OperaAlex

Almost retired scientist. Melbourne, Australia.
Opera, music & theatre a big part of my life.
I care for people & the environment. I still mask up in public.

[Barbara Pocock @BarbaraPocock]

This was a massive failure of private sector outsourcing resulting in a myriad of dodgy providers getting paid bucket loads to kick people off the dole. The Greens will abolish mutual obligation and bring employment services back into the Australian Public Service.

[Bernard Keane @BernardKeane]

Jillian Segal was on the board of NAB while it ripped off customers and faced scandal after scandal. She has criticised calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and defended bombings of hospitals.
Why does she have any sort of government role?

https://t.co/q3TKmFn3CK

[Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilAU]

BREAKING: The PM has announced the appointment of a pro-Israel advocate as special envoy on antisemitism. We are concerned this will undermine important work across racial lines to address all forms of racism.

Our release: https://t.co/Y6yEZjtk8W

https://t.co/YQTwxhDS9h

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

I hate to be the one to break this to you all, but there are an awful lot of people this past week who are paid to be journalists/reporters/whatever who really aren't that bright and have been talking utter bollocks.

Yet apparently social media is the problem.

[Bachtrack @bachtrack]

Triple triumph: Puccini's Il trittico opens at @OperaAustralia
✍️ David Larkin
https://t.co/dFV7FP1dEl

[OperaAlex @OperaAlexD]

"But he and his people vowed all along that they would use the tools of democracy to destroy it......"

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

We chose the cover image, based on a well-known 1932 Hitler campaign poster, for a precise reason: that anyone transported back to 1932 Germany could very, very easily have explained away Herr Hitler’s excesses and been persuaded that his critics were going overboard. After all, he spent 1932 campaigning, negotiating, doing interviews—being a mostly normal politician. But he and his people vowed all along that they would use the tools of democracy to destroy it, and it was only after he was given power that Germany saw his movement’s full face.

Today, we at The New Republic think we can spend this election year in one of two ways. We can spend it debating whether Trump meets the nine or 17 points that define fascism. Or we can spend it saying, “He’s damn close enough, and we’d better fight.”

We unreservedly choose the latter course. And so we have assembled herein some of our leading intellectual historians of fascism; a member of the fourth estate who learned firsthand what the Trump lash feels like; a leading expert on civil-military relations; a great Guatemalan American novelist with a deep understanding of immigrants’ lives; one of our most incisive cultural critics; and a man with all-too-real experience in living under a notorious authoritarian regime. The scenarios they describe are certainly grim. We dare you to say, after reading these pieces, that they are impossible.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The fact that western media no longer talk about Israel's #GenocideinGaza and the oppression of Palestinians anywhere under Israeli rule, does not mean that genocide and oppression have stopped. It means they are being NORMALISED.
#Humanity wake up!

[💙 Dr. MemeNstein votes 💙 BLUE 🇺🇸🦅 @Coste1Costello]

@BlisterPearl Biden’s name NEVER appeared in Epstein’s flight logs. But Trump’s name appeared 69 times. 69!
—@TheFungi669

[OperaAlex @OperaAlexD]

This FIDELIO from the Dutch National Opera is arrant nonsense. Why are these travesties largely restricted to opera among the dramatic arts???
https://t.co/JPx1ChraWo via @YouTube

[OperaAlex @OperaAlexD]

I find it irritating how the volume of the commentators on @BBCRadio3 is often much louder than the music!!!

[OperaAlex @OperaAlexD]

Guilty pleasure! Yum!

[Nigella Lawson @Nigella_Lawson]

Re-upping #RecipeOfTheDay, which is Drunken Noodles, an easy win for the sleep-deprived, hungover, and hungry! https://t.co/Di6Lq4TyN0

[OperaAlex @OperaAlexD]

😇😇

[Elliot Grove @elliot_grove]

At last! UK Labour leader Keir Starmer pledges to turn the arts from a ‘luxury’ to a ‘necessity’ https://t.co/e909Enfu7m

[OperaAlex @OperaAlexD]

Simp'e pleasure; Regula Mühlemann in 2012 https://t.co/aMPh73t05t via @YouTube

[OperaAlex @OperaAlexD]

No, it's not really NOT what matters!
Biden's ego is preventing other better qualified people from running against Trump.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

President Joe Biden, fighting to save his endangered reelection effort Friday, defiantly declared that “I’m staying in the race” during a campaign rally in Wisconsin.
https://t.co/ySoftJcFso

[OperaAlex @OperaAlexD]

No, it's not really NOT what matters!
Your ego is preventing other better qualified people from running against Trump.

[OperaAlex @OperaAlexD]

Yes

[Felix Graham @AFABulousTenor]

Anyone here have the Ben Bagley Kurt Weill Revisited Vol. 2 album?

[OperaAlex @OperaAlexD]

Does anyone know whether any classical LPs are collectibles, or are they all essentially worth just pennies?

[Just Jack @7Veritas4]

“Let’s hold Biden to ridiculous standards because we can’t hold Trump to any.”

- Mainstream Media

[OperaAlex @OperaAlexD]

Keep well away from Fifth Avenue if Trump gets elected!

[OperaVision @OperaVision_eu]

🎥 Sneak peek at Fidelio: Good, evil and a world behind mirrors - a new take on Beethoven’s only opera.
Discover the new production from Amsterdam with a world-class cast and the @ConcertgbOrkest conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada.

➕ https://t.co/ruuJbijFdk