a mutual on mastodon challenged me to sing Candy Candido's version of One Meatball (www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaXk...) Here it is, transposed up 5 semitones, but otherwise exactly as Candido performed it

signed distance fences

i post lots of videos of myself singing opera badly on tiktok. this one earned me a derisive comment from kallen esperian, one of the greatest operatic sopranos of all time. far from being discouraged im incredibly tickled that my bad singing is good enough to earn her sneer

insert obligatory tangent pun here

opera

i made an English language adaptation of this duet from the obscure opera Ricciardo e Zoraide by Rossini. You can't tell me fans of musicals wouldn't love opera like this if it was in English and wasn't treated like some super highbrow activity

after all why not? why shouldnt i sing as all the characters in a pirate opera?

see i can do not-opera too!

i recorded this last summer but i think its neat so im gonna make you look at it anyway

in dogpit discord people who know how to music were explaining this feels weirdly modern because the mode it uses for the good guy characters near the end was traditionally only used for sinister stuff; only in modern times has it seen regular use in other situations (like the simpsons theme lol)

still opera-ing

marriage of figaro is anime, confirmed

please enjoy this song about getting punched in the face

every modern comedy with a "totally innocent situation that looks sexually incriminating when the worst person walks in at the worst time" scene owes a debt to The Marriage of Figaro (1786)

also im p sure ive heard this jaunty little tune repurposed as happy background music more than once

pov: u are topping figaro