#WHAT SHOULD WE CALL OPERA

May 2013

4 posts

when Montserrat Caballe sings dove sono

(check it out)

when i try to:

May 21, 20139 notes

#caballe

Listening to Laurie's song around graduation

oh boy.

May 17, 201313 notes

Mad scenes

May 6, 201336 notes

But Master Wagner, people won't be able see each other if we plunge the house into darkness

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May 1, 201364 notes

April 2013

3 posts

Opera singers + Sesame Street =

me being like

Most recently, Isabel Leonard…

as well as Marilyn Horne, Denyce Graves, Samuel Ramey, and others! Beverly Sills did many many segments with The Muppet Show, too.

Reblog with others that I overlooked!

Apr 23, 201336 notes

The end of La Boheme

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Apr 23, 201347 notes

Salome

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How Herod sees her:

                                     

How she sees Herod:

                              

How everybody else saw Strauss after the premiere:

                                  

Apr 23, 201368 notes

March 2013

17 posts

Wagner's dream is streaming for free

Though April 6th on the Met website, here. It’s about the making of the Robert LePage production of the Ring cycle. Enjoy!

Mar 29, 20138 notes

Oh, I love opera! Andrew Lloyd Webber is my favorite composer!

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Mar 28, 2013190 notes

When I listen to the presentation of the rose

(make sure you’re sitting down)

Mar 28, 201331 notes

Poor Alberich

Mar 28, 20136 notes

If Cavalleria Rusticana had a happy ending

 

NOOOOOOOOO FIGHTING!

Mar 28, 20135 notes

Il Matrimonio Segreto: Elisetta is definitely like

Mar 28, 20134 notes

THROWBACK THURSDAY: Pamina's subtext

I really feel that this post never got enough love and attention…

Mar 28, 201320 notes

If La Wally had a happy ending

Mar 22, 201316 notes

Ping Pang and Pong

are often staged like

Mar 20, 201312 notes

The Rhine maidens toy with Alberich like

Mar 20, 201320 notes

When disguised Almaviva has to tutor Rosina in singing

he’s like

Mar 11, 201361 notes

When Wagner plots sound suspiciously like Lord of the Rings

all the nerds are like

Mar 11, 201334 notes

Peter Sellars brings you Don Giovanni

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Shirley Apthorp of the Financial Times: “It’s penis week in Berlin opera…!”

Mar 10, 201312 notes