David Karlin

Co-founder and director of Bachtrack. Tech-head, foodie, writer about opera, music and travel, mad about skiing, tennis and scuba. @[email protected]

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One of those evenings of opera when I needed an extra star. https://t.co/rQykcMpEAo

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@britishmuseum Your booking process for the Bayeux Tapestry is seriously messed up. Many attempts to book have resulted in you either logging me out and telling me to sign in (and enter the multi-hour queue) again, or giving me a "Page not found" error. I'm furious.

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I'm steadily hearing more news about how horrific the current botnet wave is... And even our small web business is in the eye of the storm. https://t.co/ThmGy0agHl

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Belleville, Paris: demonstration for freeing Palestinian prisoners https://t.co/5XbrJe1DYT via @YouTube

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We can't think of too many classical pianists from Indonesia, which makes Sam's latest review from @pghsymphony particularly unusual reading: https://t.co/5SE7TYM5Ql

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OK, @British_Airways or anyone involved with their app: please explain this screenshot, taken when I was still in the departure lounge at Faro. In particular, explain how it can say “on time” when the estimated arrival time is nearly two hours later than the schedule.

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I’ll be posting on Bluesky now, hoping for a refuge from right wing hatred. Do come and follow me there! https://t.co/4fJsUVbyaT

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@QuickBooksUK Your system is running unusably slowly today (as usual, your mendacious status page shows that everything's fine). And most of the items on my plus menu have disappeared.

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The joys of concert dress code. Don’t you always dress like this in 29° heat?

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This is the most fun I've had in an opera house in a long time - which, considering how thin the starting material is, is pretty amazing. @GarsingtonOpera. https://t.co/H2ZdL6ssAk

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@ClassicalCritic Divertimento for strings

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@QuickBooksUK Actually, in the many years I’ve used QuickBooks, I’ve never seen that page show an incident, in spite of many instances of downtime. So frankly, I think it’s a meaningless piece of PR.

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As usual, @QuickBooksUK are lying. I reported an incident over half an hour ago, and it's still ongoing.

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It's not everyone's (anyone's?) favourite opera, but last night's Andrea Chénier was pretty special. And I am in awe of Elena Zilio! https://t.co/bpcsWgPNk1

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This is the other Carmen in my life. She lives outside our front door and frequently becomes sufficiently profuse that she needs to be attacked with a knife (OK, with secateurs) so that we can get into the house!

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Wonderful to be back @glyndebourne for a magnificent season opener of Carmen. Great piece of direction by Diane Paulus, a superb Escamillo, and I doubt I'll hear the score better played than by Ticciati and @LPOrchestra https://t.co/0QbaSTiiWV

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For the first time ever today, when voting, I was asked to show photo Id. Given the minimal level of voter fraud of this type, I'm really unhappy with this blatant attempt at voter suppression.

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@ed_lyon @jjohnstonmezzo @bachtrack @ace_national I can’t disagree with that, Ed. But whatever it is I wish for, this report isn’t it, nor is their awful lack of transparency.

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For my German practice, @Duolingo has decided that one of my “weak words” is “Oper”. I think something has gone seriously awry with the algorithm.

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When it comes to living composers, @dovecomposer is the one whose work I most look forward to hearing. Odyssey @BristolBeacon on Sunday was just outstanding. I just wish it would get heard at the places where the anti-immigration community go. https://t.co/3PX9iKhKQ1