Notices by Megan Marie Hart (meganmariehart@mastodon.social)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@meganmariehart/115791231129296353

10 minutes till Aida!

#opera #Aida #Verdi #Darmstadt #operaSinger

@Gargron Don’t know if this will help, but you can try to just post a selfie and put "CC-By-Sa 4.0" in the Alt. I did that on some photos, and they got added to commons.wikimedia. (But only the selfies, the ones that my husband took are not there, even tough they are also have the CC-By-Sa thing.)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@meganmariehart/115745530519124764

Sold out again! That’s five sold out Aida performances out of the six we’ve done so far, and the one that wasn’t completely sold out only had a handfull of seats left.
Noa Naamat’s staging of Aida is extraordinarily successful, and I am grateful to be a part of it!

#opera #Aida #Verdi #NoaNaamat #Darmstadt #operaSinger

HÄNSEL UND GRETEL

🗓️ Dec. 8
🕕 18:00
📍 Staatstheater Darmstadt
❕ Reserved for Merck

Gretel: Jana Baumeister
Hänsel: Maria Hegele
Vater: Johannes Martin Kränzle
Mutter: Solger Isalv
Hexe: Megan Marie Hart
Sandmännchen/Taumännchen: Aki Hashimoto

Staatsorchester Darmstadt
Conductor: Daniel Cohen
Director: Nicola Raab
Stage & Video design: Danila Travin
Costumes: Lisa Moro
Dramaturg: Stefan Czura

https://www.staatstheater-darmstadt.de/veranstaltungen/haensel-gretel.2034

#opera #HänselUndGretel #Humperdinck #Darmstadt #Hessen #Merck #operaSinger

DON GIOVANNI

🗓️ September 6
🕢 19:30
📍 Staatstheater Darmstadt

Don Giovanni: Julian Orlishausen
Commendatore: Zelotes Edmund Toliver
Donna Anna: Megan Marie Hart
Don Ottavio: Christopher Willoughby
Donna Elvira: Ofeliya Pogosyan
Leporello: Georg Festl
Masetto: Zaza Gagua
Zerlina: Jana Baumeister

Staatsorchester Darmstadt
Conductor: Robert Houssart
Staging: Karsten Wiegand

📽️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAR4q19b6-Q
ℹ️ https://www.staatstheater-darmstadt.de/veranstaltungen/don-giovanni.2028

#opera #DonGiovanni #Mozart #Darmstadt #Hessen #operaSinger

🐣 Happy Easter!

Remember: When Jesus came back, he appeared to the Magdalene as a gardener, so go out and plant something!

🎨 Noli Me Tangere
— C. Lorrain
🎶 I know that my Redeemer liveth
— G.F. Händel

Verena Anschütz, violin
Megan Marie Hart, soprano
Judith Hasmann, cello
Ying-Chieh Li, violin
George-Bogdan Lita, bass
Mathias Mönius, harpsichord
Ute Weller, violin
Wojciech Wieczorek, violin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6TIykVi2GU

#Easter #Ostern #baroque #Händel #Messiah #resurrection
#resurrectionsunday

@jacklaridian
Thank you! I’m happy you liked it!
If you’re interested, have a listen to „Letters to Fred“, it‘s a song cycle we premiered last month about my friend Joanne Herzberg’s Familie, who got murdered by the Nazis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyvxOatnH04
(Not much to see in the video, it’s just me singing, but it has subtitles.)

@jacklaridian
That’s the point: back then, no one would have thought to applaud them for choosing Nazis as villains because it was so ridiculously obvious that they are evil. Now, decades later, millions of people still watch these movies, and who knows how many kids have learned about fascism through them. Little things like this are important to preserve our collective memory.

Steven Spielberg is not getting enough credit for having the hero fight literal Nazis in his light entertainment adventure movies. Same goes for George Lucas’ dressed-like-nazis fascist protagonists.
Kids need that. We need that.

There once came a man to Nantucket
Who worshipped a Russian sock puppet
To show his devotion
He roomed at the ocean:
A Motel made from his trash bucket!

https://nantucketcurrent.com/news/cyber-stuck-first-tesla-cybertruck-on-nantucket-has-a-rough-day

#MotelASongPoemOrLimerick

#HashTagGames

I realize that Germany is much smaller and more densely populated than the US, so the distances to polling places are shorter. But on top of that, Germany votes on Sundays when the majority of eligible voters don't have to work. Democracy CAN be made easy if we WANT it!

When my husband voted in the last election (for the EU) it took him a bit over 12 minutes. His time today, in the German #Bundestagswahl:

11:59,61

How long did it take you to vote last time you did?

#speedVoting

https://mastodon.social/@meganmariehart/112585538270620114

#dePol #usPol #wahl #wahltag #bundestagswahl #election #vote

I wonder what it’s like out there
Out there way beyond them mountains
Where the folks talk nice an’ the folks dress nice
Like ya see in the mail order catalogs

I aim to leave this valley some day
An’ find out for myself:
To see all them tall buildin’s and all the street lights
An’ to be one o’them folks myself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDrfostRvMQ&t=133s

#TouristSongsPoemsOrLimericks #HashTagGames #operaQuote #Susannah #CarlisleFloyd #opera #operaSinger

2/2
“Hart opened the morning with Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein’s ‘All the Things You Are’ in a golden timbre with, a delicate elegance that captivated the audience.
[…]
As an encore, the duo thanked the long-lasting applause with the prayer ‘Avinu Malkeinu’ set to music by by Max Janowski."

❤️ Thank you very much for the article, Thomas Krügler!

❤️ Thank you Mathias Mönius for performing with me, thank you Intendantin Kirsten Uttendorf and Landestheater for having me, thank you #Detmold!

„Mit Jerome Kern und Oscar Hammersteins ‚All the Things You Are‘ eröffnete Hart den Vormittag im goldenen Timbre mit einer zarten Eleganz, die das Publikum bannte.
[…]
Für den lang anhaltenden Applaus bedankte sich das Duo als Zugabe mit der Gebetsvertonung ‚Avinu Malkeinu‘ von Max Janowski.“

❤️ Vielen Dank für den Artikel, Thomas Krügler!

1/2 [english translation in the next post]

https://www.lz.de/kultur_alt/24031204_Megan-Marie-Hart-feiert-in-Detmold-die-Juedische-Seele.html

LETTERS TO FRED: A Portrait of the Herzberg Family During the Holocaust
Song Cycle by Bracha Bdil

The terrible brutality of the Holocaust is so incomprehensible in its extent that it can only be understood on the basis of individual fates. This song cycle quotes from letters to the only survivor of the #Herzberg family from #Detmold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyvxOatnH04

#LettersToFred #BrachaBdil #songCycle #Liedzyklus #operaSinger #Darmstadt #artSong #HolocaustRemembrance #NeverAgain #Jewstodon #Mazeldon

Someone didn't give me my cue … if you catch my tenor.

#ExcusesForForgetting #HashTagGames

@jens well …

@jens Ih, no worries, I accidentally posted before I was done writing, because I felt I should check the privacy setting, and while I was editing you had already replied!

It’s a pun, but also based on oh so many real life examples. Somehow it’s always the tenors messing things up. They are super rare and sought after, and because of that can get away with almost anything, and they know it.

@jens There was an article I was interviewed for several years ago about gender discrimination in opera, that touches on the subject of male to female ratio in the business:
https://www.middleclassartist.com/post/excluded-penalized-indebted-harassed-a-study-of-systemic-discrimination-against-women-in-opera