The Opera Buffalo (Bert) (@theoperabuffalo)

After 1,100 vids, my final Tiktok is a repost of my all-time favorite: Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks’ art song On Me to Rest (1938) #classicalmusic #paperart #operatok #womencomposers #artsong

A next-to-last post (probably)… 🥺 thank you so much to all my amazing followers, you’re the BEST! #classicalmusic #paperart #operatok

Our titular heroine’s father believes his daughter should choose her own love in Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Luisa Miller, from 1849 #classicalmusic #paperart #operatok #opera

For Epiphany - 3 Kings’ Day - it’s Astro del cielo, a Christmas song that takes a Giacomo Puccini solfege (musical exercise using syllables instead of words) from 1893 and adds traditional Italian carol lyrics, arranged by Michael Kaye #classicalmusic #paperart #epiphany

Happy New Year wherever you are! A New Year Carol, Benjamin Britten’s 1934 setting for children’s choir of an old English folk song. The tradition in Wales for New Year was for children to go around sprinkling well-water on people with a holly twig… #happynewyear2025 #britten #levydew #classical

Something not Messiah for the season: Laudate pueri Dominum! It’s G F Händel’s (second) setting of Psalm 113, for soprano, chorus and orchestra, 1707 #classicalmusic #paperart #baroquemusic

#duet with @The Opera Buffalo (Bert) Angels for the season: Zoltan Kodaly’s Christmas anthem Anglyok es Pasztorok (Angels and Shepherds) from 1948 - Opera Buffalo trivia: I sang this as a boy soprano back in the 1970s #angels #christmas

Merry Christmas Eve, with a repost: Cassandra’s Lullaby from Black composer Mark Fax’s 1958 opera A Christmas Miracle #operatok #opera #blackcomposers #classicalmusic

The Snow Is Dancing, from the Children’s Corner suite for piano by Claude Debussy (1908) #paperart #classicalmusic #debussy #snowisdancing #pianosolo #winteriscoming

#duet with @The Opera Buffalo (Bert) There Is No Rose of Such Virtue, a carol from the Trinity Carol Roll, ca. 1415, in praise of Mary. The roll is the earliest surviving polyphonic music in English #classicalmusic #earlymusic #polyphony #christmascarol

Someone’s on the naughty list! You could also say “It” is beginning to look a lot like Christmas 🤡. Leon Jessel’s Die Parade der Zinnsoldaten - Parade of the Tin Soldiers (1897) #classicalmusic #paperart

J.S. Bach going all out on the tone painting: “See, I stand before the door and knock…” from his 1714 cantata for advent, Nun komm der Heiden Heiland BWV 61 #paperart #baroquemusic #cantata #jsbach #advent

Black Friday Special: Did you know long before Wicked or even the 1939 Wizard of Oz movie, there was Frank L. Baum’s own hugely popular The Wonderful Wizard of Oz musical extravaganza, from 1902? Here, a song of the Tin Woodman, sung by vaudevillian Bert Shepard (pre-1913) #paperart #musicaltheatre #wicked #blackfriday

There’s nothing quite like a Händel rage aria! Here our titular hero is upset about a letter he just got 😬. From GF Händel’s 1738 opera Serse (that would be Xerxes in English) #classicalmusic #paperart #opera #operatok

Lord have mercy. I have no words. (A repost of a tiktok made while waiting for the returns of the previous election, takes on a whole new meaning four years later.) The Kyrie from J S Bach’s Mass in B Minor (1749)

Replying to @Guy Pidkameny your wish is my command: for sppoky season, a repost of that devil Marbuel in Antonín Dvořák’s other Slavic fairytale opera, Čert a Káča (The devil and Kate) from 1899 #paperart #classicalmusic #opera #operator #spookyseason2019

Replying to @Tasha Tatiana your wish is my command: a re-repost for scary season: the witches’ chorus from Verdi’s 1877 opera Macbeth, based in Shakespeare’s play

Repost: It’s the donkey duet from André Messager’s operetta Véronique (1898) #paperart #operetta #operatok #classicalmusic

It’s our titular antihero in Heinrich Marschner’s Hans Heiling (1833), which at the time was as popular as his other supernatural opera, Der Vampyr, which has recently made a comeback to the repertoire. #paperart #classicalmusic #operatok #opera #supernaturalopera

From Lars-Erik Larsson’s neoromantic secular cantata Förklädd gud (God in disguise). Premiering in 1940, it remains extremely popular in Sweden. #paperart #classicalmusic #cantata #neoromantic

Our young hero, the fisherman Zéphoris, dreams of what it would mean if he was king, in Adolph Adam’s obscure opera Si j’étais roi (1852) #paperart #classicalmusic #opera #operatok

The allegro from the first canonic sonata (1727) of Georg-Philipp Telemann played by flutes reminds me of birds of course! #paperart #baroquemusic #classicalmusic

Repost: Cécile Chaminade’s chanson Mignonne (1894) set to Pierre de Ronsard’s poem À Cassandre from 1545 #paperart #classicalmusic #womencomposers #chanson #artsong

Repost: Zenobia Powell Perry’s art song, Spring Song (1977-84), set to a poem of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Perry studied under Darius Milhaud, among others and she taught at many HBCUs #paperart #classicalmusic #blackcomposers #artsong #femalecomposer

It’s the OG Ursula - the Ur-Ursula if you will - the witch Ježibaba (aka Baba Yaga) from Antonin Dvorǎk’s opera Rusalka (1901), based on the little mermaid fairytale! #paperart #classicalmusic #opera #operatok

Sharknado, hold my beer! God has had it with the people and he’s about to rain down a thousand serpents on them, in Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka’s cantata Il Serpente di Bronzo (1730) #paperart #baroquemusic #cantata

Our titular antihero making weird promises to his crush in Giovanni Baptista Bononcini’s opera Polifemo (1702) written for the very musical Queen Sophia Charlotte of Prussia, who played the harpsichord at the first performances, according to eyewitness Georg-Philipp Telemann #paperart #opera #operatok #baroquemusic

Our titular heroine from obscure German baroque composer Johann Mattheson’s 1704 opera Die Unglückselige Kleopatra, Königin von Ägypten (the unfortunate Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt) #paperart #opera #baroquemusic #operatok

It’s that villain Zamoski in Luigi Cherubini’s opera Faniska (1806), virtually forgotten now but a huge hit in its day #operatok #paperart #opera #classicalmusic (also, a behind-the-scenes for @CarolUnfiltered on this Tiktok is coming tomorrow!)

How I do a Tiktok! For you @CarolUnfiltered This is reaaaaalllly long but it’s got it all, including the costumes! #behindthescenes #operatok #theoperabuffalo