#Operaplot 2010 Orphans
Last Update: These are the stragglers
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A Woolly Hat – Drama. Love addiction. Drama. Petty Jealousy. Drama. Self pity. Drama. Stubbornness. Drama. Drama. Drama. Comes to senses. Death.
AMM Music – looking at the different angles of a commonly used Greek myth simultaneously; He goes via 17 arches; He dies again and again
Busy Needles – Case notes re patient Ms K: can’t form meaningful relationship with mother-in-law; husband has avoidance issues; now suicidal.
Fun With Iago – Heroic aristocratic poet falls victim to a bunch of dirty people who don’t believe in love, just “inalienable rights
Mere Foix- “With my hand I relieve many miseries.” – “That’s what she said.” – “Here’s my kiss!”
Mere Foix – The BF’s away in France! Crazy girl kills hubby, and everyone drops dead in the end
Mere Foix- Cougar with daddy issues + loverboy with too much cabaleta = death (on the chaise longue, of course!)
Pierce Lumpkin – Best in life: Crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you, and hearing the lamentations of the women.
Rciprotti – Greedtown founded. Whores employed. Lumberjacks enjoy. Hurricane nearly destroys. Free-for-all ensued. Man cannot pay – executed
Sam DeWese – My husband is Catholic & it’s weird. Oh wait, I like it. My ex is still alive? Damn. And now I’m in a lion’s den. Awesome
Tweetzart – Realising suicide probably isn’t the way to get the ladies, fundamentalist terrorist sets up dating agency and finds true love
Zomervos – Rape her. Rape another her. Flirt her. Kill him. Kill another him.Marry her. Flirt another her. Kill him!!!! Kill herself.
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On this day..
- The Opera (Houses) Plotted - 2009
- Review: Trio Laurier Shares Spotlight With Sea Asparagus - 2008
- 'The Mind Of A Critic' - 2008
- Quiz #14 - 2008
Yassha on 
Tina on 
Rebecca on 
Henri Drost – What do you mean you don’t want breasts anymore? Fine, than I’ll have 40.049 children. Should take about an hour
Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tiresias
Devon Cestes – A blind king kills his cheating daughter in law to catch her lover. Poisoned lips, forgiveness, everybody dies but the grumpy Re
Montemezzi’s L’amore del tre Re
Devon Cestes – HOLD ON, I’m blind and none of you thought that was pertinent information to tell me! Well, I guess I should have figured it out
Tchaikovsky’s Iolantha
BachTrack…Confesses Gypsy Mum! = IL TROVATORE
Boosey & Hawkes…rebels & snubs stuffy society! Huzzah! = ALBERT HERRING
Devon Cestes…forgiveness, everybody dies but the grumpy Re = AMORE DEI TRE RE (Montemezzi)
Devon Cestes…Well, I guess I should have figured it out = IOLANTA (Tchaikovsky)
Dustefjerten…laundry basket. All a joke in the end = FALSTAFF
Eric Mahlzeit…Price: Diemut-tap(ped ass) = FEUERSNOT
Gaspsiagore…innocent wife’s hanky-Double tragedy = OTELLO
Gerrit Theule…Africans get to be slaves in this one! = AIDA
Henri Drost…Arab doctor. I can see! I can see! = IOLANTA (Tchaikovsky)
Henri Drost…Some violence. Daddy’s angry = DIE WALKUERE
Henri Drost…Should take about an hour = LES MAMELLES DE TIRESIAS
Jose S Piano…Who the hell are you three? NO! = BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE
Jose S Piano…the Matchless has run out = THE BALLAD OF BABY DOE
Jose S Piano…a mirror, a box, a boat. Wish you were here? = POSTCARD FROM MOROCCO
Mere Foix……everyone gets killed (or killed themselves) in the end = TOSCA
Music vs Theater……Focus on positive. Can we get Bernstein? = NIXON IN CHINA (from Kissinger’s perspective)
Music vs Theater…Write 2u l8r. (account deleted) = PORGY AND BESS
Music vs Theater……progress,you belong in a nuthouse too = THE RAKE’S PROGRESS
P Schleuse…just one scene we have today: it’s Lasciatemi morire = LAMENTO D’ARIANNA (Monteverdi)
Ralph Graves…the tables are turned when the army arrives = HUGH THE DROVER
Sandra Mogensen…That’s Amore, And They Called it Poppy Love = L’INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA
Hats and Opera – Camellias R red, camellias R white, now that you’re back dear, I feel quite alrigh….
