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HatstandOpera

  1. Today's Google doodle is a working #Moog (Goog) synth - takes us back to those New Romantic days... You can even 4 track record! #suchfun
  2. RT @RoyalOperaHouse: "Tomorrow's #Maestroattheopera - winner conducts La bohème Act II". OMG: chorus, kids, café scene, Musetta... silly!
  3. Grey day, so it's Rossini sung by the super Della Jones on the iPod. Which composer or opera lifts your spirits? #happyopera
  4. @wormeries Waterbutts arrived Tuesday, just in time to start filling with rain today! #success
  5. @wormeries Don't want an apology, want a phonecall, then a delivery! Email on its way to sm address with our contact details. Call us plse.
  6. @wormeries Where are our waterbutts? Ordered in March, money taken same day, no replies to emails, phone not answered; respond please! #fail
  7. 'The Low Carbon Footprint Walking Dutchman', or the affordable airborne alternative, 'The easyjet Dutchman' #lessambitiousoperas
  8. The Tweets of Hoffmann #lessambitiousoperas
  9. RT @CJGillett: The Yeah Well Whatever Of Tito #lessambitiousoperas
  10. The X Factor of Nuremberg #lessambitiousoperas
  11. And not forgetting that fruit-based classic: The Mild Liking of One Orange #LessAmbitiousOperas
  12. RT @RoyalOperaHouse: Turandon't, The Moving in Together of Figaro, La Bromance, for these cash-strapped times perhaps? #lessambitiousoperas
  13. @rmappleby Yesterday's train/Tube journey softened yesterday by watching other commuters' iPads - The Wire, Manga cartoon and Angry Birds!
  14. Just packing for Sat's show at Isle Of Arts Festival Ventnor Isle of Wight - just a few tickets left so book now! bit.ly/JUgTR9
  15. Trouble in opera paradise: artistic director of La Scala warns that the house is "dangerously close" to privatisation ind.pn/HK52WS
  16. Happy World Voice Day! Discover more about taking care of your voice whether you sing or not #worldvoiceday bit.ly/HMlYQZ
  17. HSO show in Presteigne Sunday 15 April postponed - birthday boy pianist Jeremy has snapped a tendon in his finger & can't play - ouch!
  18. RT @RoyalOperaHouse: "Seems opera hasn't been kind to mothers - any examples of good mothers in opera?" Harder to find one than you think!
  19. In case you were wondering where Hatstand Opera were this weekend, all is revealed at our blog! bit.ly/ygCcHP
  20. Just received new business cards and quite ridiculously excited! Printed by Moo cards - not cheap but good if you want…lnkd.in/BBkZXy