der Fliegende Holländer Der Ring des Nibelungen La Cenerentola Salome La Traviata Tristan & Isolde Lakmé Die Entführung aus dem Serail

ONLY IF YOU COUNT PANTS ROLES La Donna del Lago Faust (if the scene doesn't get cut)

DOES NOT PASS BUT SHOULD Don Giovanni

FAILS Il Barbiere Di Siviglia Don Pasquale Rigoletto Die Zauberflöte Tannhäuser HMS Pinafore

Verdict: 200yo Operas somehow better at this than Hollywood films

#opera fun #bechdel test #don giovanni

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funeral · 11 months

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E. T. A. Hoffman, Notes on Don Giovanni

#don giovanni #e. t. a. hoffman #quotes

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princesssarisa · 1 month

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Opera on YouTube, Part 2

Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1973 (Knut Skram, Ileana Cotrubas, Kiri Te Kanawa, Benjamin Luxon; conducted by John Pritchard; English subtitles)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1976 (Hermann Prey, Mirella Freni, Kiri Te Kanawa, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; conducted by Karl Böhm; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Tokyo National Theatre, 1980 (Hermann Prey, Lucia Popp, Gundula Janowitz, Bernd Weikl; conducted by Karl Böhm; Japanese subtitles)

Théâtre du Châtelet, 1993 (Bryn Terfel, Alison Hagley, Hillevi Martinpelto, Rodney Gilfry; conducted by John Eliot Gardiner; Italian subtitles)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1994 (Gerald Finley, Alison Hagley, Renée Fleming, Andreas Schmidt; conducted by Bernard Haitink; English subtitles)

Zürich Opera House, 1996 (Carlos Chaussón, Isabel Rey, Eva Mei, Rodney Gilfry; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; English subtitles)

Berlin State Opera, 2005 (Lauri Vasar, Anna Prohaska, Dorothea Röschmann, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo; conducted by Gustavo Dudamel; French subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2006 (Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Anna Netrebko, Dorothea Röschmann, Bo Skovhus; conducted by Nikolas Harnoncourt; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Teatro all Scala, 2006 (Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Diana Damrau, Marcella Orasatti Talamanca, Pietro Spagnoli; conducted by Gérard Korsten; English and Italian subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2015 (Adam Plachetka, Martina Janková, Anett Fritsch, Luca Pisaroni; conducted by Dan Ettinger; no subtitles)

Tosca

Carmine Gallone studio film, 1956 (Franca Duval dubbed by Maria Caniglia, Franco Corelli, Afro Poli dubbed by Giangiacomo Guelfi; conducted by Oliviero de Fabritiis; no subtitles)

Gianfranco de Bosio film, 1976 (Raina Kabaivanska, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes; conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1978 (Shirley Verrett, Luciano Pavarotti, Cornell MacNeil; conducted by James Conlon; no subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 1984 (Eva Marton, Jaume Aragall, Ingvar Wixell; conducted by Daniel Oren; no subtitles)

Teatro Real de Madrid, 2004 (Daniela Dessí, Fabio Armiliato, Ruggero Raimondi; conducted by Maurizio Benini; English subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2011 (Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel; conducted by Antonio Pappano; English subtitles)

Finnish National Opera, 2018 (Ausrinė Stundytė, Andrea Carè, Tuomas Pursio; conducted by Patrick Fournillier; English subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala 2019 (Anna Netrebko, Francesco Meli, Luca Salsi; conducted by Riccardo Chailly; Hungarian subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2019 (Sondra Radvanovsky, Piotr Beczala, Thomas Hampson; conducted by Marco Armiliato; English subtitles)

Ópera de las Palmas, 2024 (Erika Grimaldi, Piotr Beczala, George Gagnidze; conducted by Ramón Tebar; no subtitles)

Don Giovanni

Salzburg Festival, 1954 (Cesare Siepi, Otto Edelmann, Elisabeth Grümmer, Lisa della Casa; conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler; English subtitles)

Giacomo Vaccari studio film, 1960 (Mario Petri, Sesto Bruscantini, Teresa Stich-Randall, Leyla Gencer; conducted by Francesco Molinari-Pradelli; no subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 1987 (Samuel Ramey, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Julia Varady; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; no subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 1987 (Thomas Allen, Claudio Desderi, Edita Gruberova, Ann Murray; conducted by Riccardo Muti; English subtitles)

Peter Sellars studio film, 1990 (Eugene Perry, Herbert Perry, Dominique Labelle, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson; conducted by Craig Smith; English subtitles)

Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, 1997 (Simon Keenlyside, Bryn Terfel, Carmela Remigio, Anna Caterina Antonacci; conducted by Claudio Abbado; no subtitles) – Act I, Act II

Zürich Opera, 2000 (Rodney Gilfry, László Polgár, Isabel Rey, Cecilia Bartoli; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; English subtitles)

Festival Aix-en-Provence, 2002 (Peter Mattei, Gilles Cachemaille, Alexandra Deshorties, Mirielle Delunsch; conducted by Daniel Harding; no subtitles)

Teatro Real de Madrid, 2006 (Carlos Álvarez, Lorenzo Regazzo, Maria Bayo, Sonia Ganassi; conducted by Victor Pablo Pérez; English subtitles)

Festival Aix-en-Provence, 2017 (Philippe Sly, Nahuel de Pierro, Eleonora Burratto, Isabel Leonard; conducted by Jérémie Rohrer; English subtitles)

Madama Butterfly

Mario Lanfranchi studio film, 1956 (Anna Moffo, Renato Cioni; conducted by Oliviero de Fabritiis; no subtitles)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1974 (Mirella Freni, Plácido Domingo; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; English subtitles)

New York City Opera, 1982 (Judith Haddon, Jerry Hadley; conducted by Christopher Keene; English subtitles)

Frédéric Mitterand film, 1995 (Ying Huang, Richard Troxell; conducted by James Conlon; English subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 2004 (Fiorenza Cedolins, Marcello Giordani; conducted by Daniel Oren; Spanish subtitles)

Sferisterio Opera Festival, 2009 (Raffaela Angeletti, Massimiliano Pisapia; conducted by Daniele Callegari; no subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2017 (Maria José Siri, Murat Karahan; conducted by Jonathan Darlington; no subtitles)

Wichita Grand Opera, 2017 (Yunnie Park, Kirk Dougherty; conducted by Martin Mazik; English subtitles)

Teatro San Carlo, 2019 (Evgenia Muraveva, Saimir Pirgu; conducted by Gabriele Ferro; no subtitles)

Rennes Opera House, 2022 (Karah Son, Angelo Villari; conducted by Rudolf Piehlmayer; French subtitles)

#opera #complete performances #youtube #le nozze di figaro #the marriage of figaro #tosca #don giovanni #madama butterfly #madame butterfly #wolfgang amadeus mozart #giacomo puccini

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bobdobalina · 1 year

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On an Instagram clip of Don Giovanni in April 2023

#music #opera #Mozart #Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart #Don Giovanni #people yelling about opera

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