February 2012
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It's Not Over Till The Fat Lady Gives You Syphilis
historical-nonfiction:
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) wrote one of opera’s most famous insanity scenes in Lucia di Lammermoor (1835), based on Sir Walter Scott’s novel The Bride of Lammermoor. He himself later went mad due to syphilis and spent the last years of his life in an insane asylum. And I guess that’s what they call ironic.
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weareallstories:
Stop what you’re doing, halt the press, stand perfectly still:
there is an lj comm called ‘operaslash’
slash fanfic…of operas
what
WHEREEEEE I NEED IT NOW
never mind i found it and it has a picture of carlo and rodrigooooooo oh my godddd
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“I’m all for minority/women’s/gay rights, but—”
– Your cue to stop talking (via jpegartifacts)
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Reblog if you'll answer anything that gets sent to...
drpanties:
please!! >:)
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operateen replied to your photo: The Met has released this photo which contains…
Where did this come from?!? How does everybody know so much?! What are your sources?
Let me introduce you to the wondrous world of opera gossip blogs:
http://operachic.typepad.com/opera_chic/
http://salazarfamilycircle.blogspot.com/
http://intermezzo.typepad.com/intermezzo/
http://operagasm.com/
and of...
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The last GIF in your folder with words are your...
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… im okay with this…
apparently I’m...
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beneboo asked: Do you have any recommendations for opera recordings or solo cds? My iTunes is a little lacking in the opera department...
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Watchcallasassoluta:
Jules Massenet’s Manon: ”Adieu, notre petite table” (Recorded: May 2nd, 1965, Paris, ORTF Studios)
Under the direction of Georges Prêtre.
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I don't give a fach: More Eurotrash Please! →
idontgiveafach:
Opera Lover to Peter Gelb: More Eurotrash Please!
As the Metropolitan Opera totters into the final act of its increasingly dreary season, one has to wonder what happened to all that daring theatricality we were promised. The Met seems to have fallen into a formula of staging timid,…
Mom: What's wrong?
My mind: I used to do so well in school but I'm not anymore.
My mind: The people I call friends, aren't my actual friends.
My mind: I'm constantly feeling alone.
My mind: I'm starting to look at myself different.
My mind: Nothing feels the same anymore.
My mind: I feel like I'm going to fail at anything I try to do.
My mind: I haven't been eating that much and I'm hungry all the time.
My mind: I feel like no one cares about me.
My mind: I just wanna sleep all day and never wake up.
Me: Oh nothing I'm fine.
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Anonymous asked: YOU NEED MORE SHERLOCK IN YOUR...
raphmike:
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