Ah! Je respire enfin! Heatwave is over 🙏

Les Parisiens sont de nouveau champions d'Europe après une victoire obtenue au forceps, au bout de la séance de tirs au but. →https://l.lefigaro.fr/qG60

Second Champions’ League trophy in 2 years. Well done Paris Saint Germain! ⭐️⭐️

The Victorian Child does it again… too many matches lately, too hot. He’s his best opponent.

Being a Jew in modern Britain latest British Museum intimidated into cancelling an event about Jews, because Jews. It's not 'regrettable'. If this happened with any other community, it would lead to outrage. But it's just the Jews www.britishmuseum.org/about-us/pre...

Cutest 🐙 ! Hello little blue !

I won a Victoire de la Musique with that choir. No way it’s disappearing ! www.diapasonmag.fr/a-la-une/le-...

Pope Leo quoting Tolkien. He’s one of us!

The CEO of my corporation has got the cringiest LinkedIn posts…

Next year’s opera season in Paris is depressing… dull and without ambition at ONP, cheap at TCE and closed at Comique… geez

Adieu Felicity Lott. Je ne vous ai vu qu’une fois sur scène mais vous étiez une inoubliable Belle Hélène.

Unbelievably sad that the glorious Felicity Lott has passed. There have been many great sopranos, but few had the radiant intelligence of this extraordinary musical legend.

Thousands die of the flu, of Aids, of measles, of malaria… never in the news. 11 die of Hantavirus and everyone is freaking out. Including those who sneeze their flu in you face in the public transports and don’t vaccinate. Pfff

Virus circus starts again… Not the pandemic, I mean the media and social networks bullshit and conspiracy theories. I’m tired…

Enjoy it while it’s there. youtube.com/watch?v=qbVN...

Hubby is waging war against the aphids. And it’s a bit like in the Ormuz Strait: there’s really no telling who will win.

Reposting this for the haters.

Saw so much backlash against Nolan’s Odyssey even before it came out… Ridiculous. And particularly the backlash about Lupita N’yongo supposedly playing Helen of Troy. If she is it’s totally legit. She’s one of the most beautiful actresses and definitely a face that could launch a thousand ships.

I finally managed to hear the Met Eugene Onegin. Stan’s Lensky made me cry. Wonderfully sung.

This looks so amazing… youtube.com/watch?v=mJi6...

Parce que je suis assureur. C’est une déformation professionnelle. Anxiété anticipatoire : pourquoi certains craignent-ils toujours le pire ? madame.lefigaro.fr/bien-etre/ps...

May the 4th be with you.

The ballet community is wild! Yesterday I commented on a girl’s post who was asking if 29 is too old to start ballet, saying I’d started at 50 and the comment has had 2000 likes in 24 hours 😮!

There are no encores in Paris for the Met Onegin 😢

A breakfast with a view on Ulysses facing the waves…

Met Live HD is tomorrow and alas I can’t go… Would have loved to hear Staaaaan’s Lensky, he got excellent reviews. Hope I can find it on the usual sources later.

Buona la prima!

I’m at Opéra Comique for the première of Lucie de Lammermoor with Devieilhe, Vermot-Desroches and Dupuy. Speranza Scapucci conducts Insula/Accentus.

I think I have the only teen who listens to Holtz’s the Planets in her shower…

Calder, La Défense

Could this be the winner of “ The World’s craziest headline” ? #Newspapers #Headlines #Journalism

Le Slovène conserve son titre sur la course belge. Le Français de 19 ans a réalisé un formidable numéro pour finalement terminer à la deuxième place. →https://l.lefigaro.fr/TTiL

Caramba, encore raté.

I’m ready to fund that startup. Who’s in?

Grateful for some very special music making from MTT. A creative life to celebrate, for sure

Asmik Grigorian’s Tatyana strengthens the Met’s revival of Eugene Onegin ✍️ Susan Stempleski bachtrack.com/review-eugen...

When, upon listening to a tenor, I think ‘well sung, nice voice… a tad boring’, it’s very often Gedda.

Today, #Tchaikovsky's 'Eugene Onegin' with Samoilov, Grigorian, Barakova and de Barbeyrac from New York www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/... #wch

Hubby is gardening and the whole balcony looks like it’s been bombed…

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion. I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

The Met Onegin with Grigorian as Tatyana and Staaaaan as Lensky will be streamed live and live at the cinema 😊

Opera I Hate: la Vestale Opera I think is overrated: Cosi fan tutte Opera I think is underrated: Die Freischutz Opera I Love: Fidelio, Werther, Iphigénie en Tauride Opera I Cherish: Pelléas et Mélisande

Crazy to think booking for this show starts in a month but there is still no cast announced. www.teatroallascala.org/en/season/20...

Staaaaan debuting in Parsifal next season at the ROH 😮

So my day started with a young man giving me his seat on the metro. I feel old 😄

Happy Birthday to the most versatile of opera singers, Michael Spyres! 🎂