Which Trouser Role Are You?
A hilarious little quiz for every mezzo-in-pants lover and every other opera dyke. I encountered it by chance while practicing my non-existent Chinese over at douban.com. Just click the image above to get to the quiz.
So, are you more an Arsace or more a Cherubino? Or an Orfeo? – Just the right thing to ask yourself (and to post the result in the comments afterwards!) while counting down the hours. Or setting apart the grapes, since we do have a half-Spanish New Year’s Eve here, after all.
I ended up being Giulio Cesare as sung by Tatiana Troyanos. Heh. I definitely take that as a good omen for 2009!
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I also propose dissociative personality disorders as in being allowed to pick more than just one. Which made me end up once as the Countess Geschwitz and then as Prince Orlofsky – just so you know, I blame the vodka question!
But anyway: Es lebe Champagner der Erste! - which does, of course, sound so much better when Malena Ernman sings it:
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Happy New Year, everyone!
I took the quiz twice and got Cherubino both times. Now I feel quite dejected.
I’ll try the quizz. Meanwhile, happy new 2009 for you and Ngfd. Best wishes!
I got Cherubino. D:
I got Sesto! Sung by Kasarova! Whoot!
Haha. Great blog you have, dear. Keep it up! I’ve been reading for quite some time now and i must say i quite enjoy it!
Cheers,
Phantomunmasked
Giulio Cesare on the first try, Countess Geschwitz on the second: a promising start for the new year! Although I do object to being forced to actually choose between either ‘refined older women’ or ‘scheming, amoral temptresses’ – at the very least, there should be an overlapping category….
I got the Komponist from R.Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos.
“You’re endearingly arrogant, and arrogantly endearing. You live in a state of utter seriousness with intermittent transports of rapture. You think that, by virtue of your own high-minded genius, you’re immune to the worldly wiles of women, but… don’t you be so sure.”
uh… I think it’s true… 8(
Hmm, Prince Orlofsky… Would like to blame it on the vodka but suspect it’s just my traditional New Year ennui. And speaking of New Year – hope 2009 brings you an end to the PhD torture (I remember it well, it does end, honestly!), a return of Marina and Esther and many happy nights at the opera. Thanks for your wonderful site.
Tried it three times. Cherubino each time. Is it a good thing that I don’t know who he is?
Ok, ok. I looked Cherubino up, but was too bored, bored, bored to read the whole wiki synopsis. (Yawn) I’d rather be chasing women. Wait! No! Song! What, there are women?!? No, no,…Uh…Er…song? (And I did vaguely remember the topsy-turviness of The Marriage of Figaro, but will need to sit down and read that synopsis…some day!)
@Meena: ah yes, Cherubino. I think it is the lesbian default setting. Definitely a good place to end up: the one who tends to fall for refined, and often unattainable women and is dedicating themselves a 150% to courting them. I don’t think there are too many lesbians out there who will not recognize themselves in that description, at least partially.
Hi! I wrote the quiz years back, and I’m delighted to have stumbled upon your blog! Since I found (and have since married) my own smokin’ hot mezzo in trousers, I’ve had less time to troll the internet obsessively looking for pictures of same, so I’ve just added you to my RSS Reader and am very much looking forward to exploring the archives.
(When I take the quiz myself, I get Sesto, despite the nickname.)
@Quinquin: then many thanks for the delightful quiz! It does show some in-depth study of the subject
Welcome around, and I hope you’ll find a read or two to enjoy on these pages.
i got “You’re Count Octavian Maria Ehrenretch Bonaventura Fernand Hyacinth Rofrano! Impetuous and fickle but a nobleman through and through. You fall in love at the drop of a handkerchief, and you’re hopelessly naive about the labyrinths of the human heart, especially your own. Still, you’re young and gallant and you look damn good in silver breeches. in your spare time, you enjoy dressing like a chambermaid and playing dirty tricks on lecherous old men.”
. Must be from my reply of liking dressing in drag for fun 
I got Octavian as well, which didn’t surprise me too much after the first question
It’s a bit of a pity, though, that there aren’t that many trouser roles for soprano – the only one I can think of offhand is Oscar from the Ballo in Maschera.