@aidanoliver.bsky.social
Chorus Director, Glyndebourne Opera
Free speech latest
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Genuinely baffled by the levels of cognitive dissonance involved.
16.09.2025 06:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Free speech latest
Other news as we get it etc etc
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In defence of the BBC and other sources, I'm not sure that simply reporting his words in quote marks counts as 'repeating the claim', and certainly doesn't express any belief either way about its credibility. Maddening as it is to see his weasel words amplified, it's the job of the BBC to report.
14.08.2025 11:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A lovely interview with the best music librarian I've ever worked with (and I've known some miracle workers).
Martyn makes a vastly complicated job look easy, and runs the nicest and most efficient music team you will ever meet. All of them stellar, and lovely with it. Worth a read.
It was a grid problem.
10.07.2025 20:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0PS I know that you would *love* there to be some negative angle about the wind turbine in this incident, but I'm afraid there just isn't one.
10.07.2025 09:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It was the greatest of pleasures to see Handel's Saul at Glyndebourne on Sunday, and I can now confirm that @timashash.bsky.social is accurate in every respect in this typically insightful review.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Saint George doffs his helmet as he presents Canon van der Paele to Mary (as altar) in the apse of a church. Brilliant symbolic construct and so gorgeously painted in 1434 by Jan van Eyck. It’s his day.
09.07.2025 09:39 — 👍 104 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 1Went to the opera at Glyndebourne yesterday. A Stunning performance of The Marriage of Figaro. Too many standout performances to mention.
It’s said that opera (and Glyndebourne particularly) are elitist and expensive, but it can cost less than some West End shows. Do yourself a favour and just go.
03.07.2025 23:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It was empty the morning we were there last December too, except for the lovely curator who met us by chance and fondly showed us Pieter's burial place, just near this viewpoint.
03.07.2025 23:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 03 months later, with the Supreme Court now having given effective carte blanche to a rogue regime, this is more true than ever.
03.07.2025 22:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is highly disingenuous reporting.
The turbine is not meant to supply "back-up": Glyndebourne relies on the grid for power, the turbine just keeps the energy bills down. Surplus energy is sold to the grid in winter; the grid supplies the additional power needed in the summer.
★★★★★ Review: Le Nozze di Figaro – Starring Michael Nagl, Mariame Clément’s production of Mozart’s classic comedy showcases Glyndebourne at its best 👇
30.06.2025 17:07 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Love everything about this!
28.06.2025 19:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is increasingly clear.
27.06.2025 20:38 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Yes indeed! Looking forward to it.
16.06.2025 12:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Excellent!
13.06.2025 21:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
“Each move by Trump now seems normalised, hardly a news item for more than a few hours…
“The constitution of the United States is in crisis, and there are shrugs rather than pitchforks.” @davidallengreen.bsky.social emptycity.substack.com/p/a-postcard...
If you ever wanted to understand what an effort to exert unchecked executive power against representatives of the legislative branch looks like
12.06.2025 18:27 — 👍 44 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 1
All roads lead to the Bavokerk in Gerrit Berckheyde's Haarlem, 1680. Today is his day.
12.06.2025 15:47 — 👍 49 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
2/2 North transept & choir chapel of St. Janskerk, Utrecht. Trust Pieter Saenredam to find a view in any church that surprises & fascinates the eye.
09.06.2025 20:38 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0One of my very favourite artists.
09.06.2025 12:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport”
By @rubenbolling.bsky.social, after Richard Scarry.
Genius.
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The production values were stupendous and so was the calibre of everything else - script, casting, intelligence and nuance of the story arcs. Jaw-dropping quality, and far in excess of what I had expected when subscribing (specifically for Andor) so as you say, crazy but brilliant.
03.06.2025 12:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Very much enjoyed your Les Noces exploration on R3 yesterday! *Such* a thrilling work.
25.05.2025 21:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
observer.co.uk/music/classi... now online - Parsifal and Il barbiere di Siviglia
25.05.2025 07:51 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
About time we saw more written about the similarities and indeed links between the mass murderers Putin and Netanyahu.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Imagine the wanton cruelty required to strip wholly innocent, and top-flight students - with no right of appeal, and with no notice - of their place at one of the finest universities in the world, for which they worked so hard.
These people truly are monsters.
