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Is "Flüfferdämmerung" the first Furry opera?​

I caught this clip floating around the website formerly known as Twitter, accompanied by the caption, "in one million years you won't guess what this video sounds like."

And that was how I discovered the existence of the world's first (as far as I'm aware) all-Furry opera.

Further research led to discover that Flüfferdämmerung, as it's known, had its world premiere in June 2024 at the NordicFuzzCon in Sweden. It is indeed a full opera, which you can watch on YouTube. As far as I can tell, it basically follows the story of Ragnarok. And to be fair, the Asgardian pantheon would absolutely approve of befurr'ed humans singing of their great deeds.

No word yet on whether Flüfferdämmerung gets another production, let alone an international tour.

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

I want to be part of the play. I will even bring my own hunting rifle

 

[Dr. Ricearoni]

"first furry opera?"
Cats is RIGHT THERE

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

"first furry opera?"
Cats is RIGHT THERE

That's a musical, not exactly an opera

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

It won't be the last.

 

[Audit]

This "opera" was mid. They started singing disney songs and broadway half way through. It's terrible in so many unique ways beyond fursuits.

 

[Lurkin' 'n' Jerkin']

Fursuits would lend themselves better to kabuki theater and pantomime than opera. Nevertheless, I suppose I should applaud these furries' efforts to do something, anything not related to yiff.

 

[Fatsuit Shinji]

I want to be part of the play. I will even bring my own hunting rifle

Is that "hunting rifle" belt or chain fed?

 

[Jarl Varg]

I want to be part of the play. I will even bring my own hunting rifle

I'd go, and love to be a part of the show!

 

[Canuck Breaker]

As far as I can tell, it basically follows the story of Ragnarok.

I would assume so, as that's the premise of Götterdämmerung by Wagner.

I'm not sure of the specific scene from the clip, but there's a good chance they changed it to make it gay.

 

[Procopius]

This "opera" was mid. They started singing disney songs and broadway half way through. It's terrible in so many unique ways beyond fursuits.

It's just the sort of bland concert that takes place in the average German town a couple of weekends every summer. Bits of opera that most people vaguely recognize with a couple of more recent tunes thrown in. Only this time they're all wearing the skins of dead teddy bears and the songs are interspersed by some dull mythology with lots of weird sounding names.

1:30-4:30 is What Power Art Thou from Purcell's King Arthur. It was reworked by Michael Nyman as part of the soundtrack for Peter Greenaway's A Zed & Two Noughts.
5:20-10:15 is O du, mein holder Abendstern from Wagner's Tannhäuser
10:50-14:20 is De' miei bollenti spiriti from Verdi's La Traviata.
15:00-19:10 is Sibillar gli angui d'Aletto from Handel's Rinaldo
20:00-22:30 is Giants in the Sky from Sondheim's Into the Woods.
23:10-27:30 is Una Furtiva Lagrima from Donizetti's L'elisir D'amore
28:15-34:150 is Heaven's Light from Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Alan Menken followed directly by Hellfire from the same.
No idea what the music is from about 39:15, but if you only watch one bit make it this one. It's a free style dance directly inspired by the landlord in The Big Lebowski. Fat, greasy-haired bloke thinks he's Nureyev. The pas de deux with the lanky twink from 41:00 onwards is great as neither have the abdominal strengrh (nor the training) for the moves they're trying to pull off.
44:50-49:30 is All I Ask of You from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera
49:30-54:00 is Leb wohl du kühnes herrliches Kind from Wagner's Die Walkure

 

[Positron]

Purcell

Henry Purcell. That brings back memories.

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