Hi friends! 💖IT'S MY BIRTHDAY so as a birthday present, please drop your favourite sparkly emoji in your comments! 🥰 And again: SO sorry about the audio! Also, remember: this is such an incomplete list! These are just some of the easiest, simplest, cheapest ones we could think of! A complete list would take an hour or more. Drop other ideas in the comments, too!
@StadinBasso4 ай бұрын
At Savonlinna Opera Festival, I was a stunt double for one of the performers suffering from double vision due to brain damage. There was a scene where he and some others were going to do a parade walk in capes and masks, so he had no way to walk in sync with the rest of the group on that uneven medieval castle floor. There are all kinds of ways to make it work. Thank you for another informative and fun video. I have a little opera collective of my own now, and I hope we can at least take some of these improvements with us.
@robinhahnsopran4 ай бұрын
That's amazing - so excited to hear you may be able to use some of these! :) And that you were able to make it work for that other performer, too - it always turns out that there are ways to make it work, if people put their minds and hearts to it!
@StadinBasso4 ай бұрын
@@robinhahnsopran Openness about disabilities and willingness to work around them is the key. Last season at Svenska Teatern in Helsinki, we had a play all in Swedish sign language, audio narrated in Finnish, surtitles in Swedish and Finnish, the mute and blind had all their personal interpreters. In the lobby we had miniatures of the sets, and dolls wearing stage costumes, so the blind could touch and feel what everything looks like. Happiest theater guests ever 😊 ❤️
@brendanmooney76074 ай бұрын
Happy Birthday (as of upload date)! Here, have some sparkly emojis: 🎆🌠🎇And some tea for you and Jacqui: 🫖☕ And a bird for Borb: 🐦
@robinhahnsopran4 ай бұрын
Ahhhh, an embarrassment of emoji riches xD Thank you so, so much!
@justineemili4 ай бұрын
Happy Birthday from Pittsburgh! 🤩😷👋
@russellhirsch91984 ай бұрын
Adorable air purifier! And Happy Birthday!!
@russellhirsch91984 ай бұрын
Also BORB!!
@robinhahnsopran4 ай бұрын
Thank yooooou! :)
@rayati22844 ай бұрын
Yay, you're back! Another thing I would add would be to be respectful of people's specific needs, particularly if they have a non-physical or at least "invisible" disability (e.g. autism). TL;DR, don't be a meanie! I had a screaming meltdown yesterday, and I'm still really scared of ruining my vocal cords, though these happen rarely for me. Anyway, happy birthday! Also: the return of Borb!
@robinhahnsopran4 ай бұрын
Absolutely! Hard agree: every space should be working to create a culture where disabled people feel safe when having a flare, episode, or anything else! So important :) Also: thank yoooou!
@SewBiased4 ай бұрын
Me: Scooting chair all over stage and sitting in every rehearsal. "I live here now." Also, HAPPY BERFDAY!!!!!
@robinhahnsopran4 ай бұрын
lol truuuuuu :D Also, thank yooou!
@LeBasfondMusic4 ай бұрын
HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY
@robinhahnsopran4 ай бұрын
Eeee thank you!
@voxborealis9724 ай бұрын
Happy Birthday from Sweden!!
@robinhahnsopran4 ай бұрын
Thank you so much! Always happy to chat about opera and accessibility :)
@thetoycollectorofseville64284 ай бұрын
Have you tried that opera ice cream truck idea yet?
@robinhahnsopran4 ай бұрын
Not yet! Still love it, though :P
@laprimanerda73334 ай бұрын
@@robinhahnsopranIs this idea discussed in a video? Because I’m now dying of curiosity.
@ludovico68904 ай бұрын
Long time no see.
@robinhahnsopran4 ай бұрын
Glad to be back! :)
@Fira219 күн бұрын
*singsongs* Iiiii wouldn't be doing music/shows still if not for the less-dense rehearsal schedules 🎶 (at first due to needing to work, and now due to general dipped energy levels)
@robinhahnsopran9 күн бұрын
Right?! It's genuinely amazing how much more accessible the arts can be just with a few more days in between rehearsals!
@kagitsune3 ай бұрын
More great reasons for more accessible opera spaces: lots of fans are elderly!! Which comes with lots of new disability and immune-compromising.
@robinhahnsopran3 ай бұрын
This, so much! 💚 Making space for the older folks we know love opera means making the space more accessible! You're so right :)