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misera elvira
[ID: a pencil and marker drawing of donna elvira and don giovanni from the opera don giovanni. don giovanni is a man with pale skin, medium toned hair and beard, wearing dark pants and a long sleeve shirt open to expose his chest. he is lying unconscious on the floor. elvira is crouched behind him, leaning over and holding him close with one arm. she wears a pale tank top and grey skirt and her dark hair obscures her head and face. a small bouquet of flowers lies on the floor in front of them. the colors are muted greys and blues, with pale pink highlights.]
sketch, detail, and ref under the cut ⬇
source: 2017 festival international d’art lyric d’aix-en-provence, dir. Jean-François Sivadier
#art and soul#don giovanni#donna elvira#traditional art#fanart#my black marker is dying. sob.#i'm not 100% happy with how the shadows came out but oh well. no undo button in real life#anyway. this one's for the Despairing Women fans in my audience#i am forever cursed to be unable to take good photos of my drawings. rip.
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#no way no one made this joke already but i had this idea and thought that i have to draw this immediately#also i gotta think abt how i want to see don g characters in my drawing style bc i don’t like how the designs i came up with a while ago#look like. i like elvira and anna and masetto but others…..hmmmmmm#opera tag#don giovanni#donna elvira#donna anna#don ottavio#masetto#im sorry
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leporello and elvira best friends forever. you agree with this post. reblog
#i know i’ve made this exact post before but who care#don giovanni#leporello#donna elvira#opera tag#rambles
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Donna Elvira versions
From productions I've seen.
The nun
In many versions of Don Juan, Donna Elvira (or equivalent) is explicitly a nun or novice that Don Juan abducts from a nunnery to "marry" her. So why not in the Mozart opera as well? The general idea appears in the epilogue after all. Very rarely means anything beyond the costume, very rarely stops the director from putting her in a silk nightie in the second act.
The manly one
This version wears masculine clothing and / or carries a weapon. She can be a bit of a mirror image of Don Giovanni himself. No wonder everyone's in love with her, as am I. Angry Elvira best Elvira.
The ball and chain
Shes Don Giovanni's wife and gets to represent every negative stereotype about wives. May be pregnant or in a wedding dress. May be running after Don Giovanni because nobody else wants her, and jealous of the attractive Annas and Zerlinas. In some cases I get the feeling the director really hates women. In other cases it works well.
The pure heart
This Elvira does not have many thoughts in her head but does have a lot of pure love in her heart. Notable for being the only character in this opera who isn't evil, selfish or chronically angry. In this case, for once, it seems kind of plausible that she might redeem Don G in the end. But of course, she does not. This isn't a Wagner opera after all.
The otherworldly beauty
When we look more closely, however, we notice her effect on him as a woman still so powerfully attractive that he is able to recognise her scent: “Zitto: mi pare sentire odor di femmina…” (Act I, Scene 4, recitative). This moment is portrayed in many productions as commonplace, but is in fact an allusion to the fact that their relationship is not entirely over.
- Daniel Barenboim, Don Giovanni
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h elp i didn’t think her outfit through.
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Some further comments on those Don Giovanni program notes I just reblogged:
(1) I do think the way the program notes apply each of the Seven Deadly Sins to the opera's non-Giovanni characters is interesting. I don't necessarily agree with all the choices, though. I would never think to name "envy" as Donna Elvira's sin: yes, she wants a man who isn't "hers" anymore, but she doesn't envy the other women he seduces, she tries to protect them from him. I'm not sure if I agree with their choice of "lust" for Donna Anna either. But I like the way they did it. If they had to choose "lust" as Anna's sin, I'm glad that instead of taking the popular route and imagining that she lusts after Don Giovanni, they claim that her fatal flaw was lust for Don Ottavio, because she let the man she thought was him into her bedroom, despite how unseemly that would have been in their time and place. I wouldn't mind seeing more productions take that view of her. The idea that she blames herself for her own sexual assault and her father's death because she gave too much into her passion for Ottavio is a valid one. It would explain why she refuses to let Ottavio console her or even think of marrying him until her mourning is done, without claiming that she doesn't really love him.
(2) It's interesting to see Lady Caroline Lamb's famous quote about Lord Byron, "Mad, bad, and dangerous to know," applied to Don Giovanni. It fits, of course, but it stands out for me because I've only seen that quote applied to one other man besides Byron himself. A man associated with moody Romantic literature because his sisters wrote it: Branwell Brontë. And I had just been thinking that Christopher Maltman's Don Giovanni in the 2008 Salzburg production – the Don who's slowly and painfully dying throughout the opera, but trying to pretend he isn't – reminds me of the stories of two of the Brontë siblings' deaths. First, Branwell, with his alcohol, drugs, and love affairs, the fact that he seems to have ignored his illness and stayed up and about in the village until just a few days before he died, and the legend that at the very end, either to emulate the Roman emperor Vespasian or just to prove the power of human will over bodily weakness, he insisted on getting out of bed and died standing up. (I don't know if that story is true or not, though – Charlotte's letters never mention it.) Second, Emily, who also stubbornly ignored her illness, refused to see a doctor or take medicine, and struggled to go about her normal life for as long as she was physically able. Of course they were dying of tuberculosis, not a bullet in the stomach. But I still imagine that for their sisters, their father, and the servant women Tabby and Martha, helplessly watching them was a process very much like what poor Leporello goes through in that Don Giovanni production.
