Jacob Zualski - Opera

Look at that profit line and explain to me why energy prices need to increase.

It's disgraceful!

Car park with fun fair and small ferris wheel

The Whey Eye wheel's pretty underwhelming 🤣 I thought they said it would be the biggest in Europe? 🤷‍♂️

'We are on the cusp of peace' says America... 'you are putting us on the cusp of war' replies Europe...

‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...

I think about this a lot...

The idea that the world cannot descend into tyranny and that we in the 21st century are somehow innured against it because all that stuff is in the past is very dangerous indeed. There is nothing exceptional about any era or time.

The fact that much of his behaviour might actually be explained better by a neurodevelopmental difference.

Who's with me?

Those with some experience or knowledge of ADHD will see what I'm getting at here.

Tchaikovsky has long been shamed for his bugromania, and his music psychoanalysed from every other angle. But I'd love to see more people digging a bit deeper than the tired tortured homosexual argument and exploring

Later in life he was either described as the life of the party, or in contrast the hermit of Klin. Nobody seems quite able to pin him down.

Clue number... I forget where we're up to... was his ambiguous sense of gender. One of his letters is even signed as 'from your loving sister Petrolina'.

His party tricks were playing the piano with a towel over his hands and guessing the key of pieces he heard.

His lack of ability to regulate his emotions is well documented, not least by his own letters through the adult years.

He was obsessive to detail, particularly in the pursuit of lovers.

One night he was found crying because the music in his head just wouldn't stop, and another time he was tapping his fingers so hard on the window, presumably to the music in his head, that the glass broke and he cut himself.

His musical prowess was quite remarkable even as a child too

As a child P.T was highly sensitive - 'a child of glass'. He was, by his governesses account, a good boy who 'shone through something uncommon... inexplicably enchanted everyone' and yet 'distinguished by his untidiness, shock headed, carelessly dressed [and] grubby from some unthinking act'...

Did anyone ever notice that by today's standards Tchaikovsky would probably be diagnosed with ADHD or Autism?

In 2020 my pg research led me to exactly this conclusion... but funnily enough I didn't have the staying power to write it up and claim an MLitt!

Hear me out👇

Charcoal grey cotton trousers with fallfront panel.

Cross stitched waistband interfacing detail from hand sewn trousers.

Inside view of the bearer, for fall front trousers. Charcoal grey waistband with green Charles Morris details, and light cotton lining.

Wrapping up the final details on my hand stitched late 18th C inspired fall front trousers. I've learned so much on this project. Not least that clothes just aren't the quality they used to be (and we're no longer taught how to judge that).

Nothing says 'the continued relevance of monarchy' quite like a billionaire, English, unelected king, dressed up as a Scottish laird, turning up at a food bank in a helicopter

I love this! I'm sure I've been to this street in Edinburgh.

Hey! I'm so excited to see you here. I've been consuming endless BannerTube while patterning my wedding outfit. Thanks for all of your knowledge sharing. 💙

Oh, and just in case you're wondering - I did set them straight 😅

Man in train station. Wearing a blue north face coat, black hat and glasses.

Got ten pence off my coffee for being a ScotRail worker... so this is what feathers McGraw feels like with a rubber glove on his head 🤭

All the stuff with Trump, Musk, Zuckerberg is... well it's scary. I've deactivated Facebook, and thinking to go the same way with IG. Any suggestions for a visual platform not controlled by these people?

Happy Christmas to all who celebrate it! (And have a lovely day anyone who doesn't!).

Candlelit medieval castle banqueting hall.

Lovely evening performing in a candlelit concert at Newcastle Castle last night. Indigo sang some Christmas bangers to a sold out hall, and we enjoyed some beautiful singing by Nightigale and the Lark too.

Two men pose in front of a wall that reads "We Are Queer Britain," symbolizing pride and unity within the LGBTQ+ community.

Fab day out - Queer Britain at Kings Cross. Documenting Queer history in London and providing a safe space for people to exist.

Come and sing Die Fledermaus. Open rehearsal. 13th January 2025. Visit ariaalba.co.uk to get connected.

I feel a bit like I live in the East Coast mainline at the minute 🤣 I only got home from Edinburgh yesterday and headed back up today for more Aria Alba. We're starting Die Fledermaus!

Come to the open rehearsal on 13th January with Suzanne Godet and Max McWhirter to get joined in.

Genuinely think anyone can “git gud” at any creative craft they are interested in. If we wanted to actually “democratize” art we would invest in housing, healthcare, food and education as human rights. All GenAI does is make people even more financially precarious and less able to pursue a passion

Singers on stage performing opera with grand piano.

Yes team! So proud to have been involved in giving a platform to Edinburghs next generation of opera stars! Thanks to everyone at Aria Alba for a great night of music and laughter.

Brexit makes no sense in a world dominated by Trump. Britain’s place is back in the EU | Jonathan Freedland From defence to trade, the incoming US president is upending the old order – and standing apart from our neighbours leaves us dangerously exposed, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

“Whatever case you could make for Britain being out of the EU in the Obama era of 2016 makes no sense now…. it’s time for outriders to start riding out” - brilliant as ever from ⁦‪@Freedland‬⁩. And @europeanmovement.co.uk
is definitely riding out. Join us …
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is such a hard hitting truth. I never thought about it that way before.

Joined LinkedIn a few days ago... happened to comment on a video of a disabled actress to counter someone claiming that disabilities are only in the mind.

Fast forward 0 minutes and I'm being asked if I am a terrorist that killed 3 people...?

What's going on with the US right now?