Beatrice Venezi's appointment as music director of La Fenice has been confirmed by the opera house's board of directors. Which brings us back to @kevinng.bsky.social's question: Is her conducting any good?
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me too omg
Tristan, at last
new met tristan
clearly she was onto something seeing as how they fucking killed her
"...No nurse should be asked to accept less pay, fewer benefits, or less dignity for doing lifesaving work. Our nurses have kept this city alive through its hardest moments. Their value is not negotiable.” —New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani
It’s out in German and will be soon in English: Jeff Brown and I considered the new Matthias Pintscher opera DAS KALTE HERZ at Staatsoper Berlin.
omg!!!
I went to see Hamnet and found it pretty tedious, though I may be allergic to this genus of weepy period piece:
BREAKING: Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife has made a “transformational” donation to the LGBTQ+ advocacy group. This large gift comes just months after the Trump administration shut down counseling services for queer youth.
My latest for @wired.com:
Such awful news - fantastic critic and writer, I learned so much from him
Really saddened and shocked to hear of Andrew Clements' death. A wonderful critic, matchless on 20 and 21st century music, and a great colleague and friend to whom I owe an immense debt of gratitude for his role in giving me my own break as a critic. It's a huge loss. And he will be greatly missed.
we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
Immigration agents have shot at least nine people since September. All of them have been in cars.
If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police
"In America, when a officer murders an innocent person, billionaires give them a cash bonus."
The American Dialect Society's Word of the Year is SLOP!
“Slop isn’t a new word. It has moved from the pig sty, to the algorithm, and now forms newcompounds such as sloppunk, slopification, and friend slop,” Dr. Kelly Elizabeth Wright said. “This productivity has no end in sight.” 🧵
i saw him do pelleas with sandrine piau and it was transformative
yes!!!
justice4bears
excuse me @mayor.nyc.gov, will you invite the unhoused basement bear to live in the greatest city in the world
Gonna have to rename the Streisand Effect the Bari Weiss Effect
omg yes
Can you believe I paid less than a dollar for all these hits?!??!
Not the Onion. Literally, NOT the Onion.
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