@Admiral To add to the suggestions, her comments directed at you can be considered harassment by most employers and Human Resources departments. Aside from reporting her to the chain of command, I would cry havoc and let slip the dogs of HR on her, hound her from so many corners that she has no choice but to quit. If she wants to proselytize, she can go work at a church or be Reverend Bakker's next mistress.
When you're sick, a cup of consommé and some hot apple-cinnamon tea is apparently nirvana. Why hadn't I thought of this combination before? 
It can be daunting... especially if you've never had a chance to play it (like me- always wanted to but could never find a group)- but I'm excited!
Well. Excited and scared.
And I know things now, many wonderful things...
My app just got approved, and I'm looking forward to playing 
I'm going to dip my toes in this weekend after rehearsal and see what's what!
Tarantino has always felt like a great exponent of the school of style over substance. The problem with that is that you eventually run out of ways to make blood-encrusted rhinestones look cool and everybody realizes there's not much else. But while the glamour lasts, it's an entertaining ride.
@SG Oh hell this looks like fun! Combine it with Cartoon Action Hour for total insanity
@Jaded Hamlet 2: Ophelia Rises.
It could be like Night of the Living Dead, with codpieces.
Thanks for sympathizing with my pain- I've decided I'm just going to be the best Ottavio I can be, and pretend that he's just tripping balls for this particular production.
This guy is very much a Regietheater director, and Regietheater- like the flu and other afflictions- has to be endured until it passes. However, I now know to not audition for any productions where he will be the stage director...
And if he asks me to do something like masturbate onstage while singing il Mio Tesoro or something like that (this has happened to a colleague of mine with 'Regietheater' directors) he's going to be a very, very sad panda.
That time when you're stoked about performing your favorite Mozart opera-
And then the cocking stage director sends you his 'great concept' through email. And all excitement gets sucked out of the room as if a fucking Dementor had sashayed in.
Apparently the director felt that the 'Ending of the opera (the final sextet) didn't fit in with the dramatic concept of the show', so he cut it. Apparently he’s changing the opera so that at the scene where Don Giovanni is visited by the man he murdered, the scene is reset to the act I scene where he (offstage in Act I) tried to rape Donna Anna. And the great stage director will reveal that in the duel with Donna Anna’s father, it was actually Don Giovanni who got killed OoOoOoOooOOoo Shyamalan twist, THE WHOLE OPERA PLAYED OUT IN GIOVANNI’S MIND AS HE WAS DYING! He actually makes a mention of The Sixth Sense in the email- because we make things edgy by referencing a 17-year-old movie. Ooh! ooh! I have another way to make it edgy! Have Donna Elvira discover that THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!
But the thing that takes the cake is this little paragraph of presumptuousness where he hopes to :
“explore the push and pull of the Freudian concept of Id, Ego, and Super Ego” and how the characters are all manifestations of the ID-impulse-lust, Superego-conscience and Ego-balance. With the ending showing that, when the Commendatore takes Don Giovanni’s hand, the Don will open his shirt to reveal it soaked in his own blood and he will begin to realize he was the one killed and his life will finally unravel.
The conceit of it. "The ending the composer (Mozart, no less) composed didn't fit in with my blatant self-aggrandizement to show off what a smart cookie I am, so I've taken it out and replaced it with outmoded Freudian psychoanalysis to add smugly to the heap, being completely oblivious that this specific kind of reinvention was cliché 50 years ago when I was a fetus in the womb."
This has gone from 'a job I was looking forward to' to 'a job to get through just to have the role in my resume in the hopes of a better production in the future.' Unfortunately it is the Age of the Stage Director. The music director has no weight in most companies to pull back the nutbuttery. Fuck these ‘High Concept’ stage directors- if they want to parade what pretentious pricks they are, they can write their own plays and operas that nobody will see instead of piggybacking on someone else’s masterpiece that will guarantee them a captive audience.
What sucks is that 90% of the companies out there do not disclose the details of a production unless they're renting a pre-made production. Many times, the 'Great Director' hasn't fully completed 'his/her vision' until after contracts have been signed, so most singers are signing up blind when the audition and they have to hope they get a stage director who is not awful.
Geez, Chuma. You're only supposed to have a little Captain in you, not the entire goddamned Spanish Armada.
@Arkandel Ooh this is beautiful! I shall have to peruse it when I'm home from work, thank you!
@Arkandel Greece and Ecuador have a lot in common, alas.
Except music. Greece has the better music.
... you don't suppose I could bribe you to find me some scores by Hadjidakis? In particular his setting of Gatsos' poem "Vale ton ilio synoro?" I have tried everything to get my hot little hands on that music and I have failed miserably. 
@Arkandel said:
@Vorpal I bet my country of origin can give your country of origin a run for the money it doesn't have.
Prrrobably- though you have to try hard to match the level of suck that Ecuador has. I mean, just ask John Oliver 
Incidentally, the man is a hero to most sane Ecuadoreans- you can get jailed in Ecuador for saying the things he's said about the president on social media 
@tragedyjones
... BUT WITH CARNIVAL!
Infinitely more terrifying than a Big Daddy.
@Lithium Now that would be an interesting Fallout game- exploring how, say, Brazil or Italy developed after the apocalypse. Fallout: Verona, anyone? Or Venice. Venice would be a -cool- post-apoc setting...
Provided it managed to stay above water. Otherwise it's just Rapture with poor water pressure control.
@Glitch ... but you broke my gif!
EDIT: Nevermind, it's back now!
@Coin Wow. That's a new one. My country of origin is totally tits-up and owes money to everybody, but I haven't heard of that happening. Yet.
@Roz said:
Omg how will I pointedly tag people in my bitching about them
OH MY GOD WHERE DID THE SMILEYS GO
My precious codelings! Someone took my precious away!
-ok, at least the gifs work still. Not everything is lost.
I guess the update was a very, very drastic one.
@lordbelh said:
And hey, in the modern spirit of hollywood only producing remakes and sequels, there'll be a new one coming.
It's actually already in the works.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.