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26d

Walter Scott, Opera, & the Italian Journey

“What was it about Scott’s poems and novels that attracted composers all over Europe—and inspired more than seventy operas? […] We have four on Rob Roy, four on The Heart of Midlothian, eight on The Bride of Lammermoor, and no less than eleven each on Ivanhoe and Kenilworth.”

📷 “Lucia di Lammermoor”, Metropolitan Opera 2011

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2011/05/scott-opera-and-the-italian-journey/

#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #19thcentury #Victorian #opera #classicalmusic

Natalie Dessay as Lucia di Lammermoor for the Metropolitan Opera in 2011. The photo shows a young woman in a white wedding dress. She holds one hand to her cheek and looks upwards and away, with a lost, distracted expression. She has long, dark hair. Her raised hand, and the entire front of her white dress, is splashed with red blood. Behind her, a group of men and women in what appear to be late-19th-century formal clothes are seen, out of focus, standing on a curving stair.

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19d

CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA / PAGLIACCI

🗓️ August 29
🕢 19:30
📍 Staatstheater Darmstadt

Turridu/Canio:Matthew Vickers
Santuzza: Réka Kristòf
Nedda: Megan Marie Hart
Lucia: Katrin Gerstenberger
Alfio/Tonio: Rafał Pawnuk
Lola: Lena Sutor-Wernich
Beppe: Rafael Helbig-Kostka
Silvio: Benjamin Russell

Staatsorchester Darmstadt
Conductor: Alessandro Palumbo

Staging & Set: Karsten Wiegand
Costume: Judith Adam

ℹ️ https://www.staatstheater-darmstadt.de/veranstaltungen/cavalleria-rusticana-pagliacci.2257/

#opera #Darmstadt #Hessen #CavPag #Mascagni #Leoncavallo #Pagliacci

Teaser photo for the double opera bill Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni and Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo. A woman with long, flowing dark hair wearing a romantic, off-the-shoulder white ruffled blouse and a pink embroidered dress is leaning against the chest of a dark-haired, bearded man in a white ruffled shirt and a red vest embroidered with a paisley pattern, in front of lush greenery with red and pink flowers. Soprano Megan Marie Hart and tenor Matthew Vickers in costume, hair, and makeup as Nedda and Canio for Karsten Wiegand’s production of Ruggero Leoncavallo’s opera Pagliacci at the Staatstheater Darmstadt in the 2026/2027 season. Photo: © Lilian Backes

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15d

A Day With Megan

Join me behind the scenes of our upcoming «Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci» double bill!

🔸🔷🔶🔹PAGLIACCI🔸🔷🔶🔹
Live on stage, starting Saturday!

ℹ️ https://www.staatstheater-darmstadt.de/veranstaltungen/cavalleria-rusticana-pagliacci.2257/

#opera #Darmstadt #Hessen #Pagliacci #Leoncavallo #CavPag #Suma #RafałPawnuk #RafaelHelbigKostka #MatthewVickers #GiacomoMarignani #AlessandroPalumbo #BenjaminRussell #StaatstheaterDarmstadt #operasinger #music #catContent #catsOfMastodon #catstodon

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158d

I fear I'm not nice enough to swear to h*ck, but I kind of wish I was that has to count for something 😇😂

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@worldbuilding @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

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#Low #Urban #High #Epic #Science #Opera #Hard #Soft #CottageCore #SolarPunk #Comedic
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Post by RED

| swear to h*ck, if I have to explain the difference between Science Fiction and Fantasy again, I will literally be so glad to help because learning is awesome and those two genres are my favorite.

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203d

It's almost like publishers don't know the Spice of Life when they see it 😜😂

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@worldbuilding @humor @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#Dune
#SpeculativeFiction #FantasyBooks
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Two panel meme of a person being uplifted by an angel.
Panel one: Frank Herbert getting rejected by every credible publisher.
Panel two: A company that specializes in car repair manuals thinking his story about giant worms and space drugs is kinda neat.

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10d

I think this is one reason I like writing fantasy, whatever weirdness I come up with it's always correct 🤔😁

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Post by Victoria Aveyard
all writers should have doctor friends

Writer: Can you get internal bleeding, like coughing up blood, from broken ribs and blunt force trauma to the abdomem
Doctor: Yes
Writer: Excellent

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5d

Short video from yesterday’s ANDREA CHÉNIER Sitzprobe!

With Maestro Daniel Cohen conducting the Staatsorchester Darmstadt, Aris Argiris as Carlo Gérard, Matthew Vickers as Andrea Chénier, and myself as Maddalena di Coigny, passing herself off as Idia Legray. (It’s a long story … come to the show and find out more!)

📍 Staatstheater Darmstadt
🗓️ October 3
🕢 19:30
ℹ️ https://www.staatstheater-darmstadt.de/veranstaltungen/andrea-chenier.2253/

#opera #Darmstadt #Hessen #AndreaChénier #Giordano #music #video #backstage #operaSinger

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