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[seekingferret]

So for Yuletide this year I got the story I've been requesting for three years now. It is approximately as awesome as I'd hoped.

Soldiers and Goat Girls, Marriage of Figaro, Rosina/Susanna/Cherubino, post-canon, hijinks ensue.

Rosina is still outsmarting her husband, Susanna is still helping her, Cherubino is still kind of redeemably obnoxious and Figaro has no clue what's going on as usual, but he puts on a good front anyway, as usual. It is awesome. All of my favorite characters put through their paces again and proven just as capable as ever.

My point is, HIJINKS ENSUE.


Anyway, Christmas Eve was spent at a Jewish jazz concert at 6th Street Shul. John Zorn, Frank London, and Greg Wall playing "Walking in a Winter Wonderland." Rashanim with Greg Wall and Frank London playing Reb Shlomo Carlebach/Fela Kuti crossover fusion. The Klezmer-inspired big band Ain Sof Arkestra. Whatever the fuck Cyro Baptista's Banquet of the Spirits is- all I know is there was an oud and it was mesmerizing.

It was a pretty great night.

Today I have no plans. Thus far, that has meant reading through the Yuletide archives, eating pretzels, drinking good beer, and watching the Knicks. Oh yes, and to top off the day the Knicks are back. And not terrible, for the first time in my adult life.

Comments

[starlady]

That is, indeed, quite a good story. Now I'm sort of thinking I should ask for Don Giovanni next Yuletide… Hope you're having a good holiday still!

[seekingferret]

Did you see, there were in fact 2 Don Giovanni fics in Yuletide this year. Both Leporello centric.

[seekingferret]

Also, I just saw A Game of Shadows or whatever nonsense name they gave that movie, and the fic I want now is the one where Sherlock Holmes intentionally made the 'mistake' at the opera house because he wanted to hear the Commendatore's song and thought he'd still have time to stop the bombing.

[starlady]

I wonder why they chose Don Giovanni. Two years ago it was all the rage to have Tosca in movies.

I just read that DG story by the way, and OMG it's excellent.

[seekingferret]

Probably there's a brief allusion to Don Giovanni somewhere in the Holmes canon that the writers decided to expand all out of proportion. Either that or they got caught up in the visual match and forgot about the complete tonal mismatch for anyone who actually knows what's happening in that scene. I don't know, maybe we can theorize that the Commendatore's invitation was supposed to be read as directed toward Moriarty, but it's not like they gave us a Moriarty we could sympathize with in a Giovanniesque way. (Though it probably would have been a better movie if they had)

I don't like Schubert all that much and I thought the Trout metaphors were kind of stupid, but I liked that the gameplay between Holmes and Moriarty did involve music. Holmes's relationship with opera has always seemed to me one of the most human touches in his characterization.