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Love opera more than anything else, but also like folk music. Cat Lover. Gardener/Lefty tree-hugger And I knit Opera Shawls
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This work by Anselm Kiefer portrays the warrior queen Brunhild, a major character in the medieval Nibelungen saga, and in Richard Wagner’s 19th-century opera The Ring of the Nibelung.

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Celebrating the Music of Kurt Weill! (March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950) German composer (later American citizen)... who fled the Nazi regime and went to America. Here is Mack the Knife, sung by Weill’s wife, Lotte Lenya, from The Three-Penny Opera: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPG9... #ClassicalMusic

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Just now on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social Ella Fitzgerald singing Kurt Weill's SEPTEMBER SONG. Unbelieveably beautiful.

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Currently listening to Shostakovich on #RadioRai3

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Rose pattern beret in Uradale Yarn

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Watching Live stream of GOETTERDAEMMERUNG from #LaMonnaie in Brussels.

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I've always loved Peter Maxwell Davies. ORKNEY WEDDING WITH SUNRISE being played now on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social

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Listening to Mendelssohn's Octet on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social What an exquisite piece!

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On 18 February 1883, the body of Richard Wagner, who had died 5 days earlier in Venice, arrives at the train station in Bayreuth. In a funeral procession it is brought to Villa Wahnfried.

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#OnThisDayInHistory, Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" premieres at La Scala in 1904. It does not go over well at the time.

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I love Shostakovich. 8th String Quartet now on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social (Live from @wigmore-hall.org.uk

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My next non-fiction read: The Golden Thread. How fabric changed history. Looking forward to reading it!

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My current non-fiction read which is already interesting and engrossing.

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Four pages of original art for the graphic novel, “Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung,” by Roy Thomas (writer) and Gil Kane (artist).

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Wonderful to hear Wagner's WESENDONCK LIEDER on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social

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La nostra #recensione de "Die Walküre" di Richard Wagner in scena al #TeartroallaScala

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The penultimate chapter in Regents Opera’s Der Ring des Nibelungen

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#ArtsUpdate: Renée Fleming steps down as artistic adviser to the Kennedy Center following recent leadership changes. Grateful for the impactful leadership of David Rubenstein and Deborah Rutter, she hopes the Center continues to thrive. Ben Folds has also resigned. #KennedyCenter #CulturalNews

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Happy Valentine's Day

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Wonderful to hear Anthony Rolfe Johnson singing 'Wher'ere you walk' on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social Just now

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Das Rheingold, Regents Opera, 9 February 2025 boulezian.blogspot.com/2025/02/das-...

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Listening to Loewe's setting of ERLKOENIG. (Recording of @wigmore-hall.org.uk concert). I don't find it in any way inferior to Schubert.

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I've never wanted to go to the opera more!

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I really love how unhinged classical artists were. (This is about Richard Wagner, composer of the Ring cycle)

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Listening to Meyerbeer on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social . His music is actually quite attractive, but as soon as Wagner came along, he was forgotten about. Of his works I have seen L'AFRICAINE and ROBERT LE DIABLE.

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We got interviewed in The Times!

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Starmer is to attend an EU summit and Brexiters are having a proper tantrum about it. As if they negotiated something good. As if our industries hadn’t been desperately lobbying govt ever since. As if the EU wasn’t an ally. Brexiters are monstrous toddlers - a total drag on diplomacy and progress.

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Thought this might amuse people.

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Happy National Embroidery Month my friends!

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not to downplay the ugliness of this but this is the equivalent of busywork. they are giving him executive orders to sign so that it feels like he’s doing something.

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I Just finished this. It Is made from Uradale Yarn .

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