.Catherine Carr asks strangers London Stansted Airport #WhereAreYouGoing? and she stumbles on a beautiful love story that involves #Ibizia, #opera and the English National Opera + #ENOBreathe. 🎭 A romantic start to your bank holiday weekend ⌛️12 mins 📍#Essex ✈️ 🎧 bit.ly/4fXDQcT

🎼His Majesty The King has appointed Errollyn Wallen CBE as Master of The King’s Music; the first appointment to this role of his reign. Click the link for further information about the Master of The King’s Music role: royal.uk/news-and-activ…

Verdi Requiem Edinburgh International Festival with Rouvali & Philharmonia Orchestra to kick off my season 🦇

Twice in a few weeks I’ve been unfairly compared to Jessye Norman by bloggers/self-appointed critics. All voices are individual, comparing live perf to a recording is bullshit, and recording standards today are very different. If you’re going to be critical at least be fair.

ICYMI: Arts subjects now account for a smaller proportion of GCSEs than at any time since 2010, with a 47% decline in entries during that period, according to an analysis by Campaign for the Arts Campaign for the Arts buff.ly/3AvkyLG

Ultimately cuts to the arts in Scotland goes back to Westminster and whether and how quickly austerity is to be reversed. Our govt needs to act now. Proper state funding of the arts is crucial to the health of a democratic country. theguardian.com/culture/articl…

Utterly appalled to read this. Shame on you, London North Eastern Railway.

“I’m a composer because at my school we were all taught to read & write music, it was a natural part of our daily life & that’s not the case now…Music used to be free.” 👏🏻 ⁦Errollyn Wallen⁩ ⁦Lisa Nandy MP⁩ ⁦Department for Culture, Media and Sport⁩ ⁦Department for Education⁩ theguardian.com/music/article/…

Get ready for the National Concert Hall 24-25 Season with a chance to listen back to last season's finale, Verdi Requiem. #JaimeMartín conducts National Symphony Orchestra & star soloists - Miah Persson, Jennifer Johnston, Valentyn Dytiuk & Evgeny Stavinsky RTÉ lyric Live, tonight at 7pm 📷Mark Stedman

Bayerische Staatsoper en septembre sur Mezzo Live ! shorturl.at/ROO6h Ce soir à 21h - KORNGOLD : Die Tote Stadt BayerischeStaatsoper, Kirill Petrenko - Mise en scène : Simon Stone Jonas Kaufmann, Marlis Petersen Solo Musica, Andrzej Filończyk, Jennifer Johnston, Corinna Scheurle, Manuel Günther

Some priceless treasure found at my parents’. I was never destined for a career as a pianist. This, my ABRSM Grade 3 piano exam report (passed by 1 mark): “inconsistent and unwise fingering caused many problems.” 🤣🤣🤣

A supersonic swindle: £1,423 Oasis Ticketmaster hell. And the media dares label classical music and opera as elitist?! theguardian.com/music/article/…

We’re nominated to the 2024 International Opera Awards in the Equal Opportunities & Impact category 🤩 This award recognises the work by opera companies and arts charities to ensure opera is truly an art form for all – and that everyone feels welcome, both in the audience and on

Time to answer some questions that I’ve been asked a great deal lately. My singing career continues apace and is my central focus, especially under the sterling management of Shirley Thomson at HarrisonParrott Group. 🧵1/4

However, for a number of years, I have been working as a producer, for a couple of festivals and also on my own projects (esp Bitesize Proms, of which I remain hugely proud), and I have quietly grown my own cultural consultancy into a recognised entity. 2/4

My clients currently include national museums, combined authorities and local and borough councils, including the London Transport Museum, for whom I am developing a number of major projects (more of which anon). 3/4

My expertise rests in bringing culture, esp sound & music, into spaces where it has only had hitherto limited exposure, amplifying the visitor experience & developing partnerships to unite communities via culture and the arts. If you would like to learn more, drop me a DM! 4/4

Well that’s depressing.

According to this supposedly educated guy, working class people aren’t permitted to work in or watch opera. If only he’d bothered to do some research…