#WHAT SHOULD WE CALL OPERA

Mon coeur s’ ouvre a ta voix

And everyone’s all…

When they finally get to the ball scene in Ballo

i just want to stand up and be like:

Happy Birthday Mozart!

Wolfie, you always make us party like it’s the 18th century :)

Rehearsing the brindisi

expectation:

reality:

What Dmitri Hvorostovsky does when opera fans diss his crossover recordings

thanks to @williamkenlon!

When I listen to a Philip Glass opera

When the Commendatore enters

everyone in the audience goes:

When I walk into the vocal score section of the music library

The court entertainment in a Baroque opera

at the met:

at the wiener staatsoper:

at whatever production i’m in:

 

When the production employs pyrotechnics

i freak out like: