439: Mellow Drama – chapter 53

• Shannon Okey on our Crafty Chat!
  • Her Patreon adventure
• Articles on how the industry is changing here, here, and here.
• Hidden Figures

Book Talk • 8:51

• The Opera: Robert le Diable

By Anonymous print – User scan of Fontaine, Gérard (2004). Charles Garnier’s Opéra: Architecture and Interior Decor, translated by Charles Penwarden. Paris: Éditions Patrimoine. ISBN 9782858228010. Original: Bibliothèque-Musée de l’Opéra, Public Domain, Link

• Degas (damning?) take on the crowd “watching” the Ballet of the Nuns (or the daemons… I never was clear on this bit:

By Edgar Degas – http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O17815/oil-painting-the-ballet-scene-from-meyerbeers/, Public Domain, Link

• Nicolas Levasseur

By François-Gabriel Lépaulle – Scan from the original work: Letellier, Robert Ignatius (2012). Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable: The Premier Opéra Romantique. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 9781443841917., Public Domain, Link

• Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tavricheski
• Diogenes