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with apologies to the "bigger (orchestra) is always better" crowd but i think basically every verdi show ever would be improved if you cut the orchestra size in half. chamber opera for the win
#sasha speaks#late romantics dni i suppose lol#the one exception i will allow is la traviata which can start with a massive orchestra and get progressively smaller#over the course of the opera#like full orchestration in act i chamber orchestra act ii and basically just a quartet or something by act iii#we're haydn farewell symphony-ing this bitch. Opera Companies Hire Me
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phantom of the opera + twitter
#phantom stan twitter AU is alive and well#can you actually imagine the chaos unfolding when the chandelier falls#you'd have conspiracy theorists saying that the managers staged it themselves as an insurance thing or something#of course the ballet girls would be all over the tl claiming they saw the ghost do it#you'd have some mysterious acc with 0 followers hopping in on the drama to say the chandelier was 'very old and worn and fell of itself!'#the managers would have to do damage control the next day#the poor opera house PR team wouldn't sleep for days#ugh the insanity of it all#phantom of the opera#poto#poto shitpost#poto twit
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so.... who was gonna tell me that Lucio's masquerade costume was based on Raoul (phantom of the opera)'s masquerade costume
#the arcana#count lucio#lucio#lucio morgasson#phantom of the opera#im dying squirtle#no seriously i am. SO ILL OVER THIS#this was the most earth shattering realisation. of COURSE they keep the phantom references going#of COURSE he gets to become the heroic love interest#i am truly insane over this. oh my god#this was really probably very self evident lready for many folks around here but give me a break i literally only jumped back after years#god. godddd
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me when im obsessed with dead singers from 50 (well... mostly 70-120) years ago and im heartbroken to know i'll never see them on stage... never hear them breathe, never see them sweat, never even touch the hem of their garment...
it really is enough to drive a person mad...
#this is so funny because this is the one vaguepost that i wholeheartedly 100% agree with skdhsjshsjdhsn#like yeah!! it does indeed pain me that the level of operatic singing has so drastically decreased over the last 50 years!#that top operatic stars of today are all either nasal or wobbly or knödely or completely inaudible without microphones#but some of yall are just not ready for this conversation. example a#anyway. as many have said before. its kinda easier to understand how some people cant appreciate certain operas#if they never heard them sung well lol#sorry im out of blood today. i know this is a very uncomfortable subject for many but.#you can actually judge someone's singing in a pretty objective way. there are nuances of course. but from a technical point of view#it really is pretty simple#(also its not like i dont enjoy *some* modern singers lol have you SEEN my kwiecień posting???? lmao#hell. there are even some modern singers i have a soft spot who i KNOW sing... Not Very Well. but i enjoy them lol#not many ofc but. yknow)#also 50 years ago would be the 1970s if im doing my maths correctly and. that is really the point in opera history#when it all started going downhill (sadly partly because of one of my all time favourite singers' influence... but thats a different story)#anyway. remember when luis tetrazzini said that the future generations of singers will be The Best singers in history#because they'll have access to all those recordings of The Greats Of The Past that they'll be able to listen to and learn from?#lmao queen you were right about so many things but that was tragically not one of them </3#opera tag#yes im stirring the pot of boiling liquid shit and putting this post gently into the main tag#*luisA tetrazzini ofc#lol and lmao im out FOR blood* shdgsjsghs
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Image credit to this youtube video of the song itself
Je t'ai rencontrée simplement | I met you simply
Et tu n'as rien fait pour chercher à me plaire | And you did nothing to try and please me
Je t'aime pourtant | Yet I love you
D'un amour ardent | With an ardent love
Dont rien, je le sens, ne pourra me défaire | Of which nothing, I feel, will be able to undo me
Tu seras toujours mon amante | You will always be my lover
Et je crois à toi comme au bonheur suprême | And I believe in you as in supreme happiness
Je te fuis parfois, mais je reviens quand même | I run away from you sometimes, but I return all the same
C'est plus fort que moi, Je t'aime | It's stronger than me, I love you
Interesting how this has been made to be the ending theme for the game, and in turn, the overarching theme woven through.
