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  1. Busy, busy week... will I get any time to write at all? After Bach Amadis, next up Verdi & Wagner, Bartok/Stravinsky @E_N_O + NDV!!
  2. RT @RowenaNeville: Obama's committee on Arts+Humanities http://bit.ly/IWKvR Sarah Jessica P etc... & someone sensible like Michael Kaiser?
  3. Dibdin next? RT @TelegraphOpera: Artaxerxes by the Royal Opera at the Linbury Studio review http://bit.ly/1LFzks
  4. RT @jessicaduchen:[...] Yay, baroque opera!! ;-) http://bit.ly/3hAzSA - Thomas Arne's Artaxerxes opens in London; would that I were there...
  5. up in Belfast to learn about plagiarism and see Opera North's Così fan tutte!
  6. new blog post on OTC Alcina: http://bit.ly/1nImKQ
  7. fabulous Handel Alcina from OTC in Bray last night - go see it if you can
  8. RT @NLebrecht: http://bit.ly/3zzjk1: opera magazine become an app
  9. OTC's Alcina gets a positive review from Dervan @irishtimes http://bit.ly/2dq6wm (scroll to the bottom of the page)
  10. saw Gergiev & MariinskyOrch in Belfast last night play Duttieux and Shostakovich - incredible discipline, beautiful playing
  11. Brilliant sendup RT @colla_voce So, who hacked Leonard Slatkin's website?! Or is this some sort of elaborate joke? http://bit.ly/GbUhp
  12. @frindley Oh I agree - booing is healthy & I'm not against it. But I thought Met punters normally didn't boo, so it seemed an odd choice.
  13. @danslevin Il Divo? Incredible film - watch it again. Andreotti is still in the Italian senate...
  14. @colla_voce maybe from a lost biblical plainchant respond "euge serve bone..." (well done, thou good and faithful servant...). Fabulous work
  15. Such a beautiful Tosca from the Met... why did they boo the first night? Do the NYers want their singers to perform in a museum?
  16. saw Judith Weir give a talk @ QUB - mentioned why she refused to re-score Night at Chinese Opera for smaller band, despite economics...
  17. Roundup of new Irish opera projects in yesterday's Times: http://bit.ly/3dSB7f incl details of Donnacha's GAS workshop @ 5pm today
  18. Finally some details emerging about the "colossal" Aida at O2 in today's Indo: "this isn't just an opera" - http://bit.ly/MOUH5
  19. Good news in London RT @inter_mezzo Pappano renews Covent Garden contract !!! http://bit.ly/18bI5l
  20. So good to see Chekhov's Three Sisters in Russian - Cheek By Jowl production superb.