already loving every awful memeing attempt opera houses put out for Valentine's Day but Salzburg pulling up both an Idomeneo/Ilia and an Idamante/Elettra pic for their haul is extra special

I don't think I'm allowed to defend my thesis with "yeah bro whatever lol" but like. it will be the undercurrent

brand new Lise Liebestod just dropped youtu.be/ZFfCN6ONLuI

Once more on Benamor, auf Englisch this time 😜💃

György Kurtág awarded honorary doctorate by the Liszt Academy bachtrack.com/news-gyorgy-...

4500 characters into the Orlinski bashing. Sorry to this man

Singing Benamor's praises @theateranderwien.bsky.social www.prae.hu/article/1456...

going into shock when I see that I'm still getting paid for a freelance review

Italy lobbing curveballs at me at previously unimaginable speed

so awkward for JJO to be singing next to Taylor. like that's a VOICE

Western soloists looove to jam out to a good iron clap

holy SHIT, BETH TAYLOR!!!!!!!!!

BENAMOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

new Kosky Ariadne in Vienna??

Passionately love opera seria until I see the 6pm starting time for Giulio Cesare

I've turned the corner on Baráth's Sesto on the Curtis Cesare - still missing some vehemency but the baby voice *is* fitting for the character who's supposed to be a kid. Also really stands out next to voices like Lemieux, Gauvin, and Basso

the eternal question: should you title your review as a niche pun on a '60s Czechoslovak comedy revizoronline.com/leo-delibes-...

PAÍS DEL SOL!!!!

If there's no DVD release of Pablo Luna's Benamor dir. Christof Loy I'll cry and cry and cry

Ain't she a beauty

Eine männliche Figur nähert sich dem Tal!

Singer, Ada Hecht was born #OTD in 1896. Before WWII she sang as a coloratura soprano with the Vienna Folk Opera. After failed attempts to emigrate to the US, she was deported on the last transport from Terezin to Auschwitz where she died on 30 Oct 1944. search.cjh.org/perma...

my most niche post yet but I do wholeheartedly wish that houses that stage Die Passagierin actually adhered to the score and let the Chaconne be played by the violins together rather than as a solo. I understand the logic of that choice, it's just even more effective when played as written

How does the main opera company of the entire UK not have a cover on hand. or a phone line to the two other tenors featured in this run bsky.app/profile/ianm...

Can you join me in helping Juan reunite with his family? They’re being connected with a bond fund, but it’s $12,000 and they’re already struggling to survive.

Bartók Spring fest inviting both the English Baroque Soloists AND JEG with his new ensembles is an incredible move

wrote an essay about the leitmotif rabbit hole and why 8/10 times i don't like it wehwalt.net/leitmotifs

Meli wobbles so horribly on "Pietà, pietà, gran Dio" in Sento avvampar that it does almost inspire me to beg for divine mercy

Love the bit in Boccanegra where Fiesco is like "Amelia's not a born Grimaldi....... she's a common-born adoptee" and Adorno goes "doesn't matter 🥰🥰🥰" and the next act Amelia comes in with the update of 🫤 So, About My Questionable Origins,

Thankfully Nozze the next day was considerably better but man, what a letdown bachtrack.com/review-mozar...

Diese starke neue Recherche von Yasemin Said @taz.de zum seit Jahrzehnten von der extremen Rechten genutzten ehemaligen #HASAG- Außenlager des KZ #Buchenwald in #Leipzig zeigt neue, teilweise bizarre Details: Dazu ein kleiner Thread aus meiner Perspektive. 1/x

Serena Saenz's Deh vieni, non tardar.......... Whew

I know she's literally sung this at Salzburg but holy shit Adriana González

Clarinetist warming up with Parto. I'm about to climb over the railing

7am up on the Neue Mozart Ausgabe getting pissed at Daniel Heartz for calling S'io non posso infantile

What is it about Idomeneo that flips a switch in directors' brains into Senseless Flop ONLY

The ole reliable

Once again, beautiful weather in Vienna <3

haterism! revizoronline.com/christina-pl...

the English-langauge press for the BayStaats Semele could not have been so meager that this is the pull quote you choose for your advertisement

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Some festival should do a Trojans cycle of Troyens Part I > Ermione > Trojans Part II > Elektra

Fassi's Figaro being panned.... not my little guy :(

mezzo on the floor alert

Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

Judging every opera house's website design very hard based on how far I have to scroll down/how much I have to click through on a production's page to see the cast

the Lord Almighty does NOT want me to find a single full score of Jean de Nivelle

announcing wehwalt.net

so glad one of the press photos for Jean de Nivelle got snapped after Vashegyi broke his baton on his music stand. that went FLYING