Walking home thanks to that little couchfucking eyeliner-wearing fascist twerp and his 40-car motorcade

I have to say that I love that there is no definitive version of Vivaldi's Bajazet and everyone's just doing whatever with the missing arias. I was mostly listening to the Biondi recording (GOAT) in prep and every new piece swapped in by Noally got my head spinning like HELL lol

Absolutely marvellous Andronico from Eva Zaïcik yesterday, and incredible work from Les Accents!

try hating anyone as much as the M*pa press office hates critics <3

*through gritted teeth* At Least It's Not Meli

Based on a six-month investigation, the film "The Price of a Vote" depicts impoverished rural communities where local officials allegedly control jobs, aid, and services in exchange for votes, with claims that up to 600,000 voters across dozens of districts are affected. buff.ly/ivoUCuk 2/6

The thing about Wagner is that he's been dead for one and a half centuries so he's not able to single-handedly, personally fund global hate campaigns with his proceeds bsky.app/profile/dhfe...

this too is a cast

epic little turn-of-the-century casual racism moment on the upcoming Bru Zane piece I see

was painfully unaware that Julie Roset has the most beautiful soprano voice there is youtu.be/KkCnDDe9ces?...

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spent this year turning in such a litany of complaints so far that my editor just wrote back "can you review something that's good"

Neef is on like, Don Giovanni production Number 3 within like five years. like was the Guth really that bad

crazy casting on every secondary/tertiary character

I need to see at least one good Mozart seria performance this year. just one

Konzerthaus 2026/27 subscription notification just landed in my mailbox and almost threw my phone the second I saw Passagierin on the list

wrote about how tristan und isolde is secretly about power rather than love, about a woman rather than a man, and why you should go see it at the Met immediately if you still can. www.late-review.com/p/loves-bad-...

not Habjan again man.

Heras-Casado's lax conducting was way more frustrating than Lauwers' fumbling of the staging. man I know you can do way better

@ loud booer at Clemenza 2nite I hope you stub your toes :)

fork in kitchen situation

pretty thrilling Nozze concert cast at the TCE for what I'm guessing is also Baráth's Contessa debut!

English horn/natural horn double obbligato is my absolute favorite of some of the crazy shit this opera pulls youtu.be/emXSNCoyHHo

Looked at Zurich hotel prices and let out a long laugh

giggling

Saw this blurb on Presto and I had to crack the BBC mag open to check because I could not believe my eyes. Brès-Feuillet is of course a dude and a countertenor. literally it's in his website's header!

Very cool season from the Dutch National Opera! Not a single damn thing I care about

Some slightly more exciting casting/programming than this season so. thanks for that Herr Dorny

Marina Viotti in every single mezzo lead role though the entire season has to be a joke

I was about to start badmouthing the entire season but Semele back first thing in September with an (almost) dream cast!!!

Sierra's debut (?) as Stuarda next season at the BayStaats!!

They blew up USAid and doomed millions to an agonizing death but a video of them being an idiot on camera is causing reputational damage

The entire BayStaats Elektra female cast dropping out one by one is kind of incredible

in my fiction debut I wrote a short story about the small violence of children for @burialmagazine.bsky.social (CW, obvs) burialmagazine.neocities.org/thesandbox

Put on the new Bru Zane recording of de Grandval's Mazeppa and I'm a little taken aback by so much orientalism in under like six minutes in an opera set, nominally, in Ukraine

Karg Elettra is certainly a move

Bernheim debuting (?) Cavaradossi in October at the Staatsoper Berlin

man I need to see Fridman live again youtu.be/ZYm3I_mhr4U

I'm all set <3

ok Bieito calling Idomeneo Mozart's "last piece of Salzburg" is fucking incredible. like not even close

middling reviews of the WSO Clemenza so far. I need you guys to lock tf IN

Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar's singing a gorgeous Rigoletto despite Benini's best attempts

WSO video editor working overtime youtu.be/c9FXPcxnySo

very cool and normal stuff bsky.app/profile/szab...

The chances of your morning walk being interrupted by a Hussar regiment are slim but never zero

KFV Rienzi. what else could I need from life www.semperoper.de/spielplan/st...

In for a good time

still listed for the Don Pasquale run of course, but a fascinating article/fantastic research bsky.app/profile/oper...

the main takeaway here was Samantha Hankey I was not familiar with your game!!!