• they/them

plural system in Seattle, WA (b. 1974)
lots of fictives from lots of media, some horses, some dragons, I dunno. the Pnictogen Wing is poorly mapped.

host: Mx. Kris Dreemurr (they/them)

chief messenger and usual front: Mx. Chara or Χαρά (they/them)

other members:
Mx. Frisk, historian (they/them)
Monophylos Fortikos, unicorn (he/him)
Kel the Purple, smol derg (xe/xem)
Pim the Dragon, Kel's sister (she/her)


JhoiraArtificer
@JhoiraArtificer

given the population of cohost I really expected that the #opera tag would be primarily about the browser with one or two people yelling into the void about the art form. but I was so wrong, it is by far dominated by interesting talk about music. this rules



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in reply to @JhoiraArtificer's post:

Honestly at this point the Opera browser is a brand worn as a skinsuit over an entirely different technology & organization.

Several of the OG Opera folks went off and made a new browser called Vivaldi, and in fact the #vivaldi tag appears to be mostly about the browser and not the composer.

in reply to @pnictogen-wing's post:

I miiiiight be able to answer this question depending what you mean by "good". From a purely musical standpoint: yeah, it's Puccini, it's going to be lush and gorgeous.

However, I've never seen a production (I know I would be a sobbing mess by the end whether it was "earned" or not, so I have avoided it) and, given that, have never really studied the libretto. I will say that Bohème is probably in the top tier of commonly performed operas for a reason. I'm not going to claim everything popular is unproblematic (Madama Butterfly immediately springs to mind) but they are generally beautiful and emotional.

My personal favorite Puccini is La fanciulla del West, a spaghetti western from before the form. I'll go dig up a link to the YouTube I found of a production that looks decent.

EDIT: Here's the YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pDwwt9JOns and here's a link to the libretto in Italian and English (on facing pages) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b5190033&view=1up&seq=1