Mood

Bsky moderation is definitely having a day off 👀

Downloaded the Uber app

Seine Angst ist meine Angst / Seine Wut ist meine Wut / Seine Liebe ist meine Liebe / Sein Blut ist mein Blut

Chippy tea

You, in another decade 🚬

Getting messages from Suzanne Vega now

Salome not Chamolet

Reply with a gif of a powerful woman.

Looking forward to Call Me By My Name the opera 💅 🍑

C21 operas Written on Skin Jerry Springer Festen The Hours Doctor Atomic Dead Man Walking Powder Her Face The Minotaur Fire Shut Up in my Bones Flight

My gateway to grown up reading. What was yours? #WorldBookDay #WorldBookDay2026 Swimming Pool Library Alan Hollinghurst But of an eye opener as my first gay book 👀

One is never enough Stingy mingy with the cream though

Passata is infinitely better than tinned tomatoes 🥫

Ta-dah!

Cassoulet is happening

How I feel when someone blocks me.

I demand an opera double bill of Salome and Elektra! The axe could be double cast 🪓 What a night at the opera that would be

Ten favourite C20 century operas, no more than one per composer Salome 😵 Peter Grimes 🎣 Nixon in China 🇨🇳 Lulu 💃 Jenůfa 🧊 Einstein on the Beach ♾️ Suor Angelica ☠️ Rake’s Progress 🥃 The Lighthouse 💡 Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District 🍄

Spring sprung Thank fuck

Ten favourite C19 operas, no more than one per composer Norma Tristan und Isolde La Traviata Der Freischutz Kovanshchina Roberto Devereux Rusalka La Boheme Prince Igor Cavalleria Rusticana

The night garden

I’m going to die happy at the Rosalía gig frankly

Morning Blue skies Last morning of my Munich opera adventure My first solo holiday which has gone well, little wobble last night with some idiot in a bar so I left and I felt a bit lonely after that but more culture this morning with the Haus Der Kunst

Moon 🌒 over the opera

Too many stairs Just enough chandelier

The faithful will not stop Fifth curtain call once the house lights went up

Asmik takes a well earned bow at the end of an incandescent Salome

Breaking the po faced no cameras 📸 for applause rules Salome

Cast of Salome at Bayerische Staatsoper Was amazing and exquisitely sing and played Could have done with some blood and guts at the end (and an actual severed head in what was an obviously empty box) to bring some visceral passion to Asmik Grigorian’s otherwise brilliant performance

Stop 🛑 Go 💚

Bayerische Staatsoper, München Salome mit Asmik Grigorian Oper von Richard Strauss und Oscar Wilde

Sometimes it’s OK to be a tired old Queen

If you see this post a Knight.

If you see this post a Knight.

Bottom’s first

Rude not too 🍻 What’s the wurst that can happen?

Camp church

How your email finds me

More view

So brave

Worth the terrifying climb up 13 flights of ancient stairs

Watching dogs find out you don’t fuck around with geese 🪿 is always amusing

Englischen Garten Nice but piles of litter everywhere 🤬

Bridges everywhere sullied by the padlocks of conformity 🔐 😬

See you in church

Wondered why there are no trams here (Munich) Turns out they’re on strike 😂😢 Metro from the airport yesterday was ok but very slow and not what I’d call cheap (€15 single) I don’t need a day pass btw

Take a bow

Fürst Igor at Gärtnerplatztheater, München Oper von Alexander Borodin

Ringing the bells for me