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WSO premieres this season

Train 45 minutes late, sweating like a pig, caught the tail end of a rainshower but I am undeterred

I have to earnestly ask: what on Earth is up with Köln hotel prices

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My review of the @theateranderwien.bsky.social's outstanding Stiffelio is now up! Vasily Barkhatov is climbing fast to a top spot among favorite directors. www.prae.hu/article/1475...

I am a sucker for stage spectacle except for the Tcherniakov Onegin windows blowing wide open during the climax of the Letter Scene type of the deal. and not the Zeff Turandot

Listening to the Bru Zane Silver recording and I'm trying to find a diplomatic way of saying they just need to find a better singer for the dramatic mezzo roles pronto

Ádám Fischer using "insallah" in an interview unprompted took me tf out

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👋👋👋 (If you've ever wanted to see a tenor's dick get symbolically cut off after two and a half hours of buffoonery, this is the show for you!)

Other than, uh, obvious contemporary relevance, what's up with the evident resurgence of The Greek Passion on the opera stages

balm to my ears youtu.be/lSfGyQxdfgE

Imho, Luisa Tetrazzini was one of the greatest vocalists of all time, and certainly the greatest coloratura soprano on record. Despite the primitive sonics, she is absolutely individual and unique in everything she does. One Ponselle, one Callas, one Tetrazzini.

what does Emma Dante do successfully

Of two minds about Dortmund's Mazeppa - but genuinely very cool to be able to see this on stage!

just once in my lifetime I'd like for a countertenor to be asked to expand upon what they actually mean by gender fluidity when they praise Our Current Age of Gender Fluidity that allows them to take on male roles solely and explicitly written for women

NEED a Don Carlo(s) from Rhorer tho

very politely enthusiastic reception from the TadW audience for what was an absolutely thrilling evening

Final leg of the tour

vale, Flott. 🕊️ Dame Felicity Lott (1947-2026) youtu.be/9pO-zbfpXKc?...

not only does Fassbaender's Finta Giardiniera have the prompter use a mole puppet, it also takes a bow along with the rest of the cast. AND Belfiore's dick gets chopped off in the finale. what else can you possibly need from a staging

Alright then!

It's not a Deutsche Bahn journey until I have to sprint the entire length of a train

In good spirit should I look up where Grandval stood on Dreyfus

I hear Lyon is dazzling this time of year

that Verdi guy sure could write a religious invocation + soprano's soulful emotional outpouring combo youtu.be/_Nw7Cpz_yic

After 12 years, the EU flag is back on Hungary’s Parliament building — the new Speaker’s very first decision. A happy Schuman Day indeed.

Norma duets in recital in the year of our Lord 2026 to this exact choreography youtu.be/bmtP9HheyS8

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You know the Verdi is getting good when the row of critics is taking turns wiping their eyes

My usual litany of complaints about the Hungarian State Opera's performance of Kratzer's Fidelio, or, some regime changes can't come swiftly enough www.prae.hu/article/1471...

so tickled every time an A-list soprano pulls up on Parterre

oh my haterade for the WSO Clemenza is also up now revizoronline.com/mozart-titus...

Funniest fucking thing ever happened (got asked, with earnest enthusiasm, if I enjoy classical music too after doing a lecture on [social-cultural history of classical musical subject])

il licenziamento di Beatrice Venezi in diretta durante il Lohengrin, raccontato da Elf, e il video del teatro alla notizia, resistenza e liberazione www.youtube.com/shorts/1iSzM...

so who's gonna sing Sesto at the Liceu once Crebassa inevitably cancels

I love bad stage/publicity photos. Is Monika Rittershaus a joke to you people

My review of the Les Accents' concert of Vivaldi's Tamerlano is now up! revizoronline.com/julija-lezsn...

Listening to the new La Calisto recording and Théo Imart's first entrance was so crazy beautiful it stopped me in my tracks

I'm yet to hear a Leonore who doesn't stumble over the "Dies Stückchen Brot" line

lebrecht up posting from 1830

putting the Welser-Möst Leonore 3 back on to wash yesterday out from my system

Zurich's current Vitellia in a C-list role is my highlight (also Ortscheidt <3)

lol

reading Proust on my commute is great. guffawing at 8 in the morning

Lombardi and Verdi are pretty much a match made in heaven

least problematic bel canto opera

Magyar starting to take swings at Ókovács the girls are FIGHTINGGGGGGGG

Simon/Amelia recognition scene, Wotan's farewell..... much to think about