sunwitch.bsky.social
Gently morphing from youth opera direction to libretto writing. Unrepent old leftie. Foreigner. She / her.
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Done. More and more like my student days in 1980s South Africa with each passing day.
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Left me feeling a bit sick. Brushing over the transphobia, the whole deadnaming bit. And it's not just the article - that book will sell and this is part of it. I truly feel for Esther Ghey, but this is such an awful narrative.
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Took one look at your posts and followed!
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Adore Björling. I grew up with his recordings. The most gorgeous voice and artistry.
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Terms of Endearment did it for me.
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Absolutely. I'm from a left wing anti-apartheid South African family educated in the 70s. The assumption behind the way we were taught, even at a vaguely liberal school, was that we were educated to lead. It permeated everything. Schools were deeply, nastily authoritarian & bred exceptionalism.
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📌
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Menewood is also an excellent read.
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Yes, yes, yes. The characters lived in my head to the extent that I didn't want it to end. Came here to put it on the list with the Earthsea trilogy, Little Big and also Hild by Nicola Griffiths which I read more recently and utterly believed in while I was reading it and beyond.
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Still amazed by the fact that the Quinta das Lagrimas is a popular wedding venue. We went to friends' wedding there when we were living in Coimbra and were slightly stunned. I mean, this is the romantic story you want to link your relationship to?!
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Another vote for Severance
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Oh that's exciting. I'm about to start a series of libretto writing workshops with a group of 13 - 15 year olds and will definitely share with them!
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I first met his work here as a child and have loved it ever since.
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It's appalling
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Oh wow. That is something else.
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I honestly thought for years it was a giant camera obscura. Very disappointing!
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Love this so much and passing on to every singer, teacher and pianist specialising in art song that I know.
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😂 And believe me, it would be wild. Actually 8 year old me wanted to sing in the choir, happily ignoring the many impossibilities entailed.
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As Bethlehem Down has already been taken, I will go with Adam lay ybounden. I love its inexorable logic. Boris Ord setting.
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Yup. And that his grave is well and truly dug. He MUST have been advised to say nothing. Surely?
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Been entertaining myself since yesterday by imagining his lawyer's face when made aware of their client's errr PR
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It was loud!
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Different continent but perhaps a universal problem. Because who needs to be able to hear to sing?! And, I mean, the audience was singing along at the tops of their voices too. Maybe it was festive? They were fine shouting out melodies approximately with the brass.
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Oh god - singing in a choir trapped between an enthusiastic amateur organist behind and the local brass ensemble in front. The brass were pretty good tbf - wasn't their fault. The "musical director" at the church thought it would be "festive". Nothing our md or the brass md said would dissuade him.
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"I have put off writing till the moment when the sense of friendship conquered the habit of laziness." This is too close to the bone
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Europeans will seem very normal & not racist & then drop 10 slurs about Travelers or Romani in a single sentence with the same level of casualness that you'd use to remark on the weather.