What kind of monster is operetta from monster high

Since her initial release, Operetta has had other dolls released in different lines in the series, which inlude Dot Dead Gorgeous a school dance line , Roller Maze a budget line of skate dolls , Killer Style a line of dolls featuring the characters wearing previously released character fashion packs , Dance Class, and Picture Day. Her outfits all feature variations of her rockabilly style, with her bright red and black hair being styled in high ponytails, big curly bangs, and suicide curls. This fiery redhead has some more releases in her future, and I look forward to collecting all of them.

They are highly formal people and wish Operetta would follow their example, but do not force her to. Operetta's ' Campus Stroll ' diary The family lived in France until a few years after Operetta's birth and then moved to New Goreleans, where the Phantom took a job on a riverboat opera house Facebook and occasionally did voice coaching. Hickmayleeun At age 16, Operetta would again experience a major move when her father signed up to teach Haunted Music as a night class at Monster High.

Operetta made the best of it, finding herself happy with the change of setting after a while. Operetta's ' Campus Stroll ' diary. It is possible that Operetta's mother is Southeastern America-born, because Operetta has at least one grandmother who lives there. She has a good relationship with her and coincidentally her grandmother is best friends with the grandmother of Honey Swamp.

Welcome to Hauntlywood. There are three things that Operetta likes in people aside from general kindness: sharing cultural ties with her, having a rebellious streak, and being committed to music. Fynn is Operetta's oldest and strongest friend. They taught her how to play guitar and builds her her guitars. Operetta dedicates her diaries to them, though sporadically voices her wish that Fynn would modernize so they can keep direct contact through technology.

Operetta's ' Campus Stroll ' diary Operetta has another old-fashioned friend in Robecca, whom she admires as the first girl to make a name for herself in SKRM.

After a new team was established for Monster High , which Operetta and Robecca were both on, Operetta was the only one to notice Robecca's emotional turmoil over playing her first game since recovering from a century-long deactivation. She took a moment to make sure the other was alright; a gesture that was appreciated. Holt and Deuce are among Operetta's earliest friends at Monster High and for both she briefly had feelings.

In Holt's case, he proved to be too hotheaded for her tastes, but after that rough start they did find room to become close friends as the school's main musicians. In the Spotlight As for Deuce, Operetta met him after deciding to steal him from Cleo as payback for the other's false accusations. What she didn't count on was to instantly hit it off with him. Realizing what kind of relation she was messing with and the pain she'd cause him, she backed off Phantom of the Opry and even did her part supporting them by helping Deuce compose a song for Cleo.

Operetta gained a new friend in Catty Noir when the pop sensation put her career on pause to attend Monster High.

The meeting was mutually exciting, because while Operetta is not a star of Catty's size, Catty's guitar player is a big fan of hers and often would play Operetta's music while touring. Catty Noir's New Scaremester agenda It is presumably through Catty that Operetta also got to befriend Casta Fierce, another big name, but one who is past her high school years. The two girls clicked immediately over their cultural roots as well as the fact their grandmothers are best friends.

Operetta mentions that he can "rock a pompadour while playing a standup bass". There are three boys Operetta has had romantic feelings for and one short-lived crush.

The Stich-uation The first genuine case is Holt Hyde , with whom she went on one date before hitting the brakes. She leaves Paris to get away from Little Billee, and Svengali follows her, establishing a bond and eventually hypnotizing her into a first-class singer, La Svengali, whom he presents as his wife.

Trilby's Parisian friends find out about this five years later by coincidence and equally by coincidence, Svengali dies from a heart attack during a performance of Trilby, leaving the girl confused as to why she's on stage and why the audience expects her to sing well. Her friends take her in, but her time with Svengali has taken its toll on her. She is dying but clarifies that, though she thinks of him as a friend, she never married Svengali and still loves Billee.

When she is shown a portrait of Svengali, she falls back in a trance and sings until her end. Little Billee dies shortly after from a broken heart, never having forgotten Trilby either. Trilby was hugely popular in its time and its effect on popular culture continues to this day. Though items like the Trilby toothpaste and Trilby sausage no longer exist, the community in Florida, Trilby, and the trilby hat still do. With Trilby , hypnotism became a public fear that also persists up to the present and nearly all use of hypnotism to long-term control another in fiction of younger age takes its cue from Trilby.

In fact, current-day alternative means to mind control and mind communication in popular culture or public understanding too ultimately derive from the impact Trilby had.

