An outstanding night at the opera. Barrie Kosky’s cycle will go down as one of the good ones. Standout performances from all. Stunning. #operasky
#NowPlaying Getting very excited about my trip to Covent Garden for Kosky and Pappano’s third instalment of The Ring today. This cycle is so much better than the last one at the ROH. #operasky
#OTD #TDI #March28, 1881: #DOTD: #RIP #ModestMussorgsky. #Mussorgsky #Composers #TheFive #Romantics #Operas #ClassicalMusic #OperaSky #ClassicalSky #MusicSky
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#OTD #TDI #March28, 1881: #DOTD: #RIP #ModestMussorgsky. #Mussorgsky #Composers #TheFive #Romantics #Operas #ClassicalMusic #OperaSky #ClassicalSky #MusicSky
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#OTD #TDI #March28, 1881: #DOTD: #RIP #ModestMussorgsky. #Mussorgsky #Composers #TheFive #Romantics #Operas #ClassicalMusic #OperaSky #ClassicalSky #MusicSky
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Nearly everyone in the arts had an opinion about Timothée Chalamet vs. Opera and Ballet.
But did the flood of outrage and op eds have an impact on what matters most: ticket sales?
Has there been a...(dramatic pause)..."Chalamet Effect"?
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#operasky #balletsky
#OTD #TDI #March21, 1839: #BOTD: #HBD #ModestMussorgsky! #Mussorgsky #Composers #TheFive #Romantics #Operas #ClassicalMusic #OperaSky #ClassicalSky #MusicSky
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#OTD #TDI #March21, 1839: #BOTD: #HBD #ModestMussorgsky! #Mussorgsky #Composers #TheFive #Romantics #Operas #ClassicalMusic #OperaSky #ClassicalSky #MusicSky
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#OTD #TDIH #March19, 1859: #Premieres: #Faust, an #opera in 5 acts by #CharlesGounod to a French libretto by #JulesBarbier & #MichelCarre from Carre's play #FaustEtMarguerite, in turn loosely based on #Faust PartOne by #JohannWolfgangVonGoethe. #MusicSky #OperaSky
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#OTD #TDIH #March19, 1859: #Premieres: #Faust, an #opera in 5 acts by #CharlesGounod to a French libretto by #JulesBarbier & #MichelCarre from Carre's play #FaustEtMarguerite, in turn loosely based on #FaustPartOne by #JohannWolfgangVonGoethe. #OperaSky #ClassicalSky #MusicSky
#OTD #TDIH #March19, 1859: The #opera #Faust #premieres; Act II's #music is the #leitmotif of the #MontyPythonBicyclingTour episode. #MontyPython #MusicSky #OperaSky #ClassicalSky #MusicSky #PythonSky #ComedySky
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#OTD #TDIH #March19, 1859: The #opera #Faust #premieres; Act II's #music is the #leitmotif of the #MontyPythonBicyclingTour episode. #MontyPython #MusicSky #OperaSky #ClassicalSky #MusicSky
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A Diatribe Against Exploring the Dark Psychological Aspects of Comic Opera, "Marriage of Figaro" in Particular. In this essay I will... #opera #operasky
Timothée Chalamet told Matthew McConaughey he doesn't want to work in ballet or opera because "no one cares about this anymore."
His Mother did ballet and he completely shit on her profession.
#balletsky #operasky #ballet #opera #TimothéeChalamet #boyisstupid
#NowSpinning: Great Scenes from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
Sung by Leontyne Price and William Warfield
Conducted by McHenry Boatwright and Skitch Henderson.
This is OPERA GOLD. The epitome of BLACK OPERA. #PorgyandBess #VinylEnthusiast #MusicSky #VinylSky #OperaSky #BlackMusicSky
Viva Korngold!
#Korngold #SilentSerenade #MannesOpera #OperaSky #MusicSky #CrisFrisco
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Verdi, Aida (EMI, 1974)
Riccardo Muti conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden - Caballé • Domingo • Cossotto • Cappuccilli • Ghiaurov
No elephants were harmed in the making of this recording 🐘
#OperaSky
#OTD #TDICH #March11, 1851: #Rigoletto by #GiuseppeVerdi #premieres in #Venice. #Opera #ClassicalMusic #Verdi #OperaSky #ClassicalSky #MusicSky
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#OTD #TDICH #March11, 1851: #Rigoletto by #GiuseppeVerdi #premieres in #Venice. #Opera #ClassicalMusic #Verdi #OperaSky #ClassicalSky #MusicSky
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Verdi, Don Carlos
(Claudio Abbado & La Scala for Deutsche Grammophon, 1985)
Abbado restores Verdi’s five-act French conception for this.
Grand opera just sounds better en français 😉
#OperaSky
The Queen of the Night from Ingmar Bergman’s TROLLFLÖJTEN (THE MAGIC FLUTE) in extreme close-up.
If you don't want to leave the comforts of your own home, and want to dip your toe in via film, one of the best options is Ingmar Bergman’s TROLLFLÖJTEN (THE MAGIC FLUTE), available streaming on the Criterion Channel. #OperaSky
First of all, you can’t really go wrong with any of the so-called warhorses. I give fun summaries of the plots of the ten most performed operas in the first two posts of my “Opera Plots in 101 Words or Less” series (and, no, that should not be fewer). #OperaSky
Art and Culture | Timucua Opera Festival runs through March 22
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#OrlandoShine #OrlandoSky #FlordaSky #OperaSky
Dylan shouting out Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht is cool as fuck (I sing a lot of Kurt Weill, including Pirate Jenny, accompanying myself on cello).
Would love to see Timmy and Pirate Jenny in a cagefight, actually. He'd be dragged out in a trashbag.
#KurtWeill #Musicsky #Operasky
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Just finished Opera Wars by @caitlinvincent.bsky.social
If you're interested in opera but suspect the official story is a bit too tidy, definitely give it a read. Not nostalgia, not doom-scrolling, just a lucid inside account of how the art form and industry really works #BookSky #OperaSky
grid of four opera posters, arranged side by side : only the first is specific to the Tulsa Opera company, for their 2022 production of "L'Italiana in Algeri" (couldn't find company-specific posters for the others)
As to operas, my #last4attended in person, @TulsaOpera (all from the 19th century):
Rossini, Puccini, Offenbach, Mascagni
1. opera buffa 2. opera seria 3. opéra fantastique 4. verismo
#belcanto #onstage
#OperaSky
#TheatreSky
#ClassicalMusic
#HighBrow
#NowPlaying
#MusicHistory
#musicology
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#NowPlaying Puccini, La bohème
Mirella Freni (Mimì) & Nicolai Gedda
🎼 Recorded at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in 1962–63, conducted by Thomas Schippers
boy meets girl, they fall in love, they quarrel, girl leaves boy, girl gets sick, they make up, girl dies - you know the drill #OperaSky
Prima Donna, Mirella Freni was #botd in Modena, Italy. She and Pavarotti had the same wet nurse, they grew up together and performed together on the world's greatest opera stages. Freni passed away in 2020.
#OperaSky
#CinemaSky
#OperaSky
#Aria1987
This is the most beautiful short 🎞️ I’ve ever seen.The 🎞️is quite marvelous.
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