1 | ->‘‘Opera for dummies, by dummies.’’ |
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3 | Essentially TheAbridgedSeries for {{opera}} in written form, [[http://smooth-operators.deviantart.com Smooth Operators]] parodies gently poke fun at both specific operas and operatic tropes in general. |
4 | |
5 | The Smooth Operators team have so far abridged: |
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7 | * ''[[http://inverted-jabberwocky.deviantart.com/art/Cosi-fan-tutte-parody-act-1-214690207 Così fan tutte]]'' |
8 | * ''[[http://inverted-jabberwocky.deviantart.com/art/Figaro-parody-act-1-269777889 The Marriage of Figaro]]'' |
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10 | ---- |
11 | !!This series provide examples of: |
12 | |
13 | [[foldercontrol]] |
14 | |
15 | [[folder:General tropes]] |
16 | * AnachronismStew: Frequently lampshaded. |
17 | * AnAesop[=/=]SpoofAesop |
18 | * AuthorAvatar: The series’ four creators appear as characters in their own right. |
19 | * TheCameo: WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse appears as a “[[StickyFingers collections agent for Euro Disney]]”, as well as a mortician [[spoiler: and healer]]. |
20 | * EitherOrTitle: Each opera has multiple alternate titles that change with each act. Sometimes veers into ShortTitleLongElaborateSubtitle. |
21 | * FramingDevice: Each parody begins with the Smooth Operators team attending the opera. |
22 | * OriginalCharacter: Each opera features at least one fan-created character. |
23 | * PlotInducedStupidity: Whenever a character is hit by the [[IdiotBall Opera Character Intelligence-Sapping Ray]]. |
24 | * PortmanteauSeriesNickname: “Smoperators”. |
25 | * PunnyName: Smooth '''Opera'''tors. |
26 | * TradeSnark: Each time the Opera Character Intelligence-Sapping Ray is mentioned. |
27 | [[/folder]] |
28 | |
29 | [[folder:Così fan tutte]] |
30 | ->“[[TabletopGame/{{Clue}} The maid in the chapel with the revolver.]] Goodness, I think Lorenzo da Ponte would be most surprised to discover he’d written ''that''.” |
31 | |
32 | * {{Angrish}}: Ferrando [[spoiler: after it's revealed Guglielmo slept with his fiance.]] |
33 | ** Similarily, Guglielmo [[spoiler: after Ferrando reveals he's done the same with ''his'' fiance.]] |
34 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Don Alfonso]]. |
35 | * BetaCouple: Despina [[spoiler: and Fig]]. |
36 | * CanonForeigner: It’s revealed that [[spoiler: Fig is the very same Figaro from the Beaumarchais plays (and related operas)]]. |
37 | ** This is (unwittingly) {{lampshaded}} fairly early on: |
38 | --> '''Inverted-Jabberwocky:''' A guy whose name is [[spoiler: only a few letters away from being “Figaro” ''and'' who used to be a barber is flirting with a snarky maid]] . . . we haven’t accidentally wandered into [[Theatre/TheMarriageOfFigaro the wrong opera]], have we? |
39 | * ChewingTheScenery: Done quite literally by Despina early in the second act. |
40 | * FunetikAksent: Despina, when disguised as a doctor. |
41 | * FunWithAcronyms: '''O'''rder for the '''P'''rotection of '''E'''arnest '''R'''ock '''A'''ppreciators. |
42 | * GratuitousGerman: Despina, as the doctor. |
43 | * IncrediblyLamePun: “I can’t carry a tune to save my life – not even one that has handles . . . oh, what a shame this is ''Così fan tutte'' and not ''Xerxes'' – then I could’ve said something like, “not even one that has Handels”!” |
44 | * LadyLooksLikeADude: Smoperators team members [=WitchChao=] and [=NatureTheZafara=] express confusion regarding Marlena’s gender when she first appears. |
45 | * ManipulativeBastard: Don Alfonso, by his own admission. |
46 | * OriginalCharacter: Fig the waiter, Marlena the maid and Ciliegia, Dorabella and Fiordiligi’s [[BigFriendlyDog pet dog]]. |
47 | * ShoutOut: Multiple, but among the most notable: |
48 | ** “The phoenix ''does'' exist – where else would we get [[Franchise/FinalFantasy Phoenix Down]] from?” |
49 | ** “[[Theatre/{{Rigoletto}} They are as fickle as a feather in the breeze!]]” |
50 | ** Ciliegia’s [[BilingualBonus name]] is a shout out to ''Manga/LuckyStar''. |
51 | ** Fiordiligi and Dorabella seem to be involved with the [[VideoGame/RuleofRose Red Crayon Aristocracy]]. |
52 | ** ''[[Disney/{{Mulan}} Mulan]]'': |
53 | --> '''Fiordiligi:''' After acquiring all the necessary accoutrements, I must be sure to cut my hair, rename myself “Ping” and then . . . where does one even ''find'' a dragon? Is there a store? |
54 | * StrawFeminist: Marlena has shades of this. |
55 | * TitleDrop: Despina supplies (and lampshades) a fairly liberal translation: “They’re ''all'' like that . . . hey, that’s a good title for an opera!” |
56 | * ThemeNaming: Fiordiligi – whose name literally translates as “loyal flower” – is given a series of flower-related nicknames by Ferrando. |
57 | * WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Despina, when disguised as the doctor. |
58 | * YouNeedToGetLaid: Fiordiligi, according to Dorabella. |
59 | [[/folder]] |
60 | |
61 | [[folder:The Marriage of Figaro]] |
