@snowythepyro.bsky.social one for you from yesterday’s Lord (Lady) Mayor’s Show

Especially for you @rasalmon.bsky.social

#BBCproms reunion! 🐻 🐑 @hungarianbear.bsky.social @beerbear21.bsky.social & Basil

Double #RBOromeo 🩰 ⚔️ Saturday

Flex those mental muscles 💪

Pelicans are on pause for the time being 😢 #birdflu

Repeat after me … 🐑

Greetings from Amsterdam 🌷

This is the autocorrect aftermath of the @regentsopera.bsky.social Ring cycle 🤣🤣🤣

#JohnTomisGod doing the conga is not what I expected in #RBOfesten

On that happy note … enjoy your workday!

Bravo @regentsopera.bsky.social for the epic Ring cycle 👏. Not a weak link in the cast and a unique opportunity to be really close to the action. If you can make cycle 2 starting next Sunday, go!

Surprise of the day: the unexpected return of calendar conversations 📅 🥳

Thanks for the Latin lesson this morning, Caffè Nero

#RBOonegin last night with debuts by the 3 male leads 👏

Sadler’s Wells East is open to the public! Performances start in February.

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

My 2024 highlights: 1. Seeing my piano god Murray Perahia live again after 10 or so years - thank you @wigmore-hall.bsky.social 🎹🤍🖤 2. Big birthday & lavish bday trip thanks to Mr BBB 😘 3. The Royal Ballet / Sarasota Ballet Ashton festival 🩰 Hoping 2025 will be even better!

#RBOcinderella double show day 7 Dec with plenty of role debuts ✨🌼🌸🍁❄️🩰

Sean Rafferty’s final BBCR3 show is on now

This year's Christmas Quiz is here! Get yourself a cup of tea, a pencil and a notepad, and enjoy puzzling over this year's word connections board. johnrutter.com/news-feature...

Letter to The Times reproduced here

A little way off, but the artwork has just arrived for this delicious evening. Can't wait!

Our first Fauré into Bluesky...

Happy 1. Advent 🕯️

Word of the day is a favourite, from old Scots. To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.

Much hilarity over dinner when I explain the traditional German wine bottle shape “Bocksbeutel” to Mr BBB and the Wiki entry example is from the vineyard we were sampling 🍷 😂

A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.

Travelling on the Mildmay line … sounds like I should be heading to Glyndebourne rather than Dalston!

In honour of Puccini’s centenary, I offer these glimpses into his relationship with Ricordi (displayed in the museum in Lucca). Exhibit A: the Latin knock-knock joke. Exhibit B: well, at least if you end up in prison you might get some work done.

Au revoir #RBOhoffmann

Final dip into the weird & wacky world of #RBOhoffmann

One way of reducing net migration would be to encourage more Brits to study or work abroad 🙄

Hello 👋 We're the official University of Oxford account! We're trying things out here so feel free to follow us for information and news about life at Oxford. In the meantime, here are some blue skies over Oxford 🦋

Something a bit different tonight

Fun evening at the Ballet Association with Royal Ballet Principal Yasmine Naghdi who isn’t just an eloquent speaker but also a gifted mimic 😆

Congratulations @prommerscharities.bsky.social on raising a fantastic amount of £98,547.46 to support musical charities this year! 👏👏👏 #BBCproms

Today is the deadline for singers to apply to join the wonderful National Opera Studio in 2025-26! All the information you need is here: www.nationaloperastudio.org.uk/training/you...

Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed. (Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).

So nice to be on a platform where one isn’t bombarded with ads

Hello @wigmore-hall.bsky.social !

Frauenliebe not by Schumann @ Wigmore Hall

Hello everyone! 👋🏻