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Karita Mattila as Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss (Royal Opera House, Junio 2014. Foto Catherine Ashmore)
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1. Thomas Allen as Lescaut Kiri Te Kanawa as Manon in The Royal Opera’s Manon Lescaut, 1993
2. Kiri Te Kanawa as the Marschallin in The Royal Opera’s Der Rosenkavalier, 1984
3. Kiri Te Kanawa as Manon in Manon Lescaut, 1983
4. Kiri Te Kanawa as Manon and Placido Domingo as Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut, 1983
5. Kiri Te Kanawa as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, 1981
6. Stuart Burrows as Alfredo and Kiri Te Kanawa as Violetta in The Royal Opera’s La traviata, 1979
7. Kiri Te Kanawa as Tatyana and Gillian Knight as Olga in The Royal Opera’s Eugene Onegin, 1976
8. Luciano Pavarotti as Rodolfo and Kiri Te Kanawa as Mimi in The Royal Opera’s La bohème, 1976
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CARMEN at Royal Opera House, December 2013. Roberto Alagna, Anita Rachvelishvili
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Them:Ugh I hate opera.
Me: But Hamilton is an opera and I know you like that.
Them:
Me:
Them:Wait what
Them: No I mean operatic singing opera. Not a musical in which the entire production is sung opera.
Me:Oh okay that’s different then. Why?
Them: Because I can’t understand any of it.
Me: Are you under the impression that you’re supposed to understand opera?
Them:Then why do you watch it?
Me: It’s like extreme sports you can vibe to.
Them:…
Them:What?
Them: There’s no way that opera can be that impressive or difficult.
Me:
Them: Holy sh*t
Opera is super physical!
I’ve yet to have the fortune of costuming one, but one thing I learned in school is opera requires lots of special design/construction considerations. You need to accommodate the movement of extremely large, flexible, and powerful chests!
I’ve heard stories about ladies busting the seams of steel boned corsets with the sheer force of their expanding lungs.
Not a great look, ROH. And totally unnecessary.
Iana Salenko - Royal Opera House, London
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Iana Salenko - Royal Opera House, London
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Anges purs, Anges Radieux
I haven’t posted in forever, whoops So yep, this is fanart for the opera Faust. The @royaloperahouse posted one of their productions of it on YouTube and that got me in the mood :,)
I was inspired to draw my version of Christine Daaé performing the leading lady role of Marguerite, with two randos (looking like Raoul and the Phantom, not intentionally I promise) as Faust and Mephistopheles, during the final act of the opera. If you wanna know more, definitely check out the Jewel aria and the final trio represented here, I think they sound pretty awesome but you know, it’s opera so you do you
Enough of my rambling, I hope you enjoy the art!
