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️ Malik, I presume?@meganmariehart @futurebird from the paws you can see that this is indeed Malik
☻He is also a bit gentler. Čara
recently laid across TWO laptops without a care for what she disturbs, she just does her thing. He actually wants to just be close-by. (In my experience, larger cats do tend to be more gentle, like, asking before they jump up on the lap, not just climbing across a person with claws and just assuming the person will hold still.) -
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Trying to find out how many people see a post without hashtags. Thank you!
(edit: Why, you ask? Long thread coming up … 1/7)
@meganmariehart hmm, your own instance’s webinterface just shows 1K boosts at this point (and other instances don’t have the full number, mine shows 14 boosts for example).
But it can be asked for the full number from the command line:
curl -s -H 'Accept: application/json' https://mastodon.social/@meganmariehart/116044953904582813 | jq(If you don’t have
jqinstalled, just leave the| jqpart out, it’s merely to pretty-print the result.)[…] "shares": { "id": "https://mastodon.social/users/meganmariehart/statuses/116044953904582813/shares", "type": "Collection", "totalItems": 1010 } […]So, 1010 boosts currently. (Without
jqit’s a bit trickier to find in the wall-of-text that is the result, but Ctrl-F “shares” might help.curlis even preinstalled on Mac OSX and Windows these days.) -
@meganmariehart I have just checked your profile. sometimes random posts reach my server and I don't even read profiles.
opera singer - this is great. I have many friends in our local opera theater. I'm not a professional singer, I'm a progrsmmer, but have a "big voice" with over 3 octaves in range (low contralto as original fach and up to the 3rd octave). it took over 10 years of taking lessons from local opera soloists to build up and learn to control such a vocal. and I still work on it, trying to reach the perfect sound. and, of course, I'm a big fan of _the real_ opera (not the browser).
I had seen some composers over here, but their accounts are not much active. though, I have a couple of friends here that write about contemporary classical music (Shoenberg-like things, etc).
this is good that people of arts come to Fediverse. the most of our local musicians use FB or something like that. I wish the tag #opera could mean the operatic context. not the browser.@iron_bug We never stop learning! Just today I had a coaching with a bass, he is helping me to shape my low notes. I want more colors to chose from, there’s some low stuff coming my way.
As for #/opera, that could be worse, I tried a google search for Aida … the first 2 pages are all about a cruise ship!
I’m in Germany, you might get different results, idk. Where are you based, if you don’t mind telling? Maybe we have common friends, the opera world is small! -
@wndxlori That makes sense in most of the world. However, this might limit the reach, particularly for opera in Europe, where there are so many opera houses! Opera fans travel a lot!
@meganmariehart they do? Interesting!
I must admit I have never been to an opera. Until $smallnum years ago, the entrance would have been prohibitive. I wonder with how much “not dressing up” I can get by in the audience… I already find it major uncomfortable to wear a shirt (black, atop black normal trousers) for our choir concerts… I do actually have an opera house in the city! Might need to look into it.
I’ve listened to quite some in radio streams (I usually have some kind of classical internet radio on in the background), though I have to admit I was never all too fond of… the opera squeking, or so. (I recently found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZT61AsjqwA which places Bel Canto against contemporary Opera style-and-technique, and that is much more to my taste.) But I think I’ll want to try it at least once, to be able to listen (and feel!) it in real life (a recording is merely a bad substitute, this is something I know very well even as a mere amateur choir singer), plus for the theatralic parts. I probably really have to research that (and figure out clothes, I absolutely refuse to wear a tie, for example).
So I thank you for your continued presence here, always reminding me of something I could do some day.
(tbh I have a hard time going to concerts as visitor because I always want to sing/hum/… with… and ideally learn from the pros, though the King’s Singers said they’ll have a Summer School in the UK next year, so I plan for that)
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@meganmariehart @futurebird from the paws you can see that this is indeed Malik
☻He is also a bit gentler. Čara
recently laid across TWO laptops without a care for what she disturbs, she just does her thing. He actually wants to just be close-by. (In my experience, larger cats do tend to be more gentle, like, asking before they jump up on the lap, not just climbing across a person with claws and just assuming the person will hold still.)@mirabilos So cute! Our Suma kitty is very gentle and never even steps on people if she can help it. Swears like a sailor though. I’ll have to record it sometime.
