Daily Archives: January 29, 2012
Edwaert Collier
Talk Like An Opera Geek: Vocal Tricks And Trills : Deceptive Cadence »
Ever been to a cocktail party and feel totally lost when some know-it-all opera jerk spouts on about “the mezzo-soprano’s ornamentation in the cabaletta lacked a certain bel canto sensibility, and because of the high tessitura, she sounded like little more than a comedia dell’arte soubrette in her secco recitative.”
Fear not. Here, we give you some tools to help you fire back with opera jargon of your own and actually have some idea of what you’re talking about.
Virginia Woolf
As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
Bill Brandt
London, 1934
From The Photography of Bill Brandt
William Shakespeare
You say that you love rain, but you open your umbrella when it rains. You say that you love the sun, but you find a shadow spot when the sun shines. You say that you love the wind, but you close your windows when wind blows. This is why I am afraid, you say that you love me too.
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Claude and Alice Monet, Venice, October 6, 1908
