[Actual reasons to watch “Fidelio”, Exhibit A. – Susann Vent-Wunderlich (Leonore) in Beethoven’s “Fidelio”, Osnabrück 2018.]
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In all honesty, those reasons boil down to:
1) rating sopranos in drag on a Badass Butch Scale, both vocally and scenically (in this case: more on the FemmeFidelio side, but I would definitely not mind her being my flight captain. Also, ponytail.)
2) cheering on Marzelline
[That is certainly not one for the tenor. – Susann Vent-Wunderlich (Leonore), Erika Simons (Marzellina) and Daniel Wagner (Jaquino) in Beethoven’s “Fidelio”, Osnabrück 2018]
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Queer Lorgnette 
also on the issue of White Skirts Wednesday:
Calisto, sister – we totally get it.
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(I mean Madrid has to somehow even out that additional tenor glitch in Idomeneo, never mind how good the individual tenors in question are):
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just say no to tenor breasts :-p
ps: I just imagine you rapping those lyrics up there 😉
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I way thinking more along the lines of protests slogans, but that would work, too. Obviously, Idomeneo needs a good tenor (Croft!!), but not necessarily two, however good or good-looking the individual tenors in question.
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After much sampling my conclusion is that Idamante only sounds good with mezzos and only certain ones at that.
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that would be my very personal conclusion, too.
Of course, too each their own, but if there’s no mezzos around, I have limited patience for bare-chested ads. How about an axe-wielding Elektra in there?
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How about an axe-wielding Elektra in there?
😀
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that wasn’t so hard now, was it.
If I could do it in 5 minutes! (this is Salzburg, I think 2016?)
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oh YEAH
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this picture is the go-to answer to many casting issues…
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and here is where you stash the cisly-casted
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Ah yes, the core question of
Do you need
the actual meat,
or does fake fur
Make the better Sir?
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“this picture is the go-to answer to many casting issues…” –
oh I think it’s the go-to answer for a much broader range of issues than only casting. It would make a very fine autosignature for email replies with no other content.
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Isn’t that what the youngsters call reaction gifs these days? If it would move?
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“Isn’t that what the youngsters call reaction gifs these days? If it would move?”
Just so. And it would move.
Is that what they call them? So staid. Someone will market them as giffytakes or the like.
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just because they are young doesn’t mean they are witty 😉
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did you post something here? i see nothing, neither on computer nor phone…
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Odd – it was Iervolino‘s Calisto photo from FB. Maybe I botched up the link!
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ah, likely.. jeah, nothing shows up. but let me go on her fb 🙂
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it’s the one you mentioned!
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(for me, it shows, but not on all devices)
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Nice title for this post; if only it had been in Dresden…..
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Dresden should stay very quiet on issues of uniforms, nationalism and glorified revolution these days.
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…and on the issue of that Osnabrück Fidelio, I would like to add this review snippet by a Peter Schulz (it seems the we are onto something with the flight captain!):
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