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@iron_bug We never stop learning! Just today I had a coaching with a bass, he is helping me to shape my low notes. I want more colors to chose from, there’s some low stuff coming my way.
As for #/opera, that could be worse, I tried a google search for Aida … the first 2 pages are all about a cruise ship!
I’m in Germany, you might get different results, idk. Where are you based, if you don’t mind telling? Maybe we have common friends, the opera world is small!@meganmariehart this is barely, I reside in Yekaterinburg, Russia. yeah, not the best place to live nowadays. but I was born in this city and lived here for almot all my life.
my teacher was Olga Vutiras (uralopera.com/people/olga-vuti…), she is a coloratura in our theater - The Ural Opera Ballet Theater.
the theater had tours over Europe in summer time every year. but now everything went bad, as you can see and musicians also suffer from this events that happen. anyway, all bad things come to an end some day and I hope for the best, that our theater wtill tour again one fine day. -
@meganmariehart hmm, your own instance’s webinterface just shows 1K boosts at this point (and other instances don’t have the full number, mine shows 14 boosts for example).
But it can be asked for the full number from the command line:
curl -s -H 'Accept: application/json' https://mastodon.social/@meganmariehart/116044953904582813 | jq(If you don’t have
jqinstalled, just leave the| jqpart out, it’s merely to pretty-print the result.)[…] "shares": { "id": "https://mastodon.social/users/meganmariehart/statuses/116044953904582813/shares", "type": "Collection", "totalItems": 1010 } […]So, 1010 boosts currently. (Without
jqit’s a bit trickier to find in the wall-of-text that is the result, but Ctrl-F “shares” might help.curlis even preinstalled on Mac OSX and Windows these days.)@mirabilos Oh nonononono, that’s hacker code! I’ll show it to my husband hedoes that stuff.
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@iron_bug We never stop learning! Just today I had a coaching with a bass, he is helping me to shape my low notes. I want more colors to chose from, there’s some low stuff coming my way.
As for #/opera, that could be worse, I tried a google search for Aida … the first 2 pages are all about a cruise ship!
I’m in Germany, you might get different results, idk. Where are you based, if you don’t mind telling? Maybe we have common friends, the opera world is small!@meganmariehart the first years I took lessons from Natalya Motolygina-Ryavkina, she was a soprano for Omsk Musical Theater, then for Ural Opera Ballet. now she's not performing and works in some business, also teaching vocal, as far as I know. -
@meganmariehart they do? Interesting!
I must admit I have never been to an opera. Until $smallnum years ago, the entrance would have been prohibitive. I wonder with how much “not dressing up” I can get by in the audience… I already find it major uncomfortable to wear a shirt (black, atop black normal trousers) for our choir concerts… I do actually have an opera house in the city! Might need to look into it.
I’ve listened to quite some in radio streams (I usually have some kind of classical internet radio on in the background), though I have to admit I was never all too fond of… the opera squeking, or so. (I recently found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZT61AsjqwA which places Bel Canto against contemporary Opera style-and-technique, and that is much more to my taste.) But I think I’ll want to try it at least once, to be able to listen (and feel!) it in real life (a recording is merely a bad substitute, this is something I know very well even as a mere amateur choir singer), plus for the theatralic parts. I probably really have to research that (and figure out clothes, I absolutely refuse to wear a tie, for example).
So I thank you for your continued presence here, always reminding me of something I could do some day.
(tbh I have a hard time going to concerts as visitor because I always want to sing/hum/… with… and ideally learn from the pros, though the King’s Singers said they’ll have a Summer School in the UK next year, so I plan for that)
@mirabilos
Please go to the opera! As for attire, wear whatever you like! Seriously, jeans and a t-shirt are perfectly fine. If you’re unsure, wear something that makes you feel festive but comfortable. (Depending on the work, you may be sitting for over 3 hours.) There seem to be far fewer ties these days, basically since trump made them look ridiculous. Depending on where you are seated, some houses can be chilly in winter, so maybe wear a jumper, cardigan or suit jacket you can take off. -
@mirabilos So cute! Our Suma kitty is very gentle and never even steps on people if she can help it. Swears like a sailor though. I’ll have to record it sometime.
