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Believe that a farther shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracles And cures and healing wells.

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„La Wally - Alfredo Catalani“ Fondazione Haydn Stiftung auf #Vimeo an vimeo.com/400518755?ref=…

If we winter this one out, we can summer anywhere.

The books stood open and the gates unbarred. The maps dreamt on like moondust. Nothing stirred. The future was a verb in hibernation

"It is necessary that all those who are interested in the future of democratic societies unite, & that all in concert make continual efforts to spread within these societies the taste for the infinite, the sentiment for the grand & the love for non-material pleasures” Tocqueville

Philosoph Markus Gabriel: «Wir haben eine politische Monokultur, und alle halten sich auf unsicherer empirischer Grundlage an dieselben epidemiologischen Modelle» nzz.ch/feuilleton/phi… via NZZ

Running Nowhere in Beirut Under Coronavirus Lockdown newyorker.com/culture/person… via The New Yorker

'Do not wish to have control in everything’ —Creon to Oedipus

Creating new opera under lockdown: composer Alex Woolf on A Feast in the Time of Plague, his new opera with Sir David Pountney to be premiered by Grange Park Opera, artistic director Wasfi Kani. My interview: planethugill.com/2020/07/alex-w…

Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a glossy purple clot . . . Like thickened wine: summer’s blood was in it Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for Picking

Only a few days left to apply!

no words. Alexander Vedernikov. Lohengrin CPH 2016 ( © Mats Bäcker)

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Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a glossy purple clot . . . Like thickened wine: summer’s blood was in it Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for Picking

Malheureux en amour, malheureux en politique : le roi MACBETH est nu sur la scène de l’Auditorium de Dijon. Opéra de Dijon premiereloge-opera.com/article/compte…

Macbeth de Verdi, drame d’aujourd’hui à l'Opéra de Dijon olyrix.com/articles/produ…

If we winter* this one out we can summer anywhere. (*It may take a couple of winters)

Aymeric Biesemans révélation scénique de cette production pour moi ! Présence, charme et puissance de comédie géniale. Il me fait penser à un jeune Dubroca.