#Lies of P#Translated by my Canadian friend who knows French! I knew google translate had some weirdness in there so I wanted her input first~#Not saying it means anything significant but... well... c: I'll just be over here in my... shipper's corner..#steepling my fingers and thinking how this was playing just before the opera house ♡#And granted it's Adelina Corday so of course it'd be playing just before the location you meet her#But. Well. Y'know. It's also the end theme. So that. Is interesting. Considering your whole world is turned upside down.#After that level. Just. Y'know. Saying. History hates-- what? I won't finish it ♡#I'M KIDDING TBH-- for the most part. Just kinda love that it fits my bias is all ♡
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well everyone now that sparkstember is over i can now devote my energy to being insane in other still sparks-related ways
#planning my next projects#on the one hand glad to not have to get a whole video done in the span of like 2 hours every day#on the other hand it was a fun creative challenge that gave me a sense of purpose. it was fun#but i need to keep myself busy as we descend into winter and ✨seasonal depression✨#if i dont get it done today over the next couple days im going to make something silly for goofball's upcoming birthday#and then once that's done i dont know. i want to get back to work on my screenplay and try to FINISH IT!! but idk how long that'll take#i also have to finally finish watching that film course i bought oops. maybe ill start it over#and then?????????#i have a vague Idea of a possible short film i could make. that would also be like a kind of prequel to my Main Film Idea#and its something i could actually reasonably do as a short film and its not like insanely big budget like every other idea i have is#and I'm debating abt emailing my old film teacher and being like heyyyyy maybe you could help me make this short film????#but id want to have this idea way more planned out and written before then. but OUGH WRITING ANOTHER SCREENPLAY???#WHEN I HAVEN'T EVEN FINISHED MY FIRST ONE??? sigh.#the road to making my Big Great Movie is long and arduous. will we get there. who knows#oh also debating abt writing a letter to those silly guys. but i don't knowwwww#OH lmao i keep forgetting to mention i finally got my passport (it actually came earlier than expected)#so like. goodbye everyone im heading to the sydney opera house on halloween (JOKE i am not that insane. but i wish i could)
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on that art post ive gotten a handful of comments in the tags implying that soj has a notable amount of haters which honestly im a bit surprised about since i think its the best put together game in the second trilogy
#has a coherent storyline without any gaping holes or massive loose ends#with fun and interesting characters with their own things going on.#and also i dearly love political drama and terrible messy family soap operas and the final case had an abundance of both#of course massive points deducted on the names & the whole ''savage backwards religious nation'' . we couldve uh....#we couldve done a lot better on that one guys#but tbh id replay soj over dd or apollo justice in a heartbeat
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He stops in front of her and leans his elbows on the bar.
She tilts her head. "You catch him?"
"Which him?" Hanna says. Her mood is expected.
"John Dilinger him. Jean Valjean him. Bigfoot him."
"Sorry, baby."
HE'S SUCH A FUCKING WISE GUY
#rest of the 'scene' is of course packed with rock opera/bowie/who references now that I look it over lmao. AND ANDREW LLOYD WEBER LOL#heat 2#michael mann#public enemies#the dark knight#american psycho#velvet goldmine#insane that I get to use those tags together
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forgot Goth Opera was like this.
