Rambling Readers

emma

the end of this
do read
the short story by John Luther Long which David #Belasco adapted as a play which #Puccini wrote his #opera from

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Madame_Butterfly

#ReadingOpera
#LetTheSopranoLive

✒️ I wrote him a letter. He came and said that if wife and children were his destiny, he would not want anyone else to be his bride but me, would love me. And that he would make me miserable. I understand. He loves me. We can’t be. My heart hurts.

https://www.staatstheater-darmstadt.de/veranstaltungen/eugen-onegin.1149/

#TanyaBlog #Onegin #Darmstadt #opera

A dark stage with black walls and a dark gray pattern resembling coarse fabric. Red-haired girl Tatyana in black and white plaid shirt and black trousers sits with her back to a black table, her arm resting on the back of her black chair, her head resting on her hand, grieving. Behind the table Eugene Onegin, a blond man with a dark hairline in a green jacket and blue jeans leans towards her and gestures compassionately. Soprano Megan Marie Hart and baritone David Pichlmaier in Isabel Ostermann’s 2023 staging of Tchaikovsky’s opera Евгений Онегин at the Staatstheater Darmstadt. Photo © Nils Heck / Staatstheater Darmstadt

Tatjana Larina

✒️My best friend Volodya is in love with my little sister Olya. They have been in my life since forever, and I want them to be happy so badly. They will get married. I’m so happy for them! She will be Olga Lenskaya! I can’t wait!

I’ve been sitting at the window, staring, thinking… maybe his friend Eugene will be his best man?

I have to see him again.

https://www.staatstheater-darmstadt.de/veranstaltungen/eugen-onegin.1149/

(That’s Onegin in the photo!)

#opera #Darmstadt #Hessen #Onegin #Tchaikovsky

Man with long blond hair with dark roots tied into a bun, wearing blue jeans, green jacket and brown leather boots. He is pacing, reading a letter, in a dark gray room with a greatly enlarged pattern of coarse fabric on the walls and floor. David Pichlmaier as Eugene Onegin in Tchaikovsky’s opera Евгений Онегин in Isabel Ostermann’s staging at the Staatstheater Darmstadt in 2023. Photo © Nils Heck/Staatstheater Darmstadt

Tatjana Larina

👓 Hi guys, it’s Tatjana Larina! ✒️
I just met my sister’s boyfriend’s best friend!
He’s a real dandy from St Petersburg, so worldly!🎩
Tall, dark, brooding, he’s like totally the perfect man …
His name is Yevgény. Yevgény Onégin. If he gets married, his wife would be Onegina … what a beautiful name …

You HAVE to meet him! Like, yesterday. Seriously. You know what, come to the Staatstheater Darmstadt, Saturday after next! We will all be there!

https://www.staatstheater-darmstadt.de/veranstaltungen/eugen-onegin.1149/#event-7711

#Darmstadt #opera #Onegin

Red-haired nerd Tatyana Larina with bangs, wearing glasses and a black and white plaid shirt, chin propped on hand. (Megan Marie Hart in costume, wig and makeup for Eugene Onegin at Staatstheater Darmstadt. Costume: Julia Burkhardt; Photo: Megan Marie Hart, CC BY-SA 4.0)

emma commented on Manon Lescaut by Antoine-François Prévost

Antoine-François Prévost: Manon Lescaut (EBook, Project Gutenberg)

(posted this to mastodon at the time) am reading the novel of Manon Lescaut, mostly because Dumas' heroine who became Verdi's Violetta owned a copy and I wanted to understand the references in Dumas' #LaDameAuxCamillas better; but also in hopes I might learn to appreciate Massanet and Puccini's Manon operas. Instead, wherein Massanet's upsets me because the young man seems noble and good and his life is ruined by this love, I'm now fed up with his self-involvement. This was not the plan. #opera #ReadingOpera

PS La Dame Aux Camillas is brilliant. Read that instead. Ebook for free on Project Gutenberg. Search for Dumas.