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Eric Pinder

@operahockeyguy.bsky.social

Actor, director, writer, bon vivant. Artistic Director of CFVA and Opera Del Sol. Gay. Sardonic. Ironic. Not iconic Working on the libretto for a hockey opera tentatively titled “Goaliedammerung”

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08.03.2026 05:31 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
An old time-y illustration of a Chervil.

An old time-y illustration of a Chervil.

Today is Nonidi the 19th of Ventôse in the year 234.
Ventôse is the month of wind.
Today we celebrate chervil. #JacobinDay

More information on chervil

08.03.2026 23:02 — 👍 62    🔁 23    💬 0    📌 2
The view of a stage before the show begins from the audience

The view of a stage before the show begins from the audience

Final performance of Susanna’s Secret and Trouble In Tahiti. Fortunate to have excellent singers. They turned out well #PinderSmootCulturalFortnight #HiHoTheGlamourousLife

08.03.2026 23:11 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hello this is Robert Stack and tonight on unexplained mysteries we talk to a guy who buys Labatts on Amazon

02.03.2026 20:41 — 👍 23    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

The blatant bigotry of this has already been covered, but "we're not making therapy" is pretty rich from the guy who made for example UP and INSIDE OUT.

08.03.2026 11:16 — 👍 2243    🔁 428    💬 32    📌 9

Ironed my shirt for the opera. Now to decide on a bow tie. Tonight starts the #PinderSmootCulturalFortnight where we will see various events here and in NYC

07.03.2026 21:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I just think like. Has Disney considered just rereleasing the original movie in the theaters, because that would be basically free and I also still need something to do with my kids every weekend.

07.03.2026 20:24 — 👍 188    🔁 41    💬 8    📌 1

Look, I am going to need speakerphone to go away. Don't tell me you have no idea how ear buds or headphones work. If you use speakerphone out loud, people hate you. Same with keyboard clicky clacks. Are you a fictional cow trying to get heated blankets in the barn at the farm? Turn that shit off

06.03.2026 16:11 — 👍 111    🔁 29    💬 10    📌 2

Finalizing our plans for NYC and we’ll visit The Frick, Museum of the Moving Image, and The Whitney to see the Biennial. Want to do Museum of Broadway, but will take a trip to Grant’s Tomb instead

07.03.2026 13:28 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gorgeous! I want these in my cupboard

07.03.2026 13:02 — 👍 16    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

Paris Is Burning

07.03.2026 12:50 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

The Producers

07.03.2026 12:46 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

Grey Gardens (slightly unhinged and horrendously tragic)

07.03.2026 12:11 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

Everyone who saw it off Broadway raved about it. I’m glad we can catch a preview before we leave

06.03.2026 16:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My Konzept production

06.03.2026 16:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m just excited for #FCF on here

06.03.2026 15:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also, it should be noted we see the hockey game on Monday and Tuesday night is Tristan und Isolde, so we are running the gamut of entertainment this vacation

06.03.2026 15:05 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Because the Rangers are having a subpar season, I was able to get two tickets in 220 for less than one ticket in the mezzanine for a PREVIEW of Cats: The Jellicle Ball

06.03.2026 15:05 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Got tickets to the Rangers/Kings game at MSG when we’re in NYC!!

06.03.2026 01:38 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I gather that everyone here is 100% certain JD Vance is racist.

So, who here actually knew that Vance's wife isn't white?

And how does that influence your certainty?

05.03.2026 15:17 — 👍 1527    🔁 136    💬 105    📌 7
Tuxedo cat peacefully sleeping against my leg in bed

Tuxedo cat peacefully sleeping against my leg in bed

He looks so sweet, but he’s a a horrible shit stirrer

05.03.2026 14:14 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Store aisle shelves stuffed on one side with inflatable ducks faces the other, stuffed with inflatable flamingos.

Store aisle shelves stuffed on one side with inflatable ducks faces the other, stuffed with inflatable flamingos.

some shit is about to go down

05.03.2026 14:05 — 👍 2243    🔁 453    💬 77    📌 54

People calling lights for the operas are confused by the piano vocal score so it’s going well #HiHoTheGlamourousLife

05.03.2026 13:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
"Thé noir breakfast" is written on a tea bag that mixes French and English trying to be pretentious.

"Thé noir breakfast" is written on a tea bag that mixes French and English trying to be pretentious.

The noir breakfast? Oh, you mean a bottle of bourbon?

05.03.2026 13:33 — 👍 34    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

And I don’t think I’d make you sit through Pelléas, but you’re willingly going to see Tristan so who knows

05.03.2026 12:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A bare mattress and chair outside, with “nothing really mattress” and “who chairs” written on them in sharpie.

A bare mattress and chair outside, with “nothing really mattress” and “who chairs” written on them in sharpie.

gm

05.03.2026 12:26 — 👍 84    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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If you know you know.

05.03.2026 12:17 — 👍 31    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

In no particular order:
Nixon In China
The Ghosts of Versailles
Trouble in Tahiti
Turandot
Pelléas et Mélisande
Wozzeck
A Midsummer Night Dream
Elektra (or Ariadne Auf Naxos - it changes every five minutes)
Lady Macbeth of Mtensk
Satyagraha

05.03.2026 12:33 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Park Atlantis, De Haan, Belgium | Marcel Jaminon | 1974 r/brutalism

05.03.2026 04:28 — 👍 86    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 2

Of course the night I have dress rehearsal the Solar Bears are kicking ass and up 4-0

05.03.2026 02:09 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0