#why would they do this.#as a yellowjackets fan I am of course big on devoted religious fuckery#but this??#this is. sick. it's SICK I'm SICK going to be SICK#oh god I'm never going to get over this am I#goth opera#tegan jovanka#nyssa of traken#(rereading because the audio comes out just before my birthday)
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*wischt Tränchen weg* natürlich wurden sie das
#of course you're sueing each other over conflicting applause during a Wagner opera#headlines#BundesTag#german stuff
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Ouuugh fucking. The Dolls of New Albion. Hate trying to articulate how much i love things. Very powerful piece of media. Plus its a musical/opera whatever its got banging musical catered specifically to me. <3
#found it like a couple years ago and i recently remembered it and by god its so good#ouuugh recurring musical motifs that change meaning over the course of the media…..#oooouuuuuggghaaaaaauuug#its basically like. the story of this girl and her descendants#and like. she invented like living dolls that can replace ur dead loved ones#and like it follows her descendents as this invention like changes society#but it remains very personal and heartbreaking. lost loves and stuff. romantic and familial. ough.#also like some of my favorite music ever…#if you see me adding some songs to the hanzawa playlist. no you didnt. <3#to the void#sunnfish.jrnl#i feel like the way im talking about it is very normal. please understand i am very much not normal about this opera
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unclear whether i'm getting upgraded to principal on the KC concert or not...?
#sasha speaks#oboeposting#dan says he 'got his dates fucked up' and won't be there but the roster still says i'm second#(lol of course we aren't swapping seats i'm just the replacement if he's gone)#but it's weird cause we're recycling a lot of the KC rep for our april concert and i wouldn't expect them to have us swap parts again#well we'll see i guess... it's all opera for us for the next month anyway. then i'll get a week before KC lol#so there's no time to fuss over it anyway#(it would be nice to play principal on the vltava tho. i think it'd be nicer to play principal with a sectionmate playing second#rather than being alone up there again but. still nice)
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timeloop production of pelléas et mélisande is litchrally right there
@madmozarteanfelinefantasy
#opera tag#opera#pelléas et mélisande#claude debussy#pelléas and mélisande#debussy#red i’m tagging you because you’re the one who loves timeloops in opera#litchrally the last line is ‘now in her place it’s the turn of the poor little girl’#which. the girl is mélisande’s daughter#something something complicity in abuse and allowing the cycle to happen over and over again#i think more people need to address the fact that golaud is just. horribly abusive to EVERYONE#and of course mélisande is in an ongoing abusive situation and is traumatized as fuck
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as i’m sure you know, rewrite erik is a demiboy, someone who only partially identifies as a guy... but he might be a trans girl? :o
i’ve talked about that before, but i wrote a little scene where he questions his identity and he feels so euphoric when he says ‘i’m a woman’! it’s so awesome to see him discover his true self!!! :D
although he identifies as a girl, he still uses 'he/him’ pronouns because ‘she/her’ doesn’t feel quite right. but does that mean he’s still a girl? i found out that a late 19th century trans woman named jennie june identified as a girl, but used male pronouns... just like rewrite erik could! ;D
#i was writing a little scene where rewrite erik talks to his mirror reflection and it turned into a discovery journey!#i could sense his wide smile and absolute joy when he called himself a woman! :D#maybe he could use 'she/her' in the future but for now 'he/him' feels ok :)#the narration in the rewrite used 'they/them' when he was the red death so that's an option too! ;)#i'm just happy that he's becoming his true self#in the rewrite he says he's not quite sure if he's a man and relates to the author george sand#disguising himself as kristin in one of the mystery stories is the next step! ;D#it helps him realize 'oh wow i feel way more comfortable as a girl this is awesome!'#and of course christine & nadir support him the entire way! :')#the mystery is just over a year after the rewrite so the demi flag in the eristine pride month pic is still accurate in a way! ;)#edit: maybe the demi flag will be kept because he says he's 10% man! (he doesn't identify as it but he sees the physical guy signs)#he's 90% queen bby! ;)#and he's 50% opera ghost of course! ;D#would trans girl demiboy be right? idk but i'm still learning (alongside rewrite erik of course)! :)#all i know for sure is that he's definitely an intersex opera ghost! ;)#poto rewritten
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Eh gads! Brother T got me talking about the only pit orchestra I ever played in (local community theatre). But. Like, it's not on youtube or anywhere else. Was is all actually a fever dream? No, the wikipedia page exists. Oh, it's technically an operetta. Still unfindable. Still sucks. Probably. Gonna have to agree with the NYT Reviewer who called it, "one of the most overpoweringly dull musical dramas of all time" and compared its slow plot to "being hit over the head with a sledge hammer repeatedly all evening," adding: "It hurts." (Thanks, wiki.)
