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 (DIR) Post #B66O5a6dnkYYU00r1k by Violinknitter@wandering.shop
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       I feel like making fun of famous opera arias tonight. Not the music, that’s still gorgeous. But the lyrics/storyAnd I can almost 100% guarantee you’ve heard these, even if you don’t do opera. They’re practically inescapable in modern Western cultureFirst up: O Mio Babbino Caro, by Puccini(1/?)
       
 (DIR) Post #B66O5eVxPZBS9ft82i by Violinknitter@wandering.shop
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       (2/?) This is LITERALLY “Veruca Salt, but make it opera.”“Oh Daddy you HAVE to let me go with my boyfriend to get a ring 🥺🥺🥺 and if you don’t I will jump off this bridge 😡😡😡”It’s gorgeous, it’s short, and it’s a young woman 10 seconds away from throwing a full-on toddler tantrumhttps://youtu.be/A2pc8Tm7sS0
       
 (DIR) Post #B66O5eWJOFT2Am3Pay by Violinknitter@wandering.shop
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       Next, Nessun Dorma. This is “Handsome rich guy will NOT take no for an answer, and he’s about to make it the WHOLE TOWN’s problem!”Is it gorgeous? Absolutely. Do I want to skewer Calaf with his own chopsticks? Yes. https://youtu.be/cWc7vYjgnTs(4/?)
       
 (DIR) Post #B66O5ftkGbo2Rk1dlA by Violinknitter@wandering.shop
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       What makes it even funnier is that the composer Puccini wasn’t planning to have ANY big arias (solo show-stopper songs) in the opera. The story is a big cast comedy and no one singer was supposed to have a massive solo feature. But the soprano nagged and nagged for an aria, so Puccini finally wrote her one where she got to nag and nag while singing (3/?)
       
 (DIR) Post #B66O5g5RZ7AD21Uyzg by Violinknitter@wandering.shop
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       Look, you come in to a town where the princess has made such a big deal about NOT wanting to marry a guy that several guys have been beheaded for not succeeding to win her handYou see ONE GLIMPSE of the Princess, FROM A DISTANCE, and decide you absolutely must have her, even though she has made her wishes clear TO THE ENTIRE COUNTRYTell me that’s not toxic masculinity (5/?)
       
 (DIR) Post #B66O5hKMx6hGsbUPtg by Violinknitter@wandering.shop
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       Dang it, I always get Italian double consonants wrong. Puccini, not Pucinni