Megan Marie HartBOOST OR QUOTE THIS!
Trying to find out how many people see a post without hashtags. Thank you!
(edit: Why, you ask? Long thread coming up … 1/7)
Vsevolod Popov@meganmariehart I never use hashtags on Mastodon since I forgot that they were used in Twitter. They are not used in Telegram. In case of Russian mastodon there are 2 bots that boost your posts if they are written in russian. I have no idea how they are boosted if they are written in English and how, let's say, a person would find somebody to follow in Mastodon if he only registered and wants to find something to read and interact with.
Patrick O'Beirne@Sevapopov @meganmariehart
AFAIK people can opt out of allowing full-text search of their posts. If so, you can only find people talking about opera if they use a hashtag #opera.
AFAIK people can opt out of allowing full-text search of their posts. If so, you can only find people talking about opera if they use a hashtag #opera.
Iron Bug@Sevapopov @meganmariehart @PatrickOBeirne no, you can't find people that go to opera and like opera by tag "opera". you will probably find fans of some proprietary browser instead. this is an example of totally litter tag.and among that litter you barely can find information about real opera theaters and so on.
@meganmariehart I have just checked your profile. sometimes random posts reach my server and I don't even read profiles.
opera singer - this is great. I have many friends in our local opera theater. I'm not a professional singer, I'm a progrsmmer, but have a "big voice" with over 3 octaves in range (low contralto as original fach and up to the 3rd octave). it took over 10 years of taking lessons from local opera soloists to build up and learn to control such a vocal. and I still work on it, trying to reach the perfect sound. and, of course, I'm a big fan of _the real_ opera (not the browser).
I had seen some composers over here, but their accounts are not much active. though, I have a couple of friends here that write about contemporary classical music (Shoenberg-like things, etc).
this is good that people of arts come to Fediverse. the most of our local musicians use FB or something like that. I wish the tag #opera could mean the operatic context. not the browser.
opera singer - this is great. I have many friends in our local opera theater. I'm not a professional singer, I'm a progrsmmer, but have a "big voice" with over 3 octaves in range (low contralto as original fach and up to the 3rd octave). it took over 10 years of taking lessons from local opera soloists to build up and learn to control such a vocal. and I still work on it, trying to reach the perfect sound. and, of course, I'm a big fan of _the real_ opera (not the browser).
I had seen some composers over here, but their accounts are not much active. though, I have a couple of friends here that write about contemporary classical music (Shoenberg-like things, etc).
this is good that people of arts come to Fediverse. the most of our local musicians use FB or something like that. I wish the tag #opera could mean the operatic context. not the browser.
@iron_bug We never stop learning! Just today I had a coaching with a bass, he is helping me to shape my low notes. I want more colors to chose from, there’s some low stuff coming my way.
As for #/opera, that could be worse, I tried a google search for Aida … the first 2 pages are all about a cruise ship! 🚢 I’m in Germany, you might get different results, idk. Where are you based, if you don’t mind telling? Maybe we have common friends, the opera world is small!
@meganmariehart this is barely, I reside in Yekaterinburg, Russia. yeah, not the best place to live nowadays. but I was born in this city and lived here for almot all my life.
my teacher was Olga Vutiras (uralopera.com/people/olga-vuti…), she is a coloratura in our theater - The Ural Opera Ballet Theater.
the theater had tours over Europe in summer time every year. but now everything went bad, as you can see and musicians also suffer from this events that happen. anyway, all bad things come to an end some day and I hope for the best, that our theater wtill tour again one fine day.
my teacher was Olga Vutiras (uralopera.com/people/olga-vuti…), she is a coloratura in our theater - The Ural Opera Ballet Theater.
the theater had tours over Europe in summer time every year. but now everything went bad, as you can see and musicians also suffer from this events that happen. anyway, all bad things come to an end some day and I hope for the best, that our theater wtill tour again one fine day.
@iron_bug You’re right, I don't think I personally know anyone currently in Yekaterinburg. I looked at the ensemble. But our recent Aida had an Amneris from Moscow, Ramfis from Georgia, Sacerdotessa from Armenia, Amonasro from Greece, Messaggero from Mexico, Faraone from South Korea, Radamès and myself from the US, and the director from Israel. I bet we’re no more than three degrees of separation away from each other because of opera, especially with the Yekaterinburg Opera touring!
@meganmariehart wow! what a geographical variety.
over here we usually have local singers performing. sometimes guest soloists come to play in some spectacle. usually from other Russian cities. and very rarely foreign singers.
the specifics of our theaters that they have very many shows performed simultaneously. as far as I know many theaters in USA give only one opera for some long period. and in our theater every two days they have a different opera. they switch between like 5-6 spectacles during some time and between opera shows they have ballet. and ballet is also different every time. so they have only one day off - Monday. all the over days they give a performance. this is a very busy schedule for musicians, singers and dancers.
over here we usually have local singers performing. sometimes guest soloists come to play in some spectacle. usually from other Russian cities. and very rarely foreign singers.
the specifics of our theaters that they have very many shows performed simultaneously. as far as I know many theaters in USA give only one opera for some long period. and in our theater every two days they have a different opera. they switch between like 5-6 spectacles during some time and between opera shows they have ballet. and ballet is also different every time. so they have only one day off - Monday. all the over days they give a performance. this is a very busy schedule for musicians, singers and dancers.
@meganmariehart the first years I took lessons from Natalya Motolygina-Ryavkina, she was a soprano for Omsk Musical Theater, then for Ural Opera Ballet. now she's not performing and works in some business, also teaching vocal, as far as I know.