BREAKING: Pope reported to attend Catholic Church; Bears seen defecating in woodland. theguardian.com/culture/articl…

A reminder from the archive:

Looking forward to my notifications in the morning: EMERGENCY PODCAST EMERGENCY PODCAST EMERGENCY PODCAST EMERGENCY PODCAST EMERGENCY PODCAST ……. ……. #Biden2024

‚A man, for whom the truth is just a joke… He may be funny, but for Salzburg it isn‘t funny, it is simply embarrassing‘

One of those days when you open social media and the first thing you see is a photo of a dear colleague you know has not been well and you don’t even have to read the post… #lebwohlwolfgang 🖤

Never even liked tennis anyway.

Realising that despite his genius, Stravinsky’s grasp of English syntax was not up to the task of setting a libretto by WH Auden… It’s taken me half an hour to work out the sense of a single aria (and I’m coming to it for the third time) #rakesprogress #nowordfromtom

Good to see Sir Simon setting the trend for ‘portfolio careers’ many years before it was cool… #lookalike

Arts funding

How did I not know until now that you can link 2 iPads together to make a double page score in forScore App? And on an entirely unrelated note (!), anyone have a cheap old 13 inch iPad they want to sell me?

We’re delighted to have won a Sky Arts Awards Award in the Opera category for our production of Death in Venice 🎉 Llongyfarchiadau | Congratulations to everyone who worked so hard to make this production the success it was. #WNOvenice

"How Wales, of all nations can contemplate muzzling the power of its most potent musical ensemble defies belief" Review by Richard Morrison #SaveWNO #saveourWNO

The Royal Academy of Music oboes play Flight of the Bumblebee arr Anna Wheal 🐝

Is it too early to go to the pub?

Along with Bax, Alwyn is one of the most underrated of composers (embarrassed to admit I haven’t yet discovered Carwithen, but looking forward to it). Please, especially UK orchestras, play more of them!

Thank goodness they just elected someone with such a strong track record of dealing with pandemics…………..

5 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill, becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19

Opera is one of the great national creative assets. So much in Britain is broken. Opera is nearly broken but must be repaired. The Royal Opera Glyndebourne My speech House of Lords 10/12/24

Elon Musk versucht vor der deutschen Bundestagswahl via X die AfD massiv zu pushen. Zuckerberg gibt Fakten Checks auf Meta auf – knapp bevor Trump Präsident wird. In Ö, whatever. Just one Question: Why did we skip the roaring twenties in our century?

A red-letter day in 20th-century operatic history: Enescu’s Oedipe was premiered in Paris ⁦Opéra de Paris⁩ #OTD in 1936.