62 | -> '''Susanna: ''' Madame, [[AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering could you be thinking what I’m thinking?]]\ |
63 | '''The Countess:''' I think so, but really, why should it matter whether Idamante is played by a [[TenorBoy tenor]] or a [[CrosscastRole mezzo-soprano]]? |
64 | |
65 | * ADateWithRosiePalms: Antonio thinks Bartolo is spying on Susanna and Marcellina for this reason. |
66 | ** Cherubino also mentions it in the fourth act by way of a {{pun}}. |
67 | * AllPeriodsArePMS: Used as part of the Countess’ plot to fool her husband: |
68 | -->'''Susanna:''' Sir, someone in the kitchen told me you had some chocolate . . . I wondered if I might be able to have it.\ |
69 | '''The Count:''' Chocolate? At this hour? Whatever for?\ |
70 | '''Susanna:''' It’s for her ladyship – she’s become rather… emotional. It’s quite distressing, actually – when I asked her if she was feeling all right, she screamed that she hated me and threw a chair at my head.\ |
71 | '''The Count:''' Wretched woman! She does this every month! |
72 | * BilingualBonus: Cherubino’s [[GratuitousItalian song]] to the Countess. |
73 | * CallingYourAttacks: Susanna. It later helps Figaro recognise her when she is in disguise. |
74 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The Countess borders on this, often lapsing into non sequitur and frequently getting distracted by her own trains of thought when speaking. |
75 | * ColourfulThemeNaming: The names of the village girls are variations on different shades of red. |
76 | * DirtyOldMan: Doctor Bartolo. |
77 | * DudeLooksLikeALady: Cherubino, according to the audience: |
78 | --> “Between that voice and those hips, “he’s” not fooling anyone.” |
79 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Monsieur Fal, from the third story in the ''Figaro'' trilogy, appears briefly in the third act. |
80 | * {{Fanservice}}: Barbarina claims disguising Cherubino as a girl serves only “to appease the silly [[YuriFan audience members]] who like this [[YuriGenre ‘yoo-ree’ stuff]]”. |
81 | * GirlOnGirlIsHot: Cherubino certainly seems to think so: |
82 | -->“Sometimes I dream about Godmamma, and sometimes about Barbarina, and sometimes about [Susanna] too! And sometimes, I dream about the three of you ''together''!” |
83 | * GirlyRun: Susanna instructs Cherubino how to do this when disguising him as a girl. |
84 | * HormoneAddledTeenager: Cherubino; possibly Bavón. |
85 | * IWantGrandkids: Antonio becomes like this after learning Barbarina intends to marry Cherubino. |
86 | * LoveAtFirstSight: Bavón for Cherubino, whom he [[IncompatibleOrientation mistakenly believes will reciprocate]]; Cherubino promptly [[IncrediblyLamePun sets him straight]]. |
87 | * MediumAwareness: Several characters appear to possess this, most notably the Countess. |
88 | * MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: Bavón attempts to poison Barbarina after Cherubino agrees to marry her]]. |
89 | * OriginalCharacter: Bavón, the baker’s apprentice. |
90 | * ShoutOut: |
91 | ** ''Theatre/TheGondoliers'' by Creator/GilbertAndSullivan: |
92 | -->''"Right, and I’m the king of Barataria!"'' |
93 | ** "[[SuckMyRose Suck my]] [[Theatre/DerRosenkavalier Rosenkavalier]]!" |
94 | ** Figaro is [[Film/MirrorMask a very important man – he has a tower]]. |
95 | ** "We should turn that into a song, the kind that [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption someone in prison would lock himself into the superintendent’s office to play to the other inmates]]!" |
96 | ** Some of the alternate names suggested for Cherubino include: |
97 | *** [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Bridget]] (specifically referencing the “UnsettlingGenderReveal” trope) |
98 | *** Serafimo, from the fictional opera ''[[Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera Il muto]]'', itself a parody of ''The Marriage of Figaro''. |
99 | *** Mariandel, a reference to Octavian from ''Theatre/DerRosenkavalier''. |
100 | ** The contents of Barbarina’s picnic basket are the same as [[Literature/TheWindInTheWillows Ratty’s]]. |
101 | ** “The signal will be . . . ‘[[WesternAnimation/{{SuperTed}} pulsating prunes]]’!” |
102 | * SafeWord: Figaro and Susanna’s is “Portugal”. |
103 | * TalksLikeASimile: [=WitchChao=]: “Our situation seems to be stickier than a melted caramel chew on a warm gingersnap . . . ” |
104 | * UnusualEuphemism: “Show you my snail collection” ultimately becomes this. |
105 | * [[VictoriasSecretCompartment Victoria’s Secret Compartment]]: The Countess stores pens and leaves of parchment down the front of her bodice. |
106 | * WaxingLyrical: With ''Loch Lomond'', ''[[Music/{{Queen}} Bohemian Rhapsody]]'' and ''Oh! Susanna''. |
107 | * WholesomeCrossdresser: Smoperators team member [=SuperMimbles360=] may be a budding example of this, expressing a desire to wear a kodona outfit instead of the dress she’s in. |
108 | * {{Yandere}}: Bavón. |
109 | * YaoiFangirl: At least three of the village girls ship Bavón/Cherubino. |
110 | [[/folder]] |
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