@meganmariehart sounds interesting. Čara is also much more vocal than Malik.
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@mirabilos
Please go to the opera! As for attire, wear whatever you like! Seriously, jeans and a t-shirt are perfectly fine. If you’re unsure, wear something that makes you feel festive but comfortable. (Depending on the work, you may be sitting for over 3 hours.) There seem to be far fewer ties these days, basically since trump made them look ridiculous. Depending on where you are seated, some houses can be chilly in winter, so maybe wear a jumper, cardigan or suit jacket you can take off.@meganmariehart ok, I’ll plan this (for after acute hazel/birch pollen season). Temperature should do, I went to where the choir sang for christmas in shorts… but I can do a little more festive but comfortable. Thanks!
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@mirabilos
Please go to the opera! As for attire, wear whatever you like! Seriously, jeans and a t-shirt are perfectly fine. If you’re unsure, wear something that makes you feel festive but comfortable. (Depending on the work, you may be sitting for over 3 hours.) There seem to be far fewer ties these days, basically since trump made them look ridiculous. Depending on where you are seated, some houses can be chilly in winter, so maybe wear a jumper, cardigan or suit jacket you can take off.@meganmariehart @mirabilos some people have never been to opera and in our theater in winter it's deadly cold. and some women don't know this, they had seen festive people in theaters on TV and put on their best, wearing evening gowns. and then turn blue and frozen before the end of the first act.
I always wear a good warm and cozy clothes if I go to opera. sitting 3-4 hours in a draughty and chilly place is a serious test and to enjoy music I need to feel comfortable, first of all. -
@meganmariehart this is barely, I reside in Yekaterinburg, Russia. yeah, not the best place to live nowadays. but I was born in this city and lived here for almot all my life.
my teacher was Olga Vutiras (uralopera.com/people/olga-vuti…), she is a coloratura in our theater - The Ural Opera Ballet Theater.
the theater had tours over Europe in summer time every year. but now everything went bad, as you can see and musicians also suffer from this events that happen. anyway, all bad things come to an end some day and I hope for the best, that our theater wtill tour again one fine day.@iron_bug You’re right, I don't think I personally know anyone currently in Yekaterinburg. I looked at the ensemble. But our recent Aida had an Amneris from Moscow, Ramfis from Georgia, Sacerdotessa from Armenia, Amonasro from Greece, Messaggero from Mexico, Faraone from South Korea, Radamès and myself from the US, and the director from Israel. I bet we’re no more than three degrees of separation away from each other because of opera, especially with the Yekaterinburg Opera touring!
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@iron_bug You’re right, I don't think I personally know anyone currently in Yekaterinburg. I looked at the ensemble. But our recent Aida had an Amneris from Moscow, Ramfis from Georgia, Sacerdotessa from Armenia, Amonasro from Greece, Messaggero from Mexico, Faraone from South Korea, Radamès and myself from the US, and the director from Israel. I bet we’re no more than three degrees of separation away from each other because of opera, especially with the Yekaterinburg Opera touring!
@meganmariehart wow! what a geographical variety.
over here we usually have local singers performing. sometimes guest soloists come to play in some spectacle. usually from other Russian cities. and very rarely foreign singers.
the specifics of our theaters that they have very many shows performed simultaneously. as far as I know many theaters in USA give only one opera for some long period. and in our theater every two days they have a different opera. they switch between like 5-6 spectacles during some time and between opera shows they have ballet. and ballet is also different every time. so they have only one day off - Monday. all the over days they give a performance. this is a very busy schedule for musicians, singers and dancers. -
BOOST OR QUOTE THIS!
Trying to find out how many people see a post without hashtags. Thank you!
(edit: Why, you ask? Long thread coming up … 1/7)
@meganmariehart regarding hashtags or not - I follow many hashtags for specific interests. If you can find a good (i.e. relevant, not spammy, many followers) then they will work well for you. Otherwise, you rely on follower networks.
Regarding the burden on running your own instance -
I haven't (yet) set up my own fedi instance (although I have tinkered with the code for some) but I think it needs more resources and more work than a bare bones website. -
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