That should be @HatstandOpera (my company!) and the opera is La Traviata, Verdi
Ah, sorry about that…..must have missed out the T!
P Schleuse – It’s Tristan und Isolde, but with no potion, less dissonance, and less action. And in French. PELLEAS ET MELISANDE (Debussy)
OK All caught up to here. Thanks again everyone. Yous are all like operaplot superstarz and stuff.
Thos Carpenter – Soldier desecrates holy ground, falls in love, is sentenced to death. He must leave her, presumably on British Air, so she dies.
Lakme
Brian Robison’s “Potion switched, pair bewitched, lust white-knuckled, king a cuckold, mortal wound, love-death crooned…but who are Milt & Liza?” is “Tristan und Isolde.” (And, to answer the the #operaplot’s question, Milt & Liza would be Isolde’s “mild und leise” that begins the Liebestod. (Good one, Brian.))
Correction: P Schleuse – It’s Tristan und Isolde, but with no potion, less dissonance, and less action. And in French. could be PELLEAS ET MELISANDE (Debussy) or L’AMOUR DE LOIN (Kaija Saariaho) tricky, those #operaplots
The Bachtrack one is Katya Kabanova
AMM Music – He becomes King – mostly in A minor – founder of monotheistic religion – kingdom in ruins – Where are all the violins?! – Aknaten
Opera San Jose – Wanted: hottie to help re-live memories of youth. Includes clubbing & running away to Riviera; conservatives need not apply.
= La rondine
Where’s Runnicles? – We’re all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars or, more specifically, dreaming of the moon and the 15th century –> LEE HOIBY’S SUMMER AND SMOKE?
Audience Dev Spec – A curmudgeon is he & ghosts of three…= Christmas Carol? (http://www.theamusgrave.com/html/christmas_carol.html)
Christing Cole – Pretty gal disguises herself as someone of substance…= La Rondine
AMM Music – He throws the baby on the fire; more murders to follow. He longs for her; redemption sought. Sometime, Britten walks out – Punch and Judy (Birtwhistle)
P Schleuse – It’s “Mad Men,” with a dash of Island Magic. Sequel to follow. – Trouble in Tahiti (Bernstein)
Alejoplay – You touch my lover … TOSCA
AMM Music – He throws the baby on the fire;… PUNCH & JUDY (Birtwistle. I should get a prize just for knowing this.)
AMM Music – looking at the different angles of a commonly used Greek myth…THE MASK OF ORPHEUS (BIRTWISTLE again)
M Buchanan – Shave the captain… WOZZECK
N Brockman – Boy+girl=lovers… DIE WALKURE
P Schleuse – It’s “Mad Men,” with a dash of Island Magic. Sequel to follow. TROUBLE IN TAHITI
P Schleuse – Emperor dumps wife, kills advisor, marries floozy. Love conquers all? No wonder that final duet has a lament bass! CORONATION OF POPPEA
Where’s Runnicles? – We’re all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars or, more specifically, dreaming of the moon and the 15th century THE ADVENTURES OF MR. BROUCEK
“N Brockman – Boy+girl=lovers… DIE WALKURE”
True dat. (Valkyrie “gets fired” — magic fire, get it? Yeah, OK, only I think that’s funny.) And, as I know you know, on Twitter (and in real life) I’m NBrockmann with two N’s. I paid folding money for that second N! :)
Ok – caught up to here. Thanks everybody!
my (vankan0′s) entries
Boy and girl etc: Tristan & Isolde
Guy wants to win etc: Elisir d’amore (Donizetti)
Regards, Jos
King Ouf I : He, misapprenticed… = THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE
Eighth Blackbird – An ageing, nostalgic Duchess…
ADÈS Powder Her Face
Eighth Blackbird – A big boat. A bloke in a wheelchair…
ADAMS The Death of Klinghoffer
In The Theatre – Swineherd prince falls for jailed goose girl.Expelled from city unrecognized – not chic enough- they die: snowstorm+poisoned loaf.
–> Die Königskinder (Humperdinck)
In The Theatre – Woman with a past loses her heart to a young man. He proposes, she panics and leaves while he collapses in tears.
