FAKE OPERA MEME: Arrested Development, asked by no one but inspired by the fact that Simon Keenlyside and Jason Bateman kind of look a little like each other. Right?
Michael Bluth -> Simon Keenlyside
Lucille Bluth -> Susan Graham
Buster Bluth -> Iestyn Davies
Gob Bluth -> Luca PisaroniI thought it was only appropriate to bring this up again while that Arrested Development SFO thing is rolling around the gob of the internet opera community, who seems to think that it’s the most innovative development of hilarity. Oh, look! Who would think to relate opera with a television series? So fresh! So hip! It’s cool that people are talking about it, I guess, but it all sounds so forced and uncomfortable with undertones of “Yes, now, the young people will come. We googled gifs. Young people love gifs.”
"The price we have to pay for security is beauty. Every increase in security represents a loss of beauty. It’s like the movement of a pair of scales. I am grateful to a good horn player in a good orchestra if he cracks a note. I have the feeling that he has taken a risk, that he did not use the valve, which would have made it impossible to crack the note, although sound thus produced is ugly and unpleasant. Really beautiful sounds only materialize when a note adjoins the one that follows. In America, I am told, someone who has played three cracked notes loses his job. That’s why they use safe instruments. String players use safe fingering, it’s the same with virtually every instrument. But much that is brilliant, magnificent and really crazy occurs when we are on the verge of a catastrophe. And if we dare to go this far, we can experience things that are unbelievably [unheimlich] beautiful."
"I don’t give a shit what the world thinks. I was born a bitch, I was born a painter, I was born fucked. But I was happy in my way. You did not understand what I am. I am love. I am pleasure, I am essence, I am an idiot, I am an alcoholic, I am tenacious. I am; simply I am…You are a shit."
can we talk about the strategic placement of the ‘metropolitan opera’ banner here
Franco Corelli. Bookmark this and show it to anyone who says that sexualized opera is a new phenomenon. Because really.
Wagner birthday concert from Bayreuth with the Festival Orchestra under Christian Thielemann. The soloists are Eva-Maria Westbroek, Johan Botha and Kwangchul Youn.
I wonder if Westbroek will be adding Isolde to her repertoire. Her Liebestod was very nice.
can we talk about the strategic placement of the ‘metropolitan opera’ banner here
iloveitwhenyoucallmebigpapagena:
iloveitwhenyoucallmebigpapagena replied to your video: LIKE JUST WATCH THE LAST TWO MINUTES OF THIS …
I JUAN-NA SEX U UP
DESCRIBE HIS KNEES ALREADY
They were as two shining crème brûlées, trembling on a tartan platter.
Are they better than Corelli’s tho
they have potential but it’ll take a lot to beat Corelli
i mean
iloveitwhenyoucallmebigpapagena:
iloveitwhenyoucallmebigpapagena replied to your video: LIKE JUST WATCH THE LAST TWO MINUTES OF THIS …
I JUAN-NA SEX U UP
DESCRIBE HIS KNEES ALREADY
They were as two shining crème brûlées, trembling on a tartan platter.
