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spirngakawening · 8 months

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Being a theatre nerd is fun - you'll have songs from the musical adaptation of a 2001 film about a sorority girl studying law at Harvard playing in your head before watching a live Italian-language opera production of an early Jacobean-era tragedy loosely based on the history of an 11th century Scottish king, then go home to read fanfic about late 19th century child labourers in the US and another chapter of the big book about early 19th century Russian nobility and military. And you'll love all these things

#legally blonde the musical #macbeth #macbeth opera #newsies #npatgco1812 #war & peace #this is a continuation of my post about reading hamlet and then reading 25apcsb fanfic

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opera-music-tourney · 4 months

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ROUND 1 - OVERTURES PART 2

Songs under the cut

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Die Walküre is the opera that made THE Viking lady, the representative character of all of opera.

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virgil-dantes · 1 year

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There is something about classic literature that hits different - which is not to say that modern literature lacks depth - there is just something so incredible about reading something and knowing that these same words were consumed by people decades, centuries before you took your first breath. And they loved and felt the stories the way you do& despite all the time separating you you’re still connected…

#classics #classic literature #antigone #frankenstein #dracula #dr jekyll and mr hyde #crime and punishment #the picture of dorian gray #macbeth #hamlet #inferno #the divine comedy #the brothers karamazov #notes from the underground #war and peace #to kill a mockingbird #the great gatsby #the phantom of the opera #the catcher in the rye

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trashpidgeon48 · 3 months

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You consume happy media when you’re feeling bad? Nah, I consume inescapable tragedies.

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achildsfirstsorrow · 7 days

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Thinking about Erik nerding out over Shakespeare in a doc wip I have. Yes he's projecting as per usual and yes i'm a nerd and it's stupid and fun.

BECAUSE OF COURSE HE PROJECTS ONTO CALIBAN (Jfc.) PROSPERO AND OBERON AND ORSINO AND AND A

#Macbeth and Twelfth Night are so fun to me.#I revisit the doc every month - write about a sentence or so and then abandon it. No you won't ever know anything about it.#poto #phantom of the opera oc #erik phantom #phic #ACFSrambles #This specific bit is what has been on my mind for way too long right now.

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jomarchswritingjacket · 22 days

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i said i’d do a part 2 and i am but a gay woman of my word

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costumeinperformance · 6 months

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Ellen Terry's "Lady Macbeth" (1888) costume, designed by Alice Laura Comyns Carr, made with beetle wings embroidery

from National Trust Collections

#opera #lady macbeth #alice laura comyns carr #costume #costume design

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girlscarpia · 8 months

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Putting "opera bracket on tumblr" in the list on incidents related to la forza del destino on the italian wiki page of the opera

#it's considered an unlucky opera sometime theater people avoid telling its title entirely #italian macbeth basically lmao

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sixty-silver-wishes · 11 months

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man can we talk about how much of an icon shostakovich was writing "lady macbeth of the mtsensk district" okay so for some context, the opera was written in 1932 and is based on the nikolai leskov novel of the same name. in the late 20s/early 30s soviet union, feminist ideology was the focus of a lot of cultural discussions, and this is very much reflected in "lady macbeth," a story originally about a femme fatale whom shostakovich largely humanizes and portrays as a victim of circumstance. (he was also planning on writing a cycle of operas centering around female protagonists, but after the 1936 denunciation, this obviously never happened.) so I want to highlight two interesting sources when it comes to feminism and "lady macbeth"- so this first bit comes from an interview with nadezhda welter in elizabeth wilson's bio, who premiered the role of sonyetka. in many productions of the opera, sonyetka is portrayed as a selfish "whore" to katerina's quasi-"madonna," using her sexuality to seduce katerina's (god-awful) lover and drive her to her demise. however, according to welter, shostakovich had a far more nuanced vision for this character, seeing her as a young and immature victim of systemic class and gender discrimination -

and then there's how shostakovich characterizes katerina herself. this is from a letter to his friend isaak glikman in 1962. after stalin's death, shostakovich wanted to get his opera restaged after it had been censored for years. however, it's interesting to me how he reacts with disgust to a theatre producer’s proposition that the character of katerina should be pregnant in a revival of the opera, in order to make her more sympathetic to audiences.

for context on the opera, katerina is a highly complex character. she's desperate for a way out of her social situation and her life with an abusive husband and father-in-law. she's later sexually assaulted by this guy named sergei, but she ends up entering a relationship with him, possibly because between sergei and her husband, she views him as the lesser of two evils. throughout the opera, we see sergei's repulsive views on women, and katerina seems more than anything like she's trying to convince herself she made the right decision, that as horrific as sergei is, she's better off with him than her husband. she and sergei murder her husband and father-in-law, but at the wedding, a drunk peasant discovers the bodies in a cellar. they are arrested and sent to a prison camp, and katerina remains devoted to sergei- if only because he's all she has left. meanwhile, sergei cheats on her with sonyetka, a young prostitute also in the prison camp.

in other words, katerina has been through absolute hell, and yet this producer suggests she's somehow not sympathetic enough, and that on top of all that, she has to be pregnant to evoke sympathy from the audience. thankfully, shostakovich did not go through with that suggestion, recognizing how unnecessary it was.

