音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

I was originally planning to sum up this year by a series of "Year-End Memoirs", but due to being drowning in operas and other classical music, I haven't even written a single word about it. So guess this plan will be started tomorrow and expanded till the very beginning of next year~

And today's topic is opera (NOT the browser!).

I'd blame and feel very sorry for anyone who doesn't like Mozart! Since these days, I'm overwhelmed by pure classical. This or that piece of Mozartian arias, while sometimes being his other works, lingers in my mind, and crosses over to each other. This year's holiday rocks because of his excellent operas: Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte. How many versions I've gone through?--At least two per opera, and even though I do also enjoy Bizat's Carmen and some Verdi highlights (I have a few others but haven't started yet), but, who doesn't like watching non-tragedies during the end of year?

Although my own tragedy is always here that I don't know what they're singing unless turning on the subtitles, Mozart's music simply cheers me up and makes me so hyper that even having the impulse to say that any other music is rubbish--If you don't believe me, listen to both arias by Queen of the Night (see how beautiful human voice can be!). And right, I'm aware of that's merely my drunken words. Other music is great of course, as long as it rings listener's heart.

Anyway, speaking of opera, now I'm so assured that you have to know what's going on before you can fully enjoy the performance. Maybe that's why I don't tend to listen to too much of full opera recordings. Well, if you only want the "sound", go playing without the basic background then, and be prepared with the sextet "Riconosci in questo amplesso una madre" (a delightful scene that is always fun to watch).
↓ my favorite performance so far.

Since I'm already started the random opera-related topic, it doesn't hurt to link another funny scene from my favorite opera:
↓ "Aprite, presto, aprite"

Now I really understand. Not only good singing, how the actors interact matters so much whether a performance is of my love or not. And the 1993 recording thus captured my heart.

Maybe I should pray to be able to perform Queen of the Night in my afterlife♪

As I said last time, I couldn't release this one due to I didn't know what to name it--Yet it's still true after I posted it this morning.
Right, now it does have a title, but not as perfect as what I wished that was too abstract to write in any kinds of languages.

Anyway...

@Pixiv
Full title is:
詩魔法：『サキちゃんのお祈り――クリスマスミックス・オボンヌスペシャル♪』
Song Magic: "Saki-chan's Prayer--Xmas Mix: Obonnu Special"

So it's a mixed concept including all three Ar Tonelico series, although the connection to A.T.3 looked a bit forceful. Well, she loves cakes, and cakes (transformed from humans) are scary!

Cakes are indeed scary! Mine in this work took up ~15G of the remaining disk space during one SINGLE save event. (Before I started to "make" the cake, things were fine.)

See. Before I had 16.4G, and when I was saving this file, I only had 124M free space.
――ケーキ怖ぇよ！ @w@

But seems I'm now more excited by another new work that I did in last evening..
↑ Verdi in ASCII!! XD

It's so surprising that my first ASCII art was Verdi--not Mozart.

Nothing can be even better with Mozart's music flowing in background for fetching a delightful holiday mood (even though I'm planning to play Silent Hill 4 soon and my first played piece in the very beginning of holiday was Beethoven's No. 9!). I don't mind (yet probably I won't) looping his "Die Zauberflöte" for the whole day.
--Or maybe I should watch his "Le Nozze di Figaro" again. Till now I still feel so lucky that I bought it for only $1.5 dollars (not that expensive, but take a look at its regular price on Amazon)--my favorite performance of this opera. ;P
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With Akiko's Umineko songs, the whole racks of Gin's seemed to be abnormally forceful and grave--yet I couldn't hold myself expressing my excitement.
Well, comparing to Gin, I would choose Vodka...
↑ only applies to Detective Conan. So can I assume that their "boss" is Aspergillus oryzae or this sort?!

Since my knowledge about spirits/liquor is nothing other than it contains EtOH, you won't expect me can talk at all just as how I feel while reading the scientific stories back of those beautiful Hubble images.
Perhaps the various colourful well-designed bottles catch more of my attention. ∑(っ ° ω°)っ

Anyhow, it was indeed great to get excited by simply looking at Gin's with Umineko playing in background.
And what I brought out from the liquor store was a bottle of plum sake. (´・ω・｀)

It's the end period of year again. This year flowed much faster than any other years as I can remember. It's must because the extreme richness of the past 11.74 months. So, starting next time to the end of year, I'm planning to summarise this excellent year by a series of "忘年メモワール (Bounen Memoirs)" posts.
But before that, I gotta release my newest (X'mas-ish) drawing before tomorrow evening. I've done most works a week ago, but couldn't finalise it due to I don't know what to name it.