>>8030713If you want to support the already dying industry I'd suggest you to get a subscription on
medici.tv since the price is halvened for this month, there's also another paid streaming website whose name slips my mind and opera vision on youtube. The former offers both old and new recordings, english subs and the widest collection of opera and classical concerts. If you want to do it the pirate way sign up on rutracker and download the recordings off there or look them up on youtube if they're available. I'd suggest you to try out Pagliacci as a first taste because the length won't burn you out. The subtitles are a hit or miss thing, in the worst case scenario you'll have to scroll through the librettoes on another window while watching the show. All in all my suggestion is to avoid most of the latest representations due to the stage directors adopting rather ambiguous and unfitting outfits or fucking the whole atmosphere over by steering from the original setting altogether for one reason or another. You'd see Shakespearen operas with suffragettes and random space settings instead of proper historical settings, it seems like they're desperate to keep the medium alive so they resort to the dumbest schemes to promote the works, but that's just a matter of taste and might not influence you as much.
