Alexandra Wilson

Thank you!

Thank you!

Fear not, it is not about operas by British composers! (I mean, Britten gets a few mentions, but only in passing.)

Someone Else's Music: Opera and the British Buy Someone Else's Music: Opera and the British by Wilson, Alexandra (ISBN: 9780197803639) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Amazon link here: www.amazon.co.uk/Someone-Else...

This book means more to me than any other book I have written. I want to get copies into the hands of everyone who cares about opera or is interested in the broader cultural history of our country.

Please consider buying a copy. Thank you. 🙏

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Durham Station Road, painting by Eric Thompson (b.1947). #NorthernArt

There's been an annoying glitch in publisher supply chains for my new book just at the point of UK publication (boo) but Amazon has copies (hurrah!). Buy yours while stocks last!

Also available with no issues in the US and immediately on Kindle.

www.amazon.co.uk/Someone-Else...

Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother This is the annual Royal Historical Society Lecture.

Booking is now open for this year's Royal Historical Society Public History Lecture, with @greshamcollege.bsky.social:

'Minor Criminal: The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother', with Daniel Finkelstein bit.ly/4op6Wpd

6-7pm, Tuesday 4 November: in person and online #Skystorians 1/2

Students can be customers, or they can get a university education.

They can't do both.

Universities are getting away with selling the idea they are research institutions (with associated degree value) after having abandoned research.

We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians.

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Please let us know if there are gaps.
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Oh no... Disillusioned with the other two main platforms, I was thinking recently about giving it a go!

But then again, on a recent rubbishy BBC game show, participants were played extracts of "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" and they all called it a song. Is it feasible that even young music graduates might be doing similarly? 😱

AI alert, surely.

An unflinching Tosca The controversial Anna Netrebko has staged a breathtaking comeback. Each note of her ‘Vissi d’arte’ pulsates with emotion.

I went to the new Tosca at Covent Garden and this is what I thought.

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"Female" as a noun is OK for nature documentaries or police dramas but in every other context is demeaning to women. We aren't animals or criminals.

American usage, as ever, is different.

Female is an adjective and anyone using it as a noun makes themselves sound stupid.

At this event I will be talking to singer Adriana Festeu and Christopher White, Head of Opera at the RAM, about the opera-elitism stereotype and how things differ between Britain and Germany. Free to attend and open to all but you need to book a space.

My review of the Radical Harmony (aka Pointillist) exhibition at the National Gallery.

Great! 😃

Is this a novel???

Definitely a model to apply to @gwr.com with its endless "points problems between Reading and Paddington" and "too many trains need fixing at the same time" cancellations.

I just thought companies had agreements to avoid all doing the same works in quick succession.

So many Toscas this season...

My friend @georgehallmusic.bsky.social is trying to locate a manuscript full score & orchestral parts of the cantata Once Upon a Time (Boosey & Co, 1903) by the composer Liza Lehmann having failed to locate them via Boosey & Hawkes, the British Library et al.
If you have any ideas, do contact him.

Opera's Social Status | Royal Academy of Music

Please come along and hear me discussing my new book "Someone Else's Music: Opera and the British" at this event at the Royal Academy of Music on 26 September.

www.ram.ac.uk/whats-on/ope...

Sounds familiar! 😂

Thousands of noise complaints made against Oxford Brookes students in last five years Thousands of noise complaints have been made against Oxford Brookes university students in the last five years.

Doesn't sound as if this is being well-handled.

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45 minutes it took them to coax me over the edge. Given how distressed I was, I like to think that wouldn't happen now.

Perhaps children could be given a choice of this or a week of art classes and theatre trips!