Can I like that photo very much without coming across as VERY creepy? Do I get some indulgence points for it being After-Halloween-Day - which I don’t give a toss about, but that’s nobody’s business :D

★★★★ Photography all over the town: Photo Oxford 2025 ranges over the genre in a most satisfactory way, finds @billknight.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/...

Came back early from Dublin to see how marvellous mezzo Niamh O'Sullivan fared in her first Carmen. Voice often lost in the Coliseum vasts and wide-open big stage, but dramatically perfect. So many good shots by @billknight.bsky.social for @theartsdesk.bsky.social; hard to choose.

@billknight.bsky.social, who takes wonderful photographs of opera productions, inter alia, for @theartsdesk.bsky.social, came round to document the compelling horror of the fire in my flat, before the clear-up begins. Which it still hasn't, after five weeks. We kick and prod the insurers daily.

A few more snaps from Figaro. I feel like a wedding photographer...

So many classy pleasures in Mariame Clément's new Figaro at Glyndebourne, with a splendid cast led by Louise Alder and Huw Montague Rendall, but the conducting throws a few rocks in the way. Otherwise, sheer delight. theartsdesk.com/opera/le-noz...

Details from Cabaret l'Enfer at the Royal Opera production of Faust

Read Richard Fairman's review in @financialtimes.com of Parsifal at Glyndebourne www.ft.com/content/e9d7...

Read Richard Fairman's review in @financialtimes.com of Die Walkure at the Royal Opera www.ft.com/content/a577...

Read @davidnice.bsky.social from @theartsdesk.bsky.social on a thrilling Die Walküre at The Royal Opera House www.theartsdesk.com/opera/die-wa... More snaps below

Do go and see Charles Court Opera's Magic Flute at Wilton's Music Hall.

Read @davidnice.bsky.social from @theartsdesk.bsky.social on Mary Queen of Scots at English National Opera see theartsdesk.com/opera/mary-q... snaps here

I took this picture in 2013 as part of my exhibition The Refugee's Gift. Hasan has been in my thoughts in the last few days. I hope he has been able to find his family.

Read David Nice [email protected] on Pirates of Penzance at English National Opera. He liked it. More snaps below www.theartsdesk.com/opera/pirate...

Here's a snap from the current production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance at English National Opera. The Pirate King (John Savournin) and Ruth (Gaynor Keeble) are discussing a paradox with Frederick (William Morgan)