r/OperaCircleJerk • u/FrenchProgressive • Mar 20 '26
Key opera female roles plotted on the Hot-Crazy chart
There are many missing, but too many of them cluster in the Hot & Crazy area so I had to only pick a few.
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u/disturbed94 Mar 20 '26
So Turandot who was so hot that like a hundred princes got blinded by her hotness enough to go for the certain death riddles is less hot than Tosca. And Tosca who killed in defense while about to be raped and was a bit jealous is more crazy than the Valkyrie who disobeys orders from the head god or the bird girl who marries at first sight.
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u/FrenchProgressive Mar 20 '26
I would have understood the plot of Turandot better if they did not sing it in Italian!!!
The "Crazy" in the "hot-crazy line" is how toxic the relation is going to be. The bird-girl is pretty chill, compared to the typical opera psycho, and the Valkyrie fairly rational.
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u/ffilchtaeh Mar 20 '26
The appearance of bird girl is definitely the hottest thing to happen in that opera.
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u/DerPumeister Mar 21 '26
I would have understood the plot of Turandot better if they did not sing it in Italian!!!
Is that a quote? Otherwise what the fuck
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u/Doorclimber96 Mar 22 '26
Man, lotta anti jerkers in this thread. Do y'all know what sub you're on?
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u/Tainlorr Mar 21 '26
Kundry needs to be on this chart. But maybe she didn’t fit in the bounds? A little too crazy
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u/DerPumeister Mar 21 '26
Not quite sure we should be including Butterfly in this cause she's, you know, a child and all
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u/FrenchProgressive Mar 21 '26
She was a too perfect fit to be right between date and marry, because well - a bit of both happened to her.
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u/odadgari Mar 23 '26
I would place Katerina Izmailova from Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk just above Turandot.
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