But the soundtrack IS still in my iTunes from when I burned the already twice burned CD in 2000(?). BRB. Me thinks it's sledge hammer time!
#i'm not going to tag this until i listen to at least 15 minutes of the soundtrack#i'm on to track three#the music's not THAT bad but it's not GOOD#magdalena: a musical adventure#OF COURSE it was commissioned by the president of an LA Opera Company in the late 1940s#and i'm sure that's also how i ended up being paid over $400 for being a volunteer musician#at least the heirs or whoever were willing and able to give generously to those willing to mount a production#my conversational spanish isn't great but i can sorta get by#my operatic spanish is apparently non existent#but from what i can understand there is actually not a plot#like it's probably better if you just listen to the emotion and make up your own story#an isolated emerald mine with possible divine visitation and a love triangle is enough for me#my version is basically Romancing The Stone via Opera#it's probably better
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￫ EMBARRASSING MOMENTS DURING SEX !
wriothesley, neuvillette, lyney
￫ wriothesley
given his occupation, wriothesley needs to blow off steam constantly - the minute he’s home from his duties, he’s on you like a feral dog, wasting no time and clasping the handcuffs around your wrists tightly. wriothesley pants heavily above your restrained form, sweat beading at his hairline, lips bitten red, and balls slapping harshly against your bottom with every thrust. while he enjoyed the roughness, he knew when the both of you were nearing your climaxes, you both preferred to be able to hold each other properly.
wriothesley reached over onto the bedside table where he usually held a spare set of keys for the handcuffs, only for his blunt nails to scratch against the oak wood.
“… my love, i’m afraid i’m gonna have to head back to the prison momentarily.”
￫ neuvillette
now neuvillette is a stoic yet gentle lover - his passion runs thickly through his veins and clouds his every thought, even when in the court room. fontaine had reached a peaceful point in time - there were little to no trials and matters had instead been avoided or dropped entirely… perhaps focalors had found a more interesting thing to focus on.
it was rare neuvillette had you within the court rooms walls - the occasion saved for moments in time he needed to relax before an intense hearing, or times he knew the hydro archon was far from the building - yet he had chosen to bend you over the wooden balcony and slowly yet deeply thrust into you from behind with the knowledge the archon was somewhere within the building
“this has to be the most horrific thing the courts walls have ever seen!” focalors yelled dramatically from one of the neighbouring balconies. “i can never view you the same neuvillette!”
￫ lyney
lyney had encountered more embarrassing moments with you during sex than out in public. not only does he have a nack for somehow bringing magic into the bedroom at the worst of times, but he has also been caught with you more times that he could count on both hands.
the magician is a playful lover through and through and lives for the thrill - he’s had you on his cock outside of the comfort of your shared bedroom more times then within - in an alleyway, the bathroom of a restaurant, and even backstage at the opera. of course though, after not being caught in all of those risky places, the moment he has your legs draped over his shoulders in the comfort of his house, lynette chooses to interrupt.
“lyney, freminet and i are heading out for groceries- what do you and y/n want for supper?” lyney can only bury his face into your neck in embarrassment. “anything lynette, please just leave.”
#genshin x reader#genshin imagine#genshin smut#genshin impact x reader#genshin impact imagine#genshin impact smut#wriothesley x reader#wriothesley imagine#wriothesley smut#neuvillette x reader#neuvillette imagine#neuvillette smut#lyney x reader#lyney imagine#lyney smut
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