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It's the eve of my birthday, dammit, so I get to force my favourite bit of operatic femslash on the lot of you...




Octavian - the breeches part - is being handed over by his older lover to his younger lover; the two younger lovers are chastened by her heartbreak and yet also incredibly happy. No-one dies, everyone sort of wins, everyone sort of loses. That's how I like things and this is the music playing in my head a lot of the time when I write bittersweet stuff in my fic.

And here is the duet that follows




Ah the abuse of technology, doncha love it?

Date: 2007-07-08 11:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rozk.livejournal.com
I don't know that version, but I have always been a huge fan of the chamber version of Verklarte Nacht. And of the romantic Schoenberg in general - the Song of the WoodDove is one of my never-failing tearjerkers.
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