As well, Svengali is compared in the novel to both a hungry spider and an incubus, and it is theorized Dracula was partially inspired by Svengali after Stoker attended a performance of the originated stage adaption in London.

The two are similar in so far that they are both stereotypes of East European Jewish men with the power to mentally control others and who prey on West European white women. Du Maurier was not the first to write a story about hypnotism nor the first to write about a prima donna or even a prima donna with two suitors of which one wealthy and the other with a leg in occultism, which earlier was the setup of Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in Hypnotism has its roots in animal magnetism , a concept further developed and promoted by Franz Mesmer starting the s.

By , it came to be known as "mesmerism" and while the concept had its enthusiasts, it was also considered quackery. James Braid sought to pull the basic idea into the scientific realm and in he dubbed the new approach "hypnotism", after the Ancient Greek god of sleep.

Due to this relation, the difference between mesmerism and hypnotism is ill-defined and scientists at the time could not agree on definitions, causing the larger public to consider the two the same.

One way to put it is that mesmerism assumes the existence of energies within the body, that can be manipulated with magnetism and electricity and mastered by a sufficiently adapt mind. This mesmerism-master is then able to influence the energy of others through sheer will channeled through the mesmerist's gaze.

Hypnotism is more sound-based and works by suggestion on another who has been brought into a state of pseudo-sleep. Hypnotism explicitly can't make anyone do what they don't want to, but the concept of mesmerism has this as an option in cases of great difference in will power between mesmerist and mesmerized. With the scientific community giving credence to hypnotism, mesmerism shared in popularity. As for the prima donna, this type of character had been popular for the whole of the 19th century, taking over from the castrato of centuries prior.

Like the castrato, the prima donna, while praised for the voice, was considered foremost of deficient gender. Women were not supposed to perform in public or be financially independent, which were respectively associated with sexual liberty and sexual independency and thereby linked the prima donna to the sex worker as had earlier happened to the castrato. This made her a intriguing archetype to explore art but also to keep a hold on the role of women in society.

Early 19th century fiction concerns itself largely with "redeeming" the prima donna by having her return to the life of a respectable woman out of the spotlight. From the s to the s, certain change was brought to this connection by Jenny Lind , who by keeping herself to Christian music and spending a lot of her earnings on charity, managed to be both a prima donna and a "good woman".

Anna, an operatic soprano, left her husband and children in to tour with Bochsa, a harpist and composer who became her manager and lover. It was one of the bigger scandals of its time. Unlike previous stories involving hypnotism, Trilby was a full novel that did not make a mystery out of hypnotism but introduced it early on and commented on all its aspects in the course of the story.

It defined to the public what they should fear. Additionally, it made the victim a "good prima donna", as Trilby's musical career is forced onto her through the use of hypnotism. There are signs of mental mutualism if not identity-fusing between Trilby and Svengali, but he is the one to have initiated the link between them after her rejection and his predatory and parasitic designs dominate the relationship.

Such is their relationship that Trilby dies from exhaustion shortly after Svengali's death, though in a way that intentionally and purposefully mimics the "redeeming" deaths from tuberculosis of the female protagonists of 's The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas, fils and 's Scenes of the Bohemian Life by Henri Murger.

Ergo, what made Du Maurier's story stick was the added layer of helplessness hypnotism brought to the damsel-in-distress scenario. Especially the sexual component of that layer caught on, but the active and passive criminal aspects were understood too.

The gendered nature of the novel's success becomes clear when considering that Arthur Conan Doyle 's novella The Parasite , which features a woman using her hypnotic control to sexually harass a man, did not garner more interest than earlier stories involving non-sexual use of hypnotism. A handful of writers tried their hand at stories more akin to Trilby than merely the use of hypnotism, such as Richard Marsh with his novel The House of Mystery.

In it, the female tragic character, Maud Dorrincourt, the heiress of the Countess of Staines, wishes to become a singer and runs off to make her dream reality. The two are tracked down with the help of Augustus Champnell , Marsh's recurring detective, but Lazarus hypnotically draws out Maud's vitality in retaliation.

Prior to being captured, Lazarus falls from a balcony and dies, leaving Maud withered on the brink of death. She sings a final song and dies. When Burdon angers Haddo, he hypnotizes Dauncey into marrying him and leaves Paris with her. Little by little, her friends come to understand Dauncey did not leave voluntarily with Haddo and that he has intents to murder her for a project of his.

