The premiere of Fidelio was largely a victim of timing. Even before the premiere, the development of the opera was rocky. The commissioner/librettist was Emanuel Schikaneder (of Magic Flute fame) and, as you might expect from the librettist of The Magic Flute, Beethoven didn’t like his libretto very much, saying that it could have been created by Viennese apple women. When financial problems forced Schikaneder to close his theater, Beethoven switched librettists.
Just a week before the premiere of the opera, Napoleon’s forces occupied Vienna, and so the only people who showed up to the premiere were Beethoven’s friends and some of the occupying French soldiers. An opera about freedom and love triumphing over political oppression didn’t go over so well with French occupiers, especially since the libretto was in German. The opera got pulled after only two performances.
Beethoven did, however, live to see the opera’s great success after he rewrote it seven years later. The opera even later inspired Wagner to become a composer!
Video link: https://my.mail.ru/video/embed/7148156706873148362
Libretto link: https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2217/Beethoven_1422_Bk.pdf
This used to be up on Youtube and I had downloaded it from Youtube back then, but has since been taken down and now the only English subs currently on Youtube are at 360p, and I wanted people to still be able to watch it with English subtitles in HD. The video is from the official DVD/BluRay release. The footage is from the DVD/BluRay release but I don't know if the subtitles are official or fanmade. You can both stream and download it from here:
https://archive.org/details/mozart-2015-vienna-proshot-kuipers-seibert-borchert-act-1-eng-subs
Cast list:
Wolfgang A. Mozart: Oedo Kuipers
Leopold Mozart: Thomas Borchert
Hieronymus Colloredo: Mark Seibert
Constanze Weber: Franziska Schuster
Nannerl Mozart: Barbara Obermeier
Cäcilia Weber: Brigitte Oelke
Baronin von Waldstätten: Ana Milva Gomes
Emanuel Schikaneder: Johannes Glück
Graf Arco: Jon Geoffrey Goldsworthy
Fridolin Weber: Stefan Poslovski
More info on the musical:
https://castalbums.org/shows/Mozart/1246/
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
That probably means they'll be showcasing music composed by women! Right? ... Oh wait I forgot, this is the Met we're talking about. Well, I'm sure they picked 7 feminist operas for women's history month week! Let's take a look!
Monday: Don Pasquale
- Creators: 0% women, 100% men. gaetano donizetti (composer), giovanni ruffini (librettist), based on an opera by stefano pavesi (composer) and angelo anelli (librettist).
- Roles: 2 bass, 1 baritone, 1 tenor, 1 soprano (20% women)
- This performance was conducted and directed by: 0% women, 100% men (Nicola Rescigno and John Dexter)
- Synopsis: A man uses his girlfriend’s ability to act like a spoiled shrew to trick his uncle into giving him money.
- Relevance to women’s history: uhhhh it has A Woman in it. It uses stereotypes about women as a joke on a rich old man which is... vaguely anti-patriarchy I guess.
Tuesday: falstaff
- Creators: 0% women, 100% men. giuseppe verdi (composer), arrigo boito (librettist), based on a play by william shakespeare.
- Roles: 2 bass, 1 baritone, 3 tenor, 1 alto, 1 mezzo, 2 soprano (40% women)
- This performance was conducted and directed by: 0% women, 100% men (James Levine and Franco Zeffirelli)
- Synopsis: a man who takes advantage of people messes with the wrong women and they pull a prank on him.
- Relevance to women’s history: a group of women conspiring against a man is a sexist trope but this is opera so it’s as feminist as it gets I guess. It’s vaguely relevant to feminist theory in that he’s privileged in money, gender, and class, and openly uses those privileges to take advantage of people.
Wednesday: die walkure
- Creators: 0% women, 100% men. Richard wagner (composer and librettist). Based on anonymously penned norse sagas, soooo maybe they were written by women?
- Roles: 1 tenor, 5 soprano, 2 bass, 5 mezzo, 1 alto (79% women)
- This performance was conducted and directed by: 0% women, 100% men (James Levine and Otto Schenk)
- Synopsis: A man rescues his sister from a forced marriage, by marrying her. A goddess forces her husband to kill his son. A woman disobeys her father and is punished by being stripped of her immortality and left to wait on a mountain for a man to save her.
- Relevance to women’s history: I don’t even want to touch this one. This is a world with a lot of women being forced into marriage, but that’s always presented as a bad thing; however, it’s always men doing the rescuing. The Fricka/Wotan
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
You take away their little brooms
Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
There hasn't been a post all year!
It was about a weak back.
It’s pronounced “Noel.”
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Nothing, it just waved
Him: I can explain everything!
(It's his best joke yet I think)
Bob
So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."
Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.
Just to clarify, 12345678
Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...
Notices there's only 2;
Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."
I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.
