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I am collector, costumer, and craver of things weird and wonderful. I will be sharing Haute Couture, Period Fashion and Costuming, Religious Art, Animals and Taxidermy, Gothic and Steampunk Style, Horses, Art, and other things that interest me.
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So I’ve been on one of my periodic opera kicks lately and I was watching the 1981 Convent Garden production of Offenbach’s Les Contes D’Hoffmann (with production and costume design by Maria Bjornson of Phantom of the Opera fame) and... hey wait is that a Herbert von Krolock doppleganger? Yup, totally tripped the Tanz Der Vampire section of my brain… Schlemil: Philip Gelling Herbert von Krolock: Tim Reichwein

#tanz der vampire#les contes d'hoffmann#musicals#opera#herbert von krolock#costume design#maria bjornson
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So I’ve been on one of my periodic opera kicks lately and I was watching the 1981 Convent Garden production of Offenbach’s Les Contes D’Hoffmann (with production and costume design by Maria Bjornson of Phantom of the Opera fame) and let’s just say that a couple of the Villains’ costumes tripped the Tanz Der Vampire section of my brain...

Dappertutto: Siegmund Nimsgerm Dr. Miracle: Nicolai Ghiuselev Graf von Krolock: Kevin Tarte and Steve Barton (bottom)

#tanz der vampire#les contes d'hoffmann#opera#maria bjornson#costume design
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Heartless sterility, obliteration of all melody, all tonal charm, all music. This revelling in the destruction of all tonal essence, raging satanic fury in the orchestra, this demoniacal, lewd caterwauling, scandal-mongering, gun-toting music, with an orchestral accompaniment slapping you in the face. Hence, the secret fascination that makes it the darling of feeble-minded royalty, of the court monkeys covered with reptilian slime, and of the blasé hysterical female court parasites who need this galvanic stimulation by massive instrumental treatment to throw their pleasure-weary frog-legs into violent convulsion. The diabolical din of this pig-headed man, stuffed with brass and sawdust, inflated, in an insanely destructive self-aggrandizement, by Mephistopheles’ mephitic and most venomous hellish miasma, into Beelzebub’s Court Composer and General Director of Hell’s Music — Wagner!

J.L. Klein, Geschichte des Dramas (1871)

Hell yeah, Wagner!

#richard wagner#wagner#opera#music#quotes
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