#classical music #music #opera #music history #lady macbeth of the mtsensk district #shostakovich #dmitri shostakovich #classical music history #composer #btw the vienna state opera is streaming lady macbeth tomorrow lol #so now I'm thinking about it a lot

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citrus-cactus · 3 months

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Bye, failwoman! Bye, babygirl! Enjoy your nap, see you (checks notes) next episode!

#JUST KIDDING I DON'T HAVE TO CHECK MY NOTES #gargoyles #disney's gargoyles #macbeth mac findlaech #demona #weird sisters #you can’t screencap city of stone without screencapping the end #IT’S SO GOOD IT’S SO GOOD IT’S AN EPIC FANTASY SOAP OPERA AND I LOVE IT #PEAK STORYTELLING PEAK TELEVISION RIGHT HERE #I'm done with the picspam for now thanks for accompanying me while I scream about a sad tired fictional animated man #please watch gargoyles lolol

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aestheticsilentboy · 6 months

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#macbeth #macbeth underworld #aesthetic #chaotic academia #dark academia moodboard #dark romanticism #dark academic #books and literature #brown aesthetic #opera #paris

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princesssarisa · 7 months

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The Top 40 Most Popular Operas, Part 4 (#31 through #40)

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

Donizetti's Don Pasquale

Another comedy of manners with a melodic bel canto score.

Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, 2003 (Alessandro Corbelli, Eva Mei, Antonino Siragusa, Roberto de Candia; conducted by Gérard Korsrten)

Verdi's Macbeth

The first of Verdi's great Shakespearean operas.

Zürich Opera, 2001 (Thomas Hampson, Paoletta Marrocu, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Luis Lima; conducted by Franz Welser-Möst)

Beethoven's Fidelio

Beethoven's only opera, a drama of love, courage, and idealism in the face of political corruption.

Vienna State Opera, 1979 (Gundula Janowitz, René Kollo, Hans Sotin, Manfred Jungwirth, Lucia Popp; conducted by Leonard Bernstein)

Gounod's Faust

One of the most wildly popular operas in the 19th and early 20th centuries: a melodic French interpretation of the Faust legend.

Vienna State Opera, 1985 (Francisco Araiza, Gabriela Benacková, Ruggero Raimondi; conducted by Erich Binder)

Richard Strauss's Salome

Strauss's one-act operatic translation Oscar Wilde's erotic and powerful Biblically-inspired play.

Teatro Comunale di Bologna, 2010 (Erika Sunnegårdh, Mark S. Doss, Robert Brubaker, Dalia Schaechter, Mark Milhofer; conducted by Nicola Luisotti)

Puccini's Gianni Schicchi

Puccini's only comic opera, a rollicking one-act farce inspired by a passage from Dante's Divine Comedy.

Teatro alla Scala, 2008 (Leo Nucci, Nino Machiadze, Vittorio Grigolo, Cinzia De Mola; conducted by Riccardo Chailly)

Verdi's Don Carlo

A grand, tragic historical drama of politics, love vs. duty, intergenerational conflict, friendship (of the vaguely homoerotic variety), and abuse of power.

Metropolitan Opera, 1983 (Plácido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Louis Quilico, Grace Bumbry, Ferruccio Furlanetto; conducted by James Levine)

Bellini's Norma

A great bel canto soprano vehicle, depicting a tragic love triangle amid the Roman conquest of Gaul.

Sydney Opera House, 1978 (Joan Sutherland, Margareta Elkins, Ron Stevens, Clifford Grant; conducted by Richard Bonynge)

Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos

A unique "opera within an opera" that explores the themes of comedy vs. drama and "low art" vs. "high art."

Salzburg Festival, 1965 (Hildegard Hillebrecht, Sena Jurinac, Reri Grist, Jess Thomas; conducted by Karl Böhm)

Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice)

A groundbreaking early Classical interpretation of the Orpheus myth, replacing the pageantry of Baroque opera with "noble simplicity."

Feature film, 2014 (Bejun Mehta, Eva Liebau, Regula Mühlemann; conducted by Vaclav Luks) (no subtitles; read the libretto in English translation here)

#opera #top 40 #31 through 40 #video #complete performances #english subtitles #don pasquale #macbeth #fidelio #faust #salome #gianni schicchi #don carlo #norma #ariadne auf naxos #orfeo ed euridice

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capn-o-my-soul · 5 months

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i love measuring time in units of classical music pieces

that supplemental essay i just drafted? took me one Pulcinella (stravinsky)

this homework assignment from last week? about the same time commitment as Glazunov symphony no. 1

the calligraphy project my sister and i are working on? now the text alone took me one Mahler 2, one Shostakovich 13, and one The Miraculous Mandarin (bartok). phew!

#classical music #i have a problem #but i also have a document of classical pieces that i like of every time length ranging from #the entr'act from lady macbeth of mtsensk (2 mins)#to mahler 3 (95 mins)#(i don't include operas or long ballets or anything like that)

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doyouknowthisopera · 5 months

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