–> La Rondine (Puccini)
Ooh, another Aussie opera:
Talopine – The crew play baseball…
HADDOCK Madeline Lee
Clearly it’s popular:
John Of Oz – Busty B52 down in desert…
HADDOCK Madeline Lee
Amndw2,,,changed my mind. [Wedding. Curtain.] = IDOMENEO
Arbakr…Wotan retires, Brunnhilde…perspires = SIEGFRIED
Arbakr…stabbed by some punk kid = SIEGFRIED
Beth1170…sing themselves to death, takes hours = TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
Beth1170…enjoy your knife. Oops I’m drowning = WOZZECK
Bryan Imm Lawyer…plan is foiled when challenged to a shirtless duel! = PARTENOPE
Danny Liss…Lenny just wants to be loved = TROUBLE IN TAHITI
Dumbledad…Quick recover: fake fake death then death = TOSCA
Dumbledad…Wait till I’m dying to love me. Operas! = LA TRAVIATA
EG Meier…breaks down the wall on his journey to the East = MARCO POLO (Tan Dun)
Eighth Blackbird…Anti-Semitic? Anti-Palestinian? = THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER (John Adams)
Jennifer Strumm…PaPaPaPaPaPaPa/ Kuss Kuss = DIE ZAUBERFLOETE
Jennifer Strumm…you just HAD to look. Men! *sighs* = ORFEO ED EURIDICE
Jennifer Strumm…And I got burned… #operaplot = DIE WALKUERE
Jennifer Strum…Wifey returns ring. Circle and cycle closed = GOETTERDAEMMERUNG
lattavanti…We must confess/Real cleaner-up was Rimsky = KHOVANSHCHINA
lattavanti…Now he knows who he slept with. Got some water? = ARABELLA
Maura Lafferty…who can wile our way out of sticky situations = IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA ?
Nate Bach…Just a sec. B: OK. I’ll just email you = THE TELEPHONE
Nate Bach…he’s a creep. He runs off with mom = VANESSA (correction from JP: “mom” should read “aunt.”)
Patty Oboe…New lover. She takes her last breath = CARMEN
Prima la Musica…YourSister’sTakenIGuessYou’llDo = ARABELLA
Prima la Musica…And the kids are even creepier = TURN OF THE SCREW ?
Prima la Musica…before Stockholm syndrome does? = DIE ENTFUEHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL
P Schleuse…Gertrude was smoking grass, alas = FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS
R Lowev BVT…Infanticide. Scandal. Prison. Happy ending! = JENUFA
Sam Neuman…but seriously: he’s just not that into you = CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
Vankan0…Stupid no? Inherits fortune, all happy = L’ELISIR D’AMORE
Mere Foix- She prays a lot and gets the hunky warrior. Me? I get to sing the last note of the opera. – Pearl Fishers
Maura Lafferty – As an animal she’s treated/conversations are heated/Here comes Orest/revenge is addressed/She dies when she gets what she needed – Elektra
Maura Lafferty – SWF iso true love. Must be noble, good-looking, have penchant for disguise & friend who can wile our way out of sticky situations – Barber of Seville
Maura Lafferty- Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. The Russians really know how to spoil a good day. – Anna Karenina
Beth1170 – Irish princess harbors a secret lover. Day turns to night, dying to be together, sing themselves to death, takes hours. – Tristan und Isolde
Beth1170 – Wife’s a whore, cheats with drummajor. Better a knife in her belly than my hands on her. OK, enjoy your knife. Oops I’m drowning – Wozzeck
Arbakr – Siegfried fires, Mime conspires, Fafner expires, Wotan retires, Brunnhilde…perspires – Gotterdammerung or general Ring?
Jennifer Strum – Dwarf robs. God mugs. Dragon gets. Hero slays. Wifey keeps. Husband wrests. Killed. Wifey returns ring. Circle and cycle closed.. – Ring
lattavanti – What’s that sound? Gypsies? Gondolas? My girlfriend screaming? No, not that. Oh right, it’s the end of my opera. *dies* – sounds like Il Tabarro
Nate Bach – B: I need to run… can you hang up so I can ask you something? L: (index finger raised) Just a sec. B: OK. I’ll just email you – Menotti’s The Telephone
Sublime Louise – So like Mummy killed Daddy, like totally bummed, but Orrie sorted her out … way cool … I’m so happy I could just like … die! – Elektra
Shevinka – German panthiest seeks dutiful angel for reve, extase, bonheur & complicity in suicide (mine). Singles need not apply.
