was looking up "voi che sapete" performed by trebles out of curiosity and saw lots of comments like this under multiple videos and i dont get how someone could get into something so fuckin niche like opera and lack basic media literacy?

(the character of Cherubino being obviously a woman in drag is in fact the point. Beaumarchais writes specifically he must be played by a *beautiful* woman -- ie, conspicuously feminine. half the jokes around the character make no sense otherwise)

something I keep seeing in English language stories set in Spanish speaking settings is substituting various words for their equivalent in Spanish, which is always really jarring because if I already understand these characters to be speaking Spanish and then they literally speak Spanish then what the fuck am I to make of that? They spoke ultra Spanish?

oh i see