#opera#don giovanni#thoughts#donna elvira#donna anna#the brontes#branwell bronte#emily bronte#tw: death
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On October 29, 1787 the opera "Don Giovanni" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart have his first Performance in Prague National Theatre. This original evening note from November 28, 1883, shows the first performance of this opera at The Metropolitan Opera in New York. This was the very first season of the MET.
Walter Kaschmann sang the title role and the two famous singers Christina Nilsson and Marcella Sembrich sung first time together in this Operahouse.
#Marcella Sembrich#Christina Nilsson#Christine Nilsson#Metropolitan Opera#Don Giovanni#Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart#Donna Anna#Donna Elvira#Don Juan#opera buffa#comic opera#opera#bel canto#classical music#music history
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would you look at that *nods approvingly*
@madmozarteanfelinefantasy
#PERFECT anna/elvira energy#opera tag#opera#don giovanni#donna anna#donna elvira#awwwwww is don ottavio the third wheel? is he the measly third wheel? yeah fuck off ottavio#mozart#wolfgang amadeus mozart#oper frankfurt 2014 if anyone was curious
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Don Giovanni
Bryn Terfel, Renée Fleming, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Solveig Kringelborn, Paul Groves, Hei-Kyung Hong, John Relyea, Sergei Koptchak
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine
Production by Franco Zeffirelli, 2000
Act 1 - E. Don Giovanni's ballroom - 2. Finale Act 1
Soon Zerlina scream is heard; Elvira, Anna and Ottavio, as well as Masetto, make to rescue her. Giovanni re-enters, dragging Leporello and denouncing him as the miscreant. No one, however, believe him, and Act 1 ends in confusion, with Elvira, Anna and Ottavio facing Giovanni and calling down vengeance upon him.
Index - Next Scene
#GIFetto#Don Giovanni#wolfgang amadeus mozart#orchestra#Opera#Donna Anna#Renée Fleming#Don Ottavio#Paul Groves#Donna Elvira#Solveig Kringelborn#Bryn Terfel#Masetto#John Relyea#Zerlina#Hei-Kyung Hong#Leporello#Ferruccio Furlanetto#Met Opera
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analysis of Leporello in my novel
Leporello in my novel is not a bad guy nor a character that’s serves comic relief he is the main character in this novel here are some facts I’ve written to better understand his character
As soon as he took the job at Monsieur Madeleines factory he went into the woods and buried the catoulog hopeing never to dig it up again
He loves his job even if it’s just walking around the factory and keeping eye on the workers
He is very loyal to Madeleine he likes him better then Giovanni
He finally get sleep Leporello sleeps at first in the servants quarters in Madeleines mansion but when he met Fantine he slept in her apartment up until she got fired Leporello moves back in with Madeleine
He writes to Elvira every day
He now eats good food thanks to Madeleine
Madeleine and Leporello have one thing in common they both love to garden
Leporello spends his free time gardening with Madeleine
Leporello is the most important character in my novel if it wasn’t for him this novel would not have been made
@madmozarteanfelinefantasy
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i like donna elvira best when shes portrayed as a very wet kitten in a cardboard box in the rain. girlboss elvira is alright i guess but i like her better when shes the most sopping wet pathetic little thing imaginable. shes my teddy bear and she needs to go in the drier
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i haven't drawn in a month, we're so back. anyway STREAM THE DEATH OF DON JUAN ‼️‼️
#art and soul#tdodj#WE'RE SO BACK!!!#this is your sign to go watch red leporellian's play right now#leporello#don juan#donna elvira
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Any plans to get married
VJ no
L we’re just dating
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instead of drawing anything actually meaningful or useful or just even like Not Annoying i have decided to use leporello and elvira as practice for drawing different outfits. sorry
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I have this headcanon for Donna Elvira where she's not a noble by birth but some sort of city person who had a job and her own household and who was pretty thrilled to be ennobled by marrying Don Giovanni.
It's fun because:
gives her a better reason to be so obsessed with him, even after everything he does
explains why, in the opera, she doesn't have any brothers, father and so on arguing for her, she's on her own
nice parallel to Zerlina for the fermati scellerato scene
also gives some additional bitterness to the whole Leporello missed connections situation if they're from the same class
also in terms of the catalogue aria it's more fun if she feels inferior to half the listed categories of women
also we know Mozart wrote the opera for the Nozze superfans and that would make her more similar to Rosina
also also she's a mezzo carattere which is not normal for a noble (although it has been argued Mozart / Da Ponte made their nobles mid on purpose for political reasons)
and finally she just seems like she'd have a job. Practical! Decisive! Stressed out!
#isabella is pretty much the highest ranking noble in the molina play but let's not think about that#don giovanni#donna elvira#thoughts on
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waves
transcribing my scribbles
droopy sleeves
donna elvira
haircut because i believe in butch elvira supremacy
they both have intense eyebags
no idea what this fit is but :shrugs:
height difference
wlw & mlm solidarity
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