Werther
@InTheTheatre Swineherd prince falls for jailed goose girl.Expelled from city unrecognized… KONIGSKINDER (Humperdinck)
Amndw2 – King: I didn’t drown! I’ll sacrifice…my son?! NO! Neptune: RELEASE THE KRAKEN! No, wait, changed my mind. [Wedding. Curtain.] – Idomeneo
Beth1170 – Irish princess harbors a secret lover. Day turns to night, dying to be together, sing themselves to death, takes hours. – Tristan and Isolde
Chicken Feet 2003 – Witch son was that? – Il Trovatore
Chicken Feet 2003 – She has a tenor for every day of the week but once a knight is enough – Armide
Irene Vartanoff – A sultan attacks the city/Wants to wed the girl/She’s pretty./She says, no/Dad wants us to go/ Die for the cause/What a pity. – Tamerlano?
Jennifer Strumm – I die twice for you and still you just HAD to look. Men! *sighs* – Orfeo/Orpheo/Orphee
Nicole Brockmann/a> – Diana orders king to sacrifice daughter; her lover tries+fails 2 save her; at last moment goddess relents. What a piece of Gluck! – Iphigenie en Aulide
Prima la Musica – Able seaman and troubled soul departs gossip’s gutters, stumbles into stormy seas while gazing at the stars. – Peter Grimes
Irene Vartanoff – A sultan attacks the city/Wants to wed the girl/She’s pretty./She says, no/Dad wants us to go/ Die for the cause/What a pity.
The Siege of Corinth
lattavanti – Married girl in search of a good time accidentally causes moral collapse of Rome, influx of campy tenor nurses. (L’INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA)
lattavanti – Once was a man called Khovansky/In the last op of Musorgsky/Pete cleans up his mess/We must confess/Real cleaner-up was Rimsky (KHOVANSHCHINA)
lattavanti – Sorry, Bella, Matt and I didn’t believe the girl in pants was actually a girl. Now he knows who he slept with. Got some water? (ARABELLA)
lattavanti – What’s that sound? Gypsies? Gondolas? My girlfriend screaming? No, not that. Oh right, it’s the end of my opera. *dies* (DER FERNE KLANG [Schreker])
Sorry, I like the obscure stuff.
Hey that’s alright. 1000 Bohemes would have got kind of boring. Plus, this way I learn about operas I otherwise would never had heard of.
Hey there…everything by me (arbakr) on here is Siegfried:
Arbakr – Hypeactive teen confuses lack of fear for lack of getting laid.
Arbakr – Siegfried fires, Mime conspires, Fafner expires, Wotan retires, Brunnhilde…perspires
Arbakr – So, I didn’t really do the math when I planned this out. I mean, you’re A LOT younger than me. Tho it is kind of hot…
Arbakr – Tenor shreds voice before having to face off with soprano who only got to the theatre at 10:15. But she’ll get hers.
Arbakr – Years later, Fafner goes for a drink and gets stabbed by some punk kid.
You rock.
Aw….thanks. You’re not so bad yourself.
This one of mine:
Diana orders king to sacrifice daughter; her lover tries+fails 2 save her; at last moment goddess relents. What a piece of Gluck!
… is Iphegenia in Aulis.
Theses were mine…..
Illenatimd – “good guy, good woman, bad woman, takes bad woman, becomes bad guy and kills bad woman” – meant Carmen
Illenatimd – Great country, greater wall, bad music, hired tenor seemed useless but f***** daughter so hard she could walk again” – The first Emperor
Illenatimd – “tell dad I’m coming back home stop all gone wrong stop wife went nuts stop – and you never guess what happened to my ride…..!” was supposed to be Lohengrin ;)
Thanka
Danny Liss – Blowing off his play… – Trouble in Tahiti (Bernstein)
Danny Liss – Cruise to Egypt…. – Death of Klinghoffer (Adams)
Danny Liss – Who was Abraham?…. – The Cave (Reich)
Yes, my “Terry 1 and Terry 2….” is FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS
Wow … didn’t realize I was being so oblique!
