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Micaela Baranello
@micaelab.bsky.social
musicologist (asst prof, Temple University), Philadelphia’s 36th leading SEPTA Route 2 busfluencer. she/her.
hot take: I know they were a fad but I think they've gone around to being underrated. love them in a sandwich.
December 1, 2025 at 12:22 AM
my cousin makes an amazing one every year, she claims it’s not too hard
December 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Marching band at Temple is mostly extracurricular (unlike more hardcore football schools where many music students choose the program for the band) but some music majors participate and a few of mine are there
November 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
You have to read it as an operetta and/or as an allegory for the Gründerzeit Dual Empire for it to make sense IMO
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 AM
I found a lot to enjoy about that performance.

Conducting at the end was unforgivably rushed, though
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 AM
At one point in Act 2 I was like “this is so operetta” and then I remembered I published an entire academic article about how Arabella has an operetta libretto
November 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Every opera should have a two-minute yodeling break

Norma? Add yodels
Pelléas? Needs more yodeling
Lulu? Maybe already has yodeling, only George Perle knows for sure
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This production has not sold well at all but, you know, maybe they shouldn’t do an Otto Schenk production from 1983
November 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Par for the course from Konieczny, very well acted and the singing is not bad

I have seen him sing Wotan twice and still can’t spell his name, Polish is not my métier
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Little unsteady from Rachel Willis-Sorensen, some of it glorious but it’s like she has 20% more voice than she knows what to do with
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Nothing changes at Opa’s house (Opa is Otto Schenk)

ht @akseltoll.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I thought all the gold was referencing the Met itself but judging by the rest of the show I may have been overthinking things lol
November 25, 2025 at 3:50 AM
The hats in this production
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 AM
That thing I said about the Konzept not being bad? I take that back
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Beczala has been doing this forever and still sounds fresh most of the time and Yoncheva has not been doing this forever and does not
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The Konzept of this production isn’t bad but the Personenregie is truly inept
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
There’s a recording! I liked it fine though most of the interest is in its timing (immediate post WWII)
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM