Wandering Adventure Party

@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.

@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 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 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 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.

@Sevapopov @meganmariehart @PatrickOBeirne no, you can't find people that go to opera and like opera by tag "opera". you will probably find fans of some proprietary browser instead. this is an example of totally litter tag.and among that litter you barely can find information about real opera theaters and so on.

@meganmariehart the underlying protocol of Fediverse is not dependent on any tags. strictly saying it does not have tags at all. it works like email and delivery depends on user addresses ;like username+servername. if a connected user reposts or comments some post in Fediverse, there's a chance that his followers get a copy if the original post too, so posts spread across trhe different servers on Fediverse.
some platforms (like Mastodon) allow subscription to tags and some filtering on tags. others do not offer that features. but tags often may be used in seatch engines on servers and people may sort out messages with tags for easier search.