Here you go:
Sublime Louise – Celeb cougar is dumped by toy-boy for young starlet. She takes him down in a blaze of glory. Shoulda seen that one coming! …NORMA
Sublime Louise – I love u, I love u not, u love me, u love me not, what a difference a day makes … oh bugger the army’s back, tie any knot … COSI
Sublime Louise – So like Mummy killed Daddy, like totally bummed, but Orrie sorted her out … way cool … I’m so happy I could just like … die! … ELEKTRA
Sublime Louise – Tanner rampages, Venus engages, our hero’s lemma, il Papa’s promlema, returns in tears 2 Liz’s bier, green shoots 2 little 2 late … TANNHAUSER
Sublime Louise – The house of Bly was wont to sigh with misdeeds but no laughter, a new Miss came to no avail and none lived happily ever after … THE TURNING OF THE SCREW
Oops! That should of course be The Turn of the Screw!!
Sam Neuman – Santuzza, baby, I know it hurts
…is indeed Cavalleria Rusticana. That poor woman really needs to get a hobby and move on from the whole Turiddu thing.
Hahahaha…..
My entry should be ‘Katya Kabanova’.
EG Meijer – I love you. I hate you. I kill you. Who … Die Aegyptische Helena
The next two are missing:
EGMEIJER: #operaplot Part I “I told you, do not mess with the horse”. Part II “Then go on with your mission, I quit”.
(Les Troyens)
EGMEIJER: #operaplot Hunchback thinks he has the worst behind him
Kosmaj – M about to kill his infidel wife H, but after z Die Aegyptische Helena
Nicole Brockmann/a> – Diana orders king .. piece of Gluck! Iphigenie en Tauride
Penumbral – Franken-tail of daffy dr misunderstanding … A dog’s heart
Beth1170 – Dumb fool arrives at campground, not a PETA fan. Crazy woman harangues, seduces, then is saved by him. Who’s the fool now? – PARSIFAL
Wende Persons -From Bill: 1st – green mtns – girl weds boy sings girl – Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo
I’m sure I’ve de-orphaned this already, but here goes again:
Irene Vartanoff – A sultan attacks the city/Wants to wed the girl/She’s pretty./She says, no/Dad wants us to go/ Die for the cause/What a pity.
=The Siege of Corinth
LisztNut – “Sue’s a smokin’ babe” is for the opera Il segreto di Susanna (The Secret of Susanna) by Ermano Wolf-Ferrari. -Dale
I had one more entry, currently missing, posted during am hours on 30th EST:
From depths of Rhein to heights of Valhalla a jolly lot of maidens, dwarfs and giants tell about impending end of gods…on Earth [Rheingold]
My orphaned entry “M about to kill his infidel wife H…” is indeed Die Aegyptische Helena as kindly pointed out by EGMEIJER.
Thanks.
OK, this is not by Wagner or Mozart, maybe not even an opera, but it is Pink Floyd’s The Wall (way bettre than Waters’ “serious attempt” at opera Ca ira):
Star with narcotics problem and mummy and daddy isues finds himself on trial. Band and bricks collapse. Famous guitarsolo though.
Hi Miss Mussel,
Just so you know, my name is @jenniferstumm not strumm.
downdowndown into the ring of fire is Siegfried, not Walkure
Home with margarita is Faust.
WMFTweetie – Dr. John sews his wild oats then settles down, but he cannot cure Miss Alma of the doppelganger raging inside her.
ooops… I meant “sows” not “sews.” That would be something entirely different… I don’t know what, but different.
“German panthiest seeks dutiful angel for reve extase bonheur…” is Werther
thanks
All my orphans but one have been correctly claimed. Which is…
@primalamusica — Hey Jude/don’t be afraid etc. is Vivaldi’s “Juditha triumphans”. Although since that’s technically an oratorio, Serov’s “Judith” would do just as well, since it’s the same story.
How funny – my two later orphans are dead famous ;-)
Dumbledad – 3 acts. Key character from Act 1 not seen again. In Act 2 main baddie dies. PLOT FAIL. Quick recover: fake fake death then death. <>
Dumbledad – I cannot help falling for an arrogant youngster. Boy does his dad hate me. OK I’ll leave. Wait till I’m dying to love me. Operas! <>