Articles by Antoni Matteo Garcia

A Tribute to Christmas Who?

I am far from the biggest Spongebob Squarepants fan in the world, but this Christmas special has left me with warmth, euphoria, gratitude, joy, and the most blessed holiday season in spite of these troubling times. Enjoy my tribute and let me know your opinions as well.

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A Tribute to Christmas Every Day!

Let’s all give a hip, hip, hurray to a Fairly OddParents Christmas Special that I not only consider to be my personal favorite one, but also one of the best ones and the most genuinely hilarious. Sit back, relax, and enjoy my tribute.

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A Tribute to Chuckie’s Wonderful Life

Reigning supreme as one of my favorite animated homages to It’s a Wonderful Life is Rugrats’ very own Chuckie’s Wonderful Life with its grim portrayal of the Chuckie-less alternate universe and its home-hitting message. Enjoy my tribute and let me know your opinions as well.

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A Lookback on Johnny’s Guardian Angel

Before It’s a Wishful Life’s mean-spiritedness, there was Johnny’s Guardian Angel with its surprising amount of genuineness, heart, and indubitable hilarity. Enjoy my lookback on this rather affectionate parody of It’s a Wonderful Life done in the style of Johnny Bravo.

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A Slam at It’s a Wishful Life

This pathetic excuse of an It’s a Wonderful Life parody made me want to kick Jorgen von Strangle’s family jewels as a 13-year-old approaching the seventh grade and it made me want to do it again as a 28-year-old university student and content creator. Enjoy my rant on one of my least Fairly OddParents episodes of all time. Special acknowledgment has to go to Cookie-Lovey for also bringing up that plot hole regarding Chip Skylark, Tootie, Mark Chang, and The Crimson Chin and how they would have reacted if Timmy were gone. If you want to read up on that, please do so. https://www.deviantart.com/cookie-lovey/art/FOP-It-s-a-Wishful-Life-741792361

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My Opera Dream Casts: The Bel Canto Edition

Hey, everybody, Antoni here with a set of operatic dream casts I have in store for you. For someone who has been a huge aficionado of opera ever since I was nine years old, I thought it would be fun if I came up with a set of dream casts of twelve of my favorite operas. What better place to start than with some of my favorite Bel Canto operas if I were to travel back to the 2000s. This is also my contribution for this year’s Red Ribbon Reviewers month.   Gaetano Donizetti’s Anna Bolena Anna Bolena- Anna-Kristiina Kaappola Giovanna Seymour- Nancy Fabiola Herrera Smeton- Christine Rice Enrico VIII- Jaco Huijpen Riccardo Percy- Roberto Alagna Lord Rochefort- Graeme Broadbent Sir Hervey- Matthew Beale   Gaetano Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda Elisabetta I- Ruxandra Donose Maria Stuarda- Anna-Kristiina Kaappola Anna Kennedy- Valentina Kutzarova Talbot- Franz Hawlata Leicester- Roberto Alagna Cecil- Sebastian Holecek   Gaetano Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux Roberto Devereux- Roberto Alagna Elisabetta I- Anna-Kristiina Kaappola Duca di Nottingham- Carlos Alvarez Sara- Stephanie Blythe Gualtiero Raleigh- Giovanni Furlanetto Lord Cecil- Colin Judson   Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor Lucia Ashton- Marlis Petersen Edgardo Ravenswood- Paul Groves Enrico Ashton- Lado Ataneli Raimondo Bidebent- Hans Peter König Arturo Bucklaw- Chad Shelton Normanno- Saverio Fiore Alisa- Atala Schöck   Gaetano Donizetti’s Linda di Chamounix Linda- Marlis Petersen Carlo- Paul Groves Pierrotto- Elizabeth Bishop Maddalena- Michaela Schuster Prefetto- Carlo Colombara Marchese di Boisfleury- Maurizio Muraro Antonio- Carlos Alvarez L’Intendante- Chad Shelton   Vincenzo Bellini’s Norma Norma- Luba Orgonasova Pollione- Antonio Nagore Oroveso- Roberto Scandiuzzi Adalgisa- Zheng Cao Flavio- Will Hartmann Clotilde- Patricia Risley   Vincenzo Bellini’s La Sonnambula Amina- Elena Mosuc Elvino- Ramon Vargas Conte Rodolfo- Roberto Scandiuzzi Teresa- Iris Vermilion Lisa- Dawn Kotoski Alessio- Michele Pertusi Notaio- Kevin Conners   Vincenzo Bellini’s I Capuleti e I Montecchi Giulietta- Natalie Dessay Romeo- Beatrice Uria Monzon Tebaldo- Roberto Sacca Capellio- Albert Dohmen Lorenzo- Hao Jiang Tian   Vincenzo Bellini’s I Puritani Elvira- Mary Dunleavy Arturo- Marcelo Alvarez Riccardo- Roberto Servile Gualtiero- Clive Bayley Giorgio- Giacomo Prestia Bruno- Matthew Polenzani Enrichetta- Stephanie Novacek   Gioacchino Rossini’s Semiramide Semiramide- Hellen Kwon Arsace- Sonia Ganassi Azema- Laura Claycomb Idreno- Chris Merritt Mitrane- Jeffrey Francis Assur- John-Paul Bogart Oroe- Kristinn Sigmundsson L’Ombra di Nino- Walter Fink   Gioacchino Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia Figaro- Paolo Gavanelli Almaviva- Roberto Sacca Rosina- Natalie Dessay Dottor Bartolo- Gilles Cachemaille Don Basilio- Kristinn Sigmundsson Berta- Jadwiga Rappé Fiorello- Christian Gerhaher Ufficiale- Detlef Roth   Gioacchino Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims Madama Cortese- Klara Kolonits Corinna- Diana Damrau Marchesa Melibea- Kate Aldrich Contessa di Folleville- Anna Christy Conte di Libenskof- Michael Schade Cavalier Belfiore- José Bros Don Luigino- Steve Davislim Don Alvaro- Andrea Concetti Antonio- Carlos Alvarez Don Profondo- Hans Peter König Lord Sidney- Carlo Colombara Don Prudenzio- Stephen Milling Barone di Trombonok- Maurizio Muraro Zefirino- Dietmar Kerschbaum Gelsomino- Peter Marsh Maddalena- Stephanie d’Oustrac Modestina- Ailish Tynan Delia- Sabina Puertolas   So, fellow opera fans, these are my dream casts for my favorite Bel Canto operas if ever I wanted to go back in time to the 2000s. Please let me know if you also have a dream cast for these twelve Bel Canto operas. Happy Holidays and stay safe, everybody.

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