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[truepenny]

Because, really, how can you NOT want to know which opera diva you are?
(Found via yonmei.)



You are Tatyana from Tchaikovsky's "Eugene
Onegin"!
You're definitely a dreamer, and though you may
seem reserved you're actually a very warm and
passionate person. Unfortunately, not a lot of
people get to know the real you since you tend
to keep to yourself and your books. You love
deeply--just try not to get too crushed if
things don't work out.


Which DIVA are you?
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ETA: And since it seems to be a geeky quiz kind of day ...

The quiz question is, How well do you know HAMLET?
(Found via bonibaru.)



You absolutely love Hamlet and/or Shakespeare. You
like the play enough to know what, when, why,
and where things happen. You might even have
the play memorized.


How well do you know Hamlet?
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Comments

[pameladean]

That is not a bad Hamlet quiz.

My answer is the same as yours.

Pamela

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Got the same result as well. Would have been pretty miffed otherwise, I have to confess. It's my favourite Bard play. Just don't ask the deep questions about Macbeth. & :-)

[vass]

:swearing: :reversion to adolescence:

It told me I'm Cio Cio San!

Why couldn't I be Tosca, or Brunhilde? I like Brunhilde. Or Turandot? Or Isolde? Or Rosina, for crying out loud - the Marriage of Figaro or the Barber of Seville Rosina, I don't mind which (not the Cherubin one, though, please - I'd rather not have Cherubino's baby.)

Aw, what? I could have been Elektra? Un-faiir!

Or what about Monica from Menotti's Medium?

Hold on, I know why they made me Cio Cio San. I said honour was important to me. Well I guess that isn't too bad. And they completely misinterpreted her character. She is not a doormat, she just has completely different cultural standards and personal standards of integrity from the man she's matched with, and a need to uphold those personal standards even if her husband doesn't. She's the Ekaterin Vorsoisson of Puccini.

I think I've just talked myself into liking her. The problem is, she's written as, or at least interpreted as, a child. Naive, undeveloped, unspoiled and innocent and uninformed, and desired by Pinkerton for that very reason. And that's how the critics seem to see her too.

But it doesn't square with her actions. She doesn't raise her child as an American, or convert to Christianity, out of naivity. She doesn't hold to the same tenet as her father, "to die with honour when one can no longer live with honour," because she's a male-dominated little victim. And in the last act, she very clearly assesses her options and chooses the only one that leaves her son *and* her honour (both ancestral and marital) looked after.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Offhand, I'm guessing that you know more about opera than the quiz designers do. Which I appreciate in a person.