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some Waltraud Meier gifs I saved

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“James Levine conducted Parsifal there [in Bayreuth], he asked me to come over here, to New York, for an audition, and I auditioned in ‘85… So Plácido, you may be the Patriarch but I am becoming the Matriarch!”

— from Waltraud Meier’s acceptance speech at the Opera News Awards

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Waltraud Meier in rehearsal for Lohengrin with Tom Fox

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VANESSA SCALERA in FILUMENA MARTURANO (2022)

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Samuel Ramey as Mefistofele Mefistofele, Arrigo Boito -  War Memorial Opera House (San Francisco, 1989)

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Christine Goerke and Joyce DiDonato realizing that Goerke just said "I'm 50! Why not start to straddle everything?"

Joyce DiDonato and Christine Goerke in Conversation - 40:11

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Summertime - George Gershwin, Porgy and Bess

- Joyce DiDonato & Michael Schade

BRB, GIFFING THE ABSOLUTE SHIT OUT OF THIS.

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We Kiss in a Shadow - Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II, The King and I

- Joyce DiDonato & Michael Schade

I guess this makes my second new OTP of the day GODDAMMIT.

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Petition for Elvira and Leporello to gallivanter off and leave Giovanni to rot yes.

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Agatha Christie’s Poirot 2x01 “Peril at End House”

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MURDER IN PROVENCE (2022) Season 1, Episode 3

Nancy Carroll as Marine Bonnet and John Light as Marcell Vannier

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MEDEA - (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1970)

Maria Callas in three stills of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s philologic essay (about the contrast between the peasant and the urban civilization and the wastes of the loss of the sacred) from the Euripides’ tragedy. The movie should have been  (according the director’s words): “.. the almost montruous mix of a philosofic tale and a love plot” and it is really very good and stimulating despite I found a little weakness in the too much didactic way in which PPP illustrates the differences between the two types of civilizations (and really the Centaur speaks -symbolically- too much time). But thanks to the magnetic presence of Callas who adopts “body and soul” a character she knew very well (through the lyric opera of Cherubini) the viewer is able to grasp the sense of fatality and horror of the Greek myth.

R.M.

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Martha Argerich and Charles Dutoit.

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she is the cutest <3

just some new content of elina🫶🏻