Can I like that photo very much without coming across as VERY creepy? Do I get some indulgence points for it being After-Halloween-Day - which I donโt give a toss about, but thatโs nobodyโs business :D
01.11.2025 15:06 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Carmen, English National Opera review - not quite dangerous
โSafeโ is a word used far too often in ENOโs bizarre new version of a programme, full of uncredited articles, at least two of which look as if theyโre AI generated. Everything intimacy director Haruko...
Came back early from Dublin to see how marvellous mezzo Niamh O'Sullivan fared in her first Carmen. Voice often lost in the Coliseum vasts and wide-open big stage, but dramatically perfect. So many good shots by @billknight.bsky.social for @theartsdesk.bsky.social; hard to choose.
09.10.2025 09:24 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Aftermath of fire in my study, taken by Bill Knight.
@billknight.bsky.social, who takes wonderful photographs of opera productions, inter alia, for @theartsdesk.bsky.social, came round to document the compelling horror of the fire in my flat, before the clear-up begins. Which it still hasn't, after five weeks. We kick and prod the insurers daily.
22.09.2025 18:15 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
โNeath this blow,
Worse than stab of dagger,
Though we mo-
mentarily stagger.
31.07.2025 21:46 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Details from Cabaret l'Enfer at the Royal Opera production of Faust
24.05.2025 09:26 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I took this picture in 2013 as part of my exhibition The Refugee's Gift. Hasan has been in my thoughts in the last few days. I hope he has been able to find his family.
11.12.2024 11:38 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Here's a snap from the current production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance at English National Opera. The Pirate King (John Savournin) and Ruth (Gaynor Keeble) are discussing a paradox with Frederick (William Morgan)
03.12.2024 14:07 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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