Before action can be taken Haddo performs his ritual, using the death to create four monstrous simulacrums. At the end of the novel, Burdon and his group kill him and burn his house and creations. Of the few look-alike stories, however, the only one with fame of its own similar to, and even surpassing, Trilby is The Phantom of the Opera.

The Phantom of the Opera is a novel written by Gaston Leroux and originally published as a serialization in Le Gaulois starting in and turned into a novel in Though promoted by Leroux as based on true events, which ensured better sales, it is not. Most adaptions of the novel specify it to take place in the Late s or s, depending on the adaption, because the main location of the story, the Palais Garnier , was built from to and the titular character had at least a few years of history with the building prior to the events of the novel.

The Phantom of the story is a man with a deformity that makes him look like a living corpse, which has worked against him all his life. After a youth of acquiring many traits that help him keep others at a distance, he settles as a haunting entity in the Palais Garnier and uses his legend to acquire food and keep certain control of the building, its performances, and its staff.

Christine has another suitor, though: the wealthy Raoul de Chagny , to whom she returns the feelings. Noticing this, the Phantom grows forceful and resorts to abduction, murder, and blackmail to at least claim her physically, though he has no sexual interest in her.

Despite the predicament, Christine feels sorry for the Phantom and, when she accepts to stay with him in return for the lives of Raoul and the opera visitors, embraces her role as the Phantom's wife. She does not shun his affections as everyone else the Phantom has ever known did, starting with his mother, and this moves the Phantom to let her go and marry Raoul.

The Phantom dies soon afterwards, having predicted and accepted his end while Christine was with him. Despite being a highly popular story these days with plenty of adaptions , the novel was not a success initially. By coincidence, Leroux had the opportunity to meet Carl Laemmle , the president of Universal Pictures , when he was on vacation in Paris in After a comment by Laemmle that he admired the Palais Garnier, Leroux handed him a copy of his novel.

Laemmle was sufficiently impressed by the story and its accompanying illustrations that he bought the film rights, with the aim to cast Lon Chaney as the Phantom. The movie was released in and a moderate success, helping along the development of the Universal Horror series of films. A sequel was planned, to be titled The Return of the Phantom , but because Lon Chaney was unavailable, Universal Pictures settled on a re-issue with sound of The Phantom of the Opera in Another film adaption was created in , this time with Claude Rains as the Phantom Chaney died thirteen years prior.

While the took a small amount of liberty with the story, and is generally considered the most faithful adaption of the novel, the version changes enough that it borders on being a new story altogether. Nonetheless, it made use of the same sets as the movie version did and it stands out as the only Universal Horror movie to win an Oscar.

As with the version, a sequel was planned. This sequel, The Climax , actually was produced in , but during production it went from a sequel to a story on its own. While meeting him at first was only to get back at Cleo for thinking wrong of her, Operetta finds she and Deuce have a lot in common.

After learning how deeply he feels for Cleo, and coming to care for Deuce herself, she does stop her vendetta. Helping him express his feelings for Cleo through music, she starts to truly be his friend as well as put her anger towards Cleo in the past.

In his Monster High site description, Operetta mentions that he can rock a pompadour while playing a standup bass. He seems very inspired by Elvis Presley, just like Operetta. He is combing his hair which means he may be able to use his legs to do other human activities. According to Holt's 'Basic' diary, she went on a brief date with him, but that ended when he got them kicked out of the club. In the webisode "Phantom of the Opry", she decided to steal Deuce from Cleo in revenge for earlier false accusations.

Romance could have occurred between the two if Deuce hadn't already found Cleo to be his significant other, but that is something that will always remain unknown.

The two have since become very good friends though. Same if she seem to be just friend with, Johnny Spirit she seem also to have feeling for him, but she never revealed it. Though in 'Haunted' she and Johnny Spirit seemed to have a more of a relationship than just friends. October 23, Mattel requests the trademark for Operetta. October ,. September 29, Operetta makes her 2D cartoon debut in "Hiss-teria". September 29, Operetta's profile is published on the Monster High website.

October 23, In response to questions about Operetta not being French, part of her student file is released on the Monster High Facebook account. Late January, Operetta's first doll is released as part of the 'Campus Stroll' series. This website saves cookies to your browser in order to improve your online experience and show you personalized content. Read our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy to get more information and learn how to set up your preferences.

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