Oh wait, that’s Clemenza…well, except for the giant knife it *could* be Octavian and the Marschallin (unless this is a headcanon that they do in Ochs and the Feldmarschall and run off in that carriage together…#hereforit).
Photo by Richard Termine via the Met’s Facebook page.
Netflix knows the way to my heart. Sing-along “Carol” anyone? ME.
The 5-song playlist (!!!) is here. Enjoy the lesbianing and the misandry!
Applicable to a variety of current situations, ahem.
I can’t embed it here to honor their rights to it, but check out this beautiful photo from the Royal Opera House of what has to be the end of Act 1.
Here’s a lovely recital of love songs, sung by Erin Morley, the soprano “Sophie” from last spring’s Rosenkavalier that I really really loved. The recital is lovely, plenty of Strauss which she does so beautifully.
I needed this today…
(Feature image: Erin Morley holding the silver rose above, with Elinca Garanca, from last season’s Rosenkavalier at The Metropolitan Opera)
A Marschallin (Kiri Te Kanawa) and an Octavian (Frederica Von Stade) get together to sing Mozart sisters…just rather delightful, the fun they have with each other.
The next suggested video per youtube is this classic, I love the chemistry suspended between them.
One of my favorite little moments in Act 3 of Rosenkavalier is when the Marschallin, in full regal mode, basically says to Ochs, “WE ARE DONE HERE.” Of course it takes him 2 more pages (in my libretto) to get gone, because of course it does, but the Marschallin’s clear, dignified drawing of a boundary always gets me.
“Er dar, Er dar in aller Still’ sich retirieren!
Versteht Er nicht, wenn eine Sach’ ein End’ hat?…
und alles sonst was drum und dran hängt, ist mit dieser Stund’ vorbei…
Ist halt vorbei!”
AKA things I’m not over even though it’s 2018 now.
AKA things I will never be over, if I’m honest.
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