MaestrosMusings

Opera obsessive by night, Fulham supporter by day. Vinyl hoarder & interval champagne connoisseur

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Philip II keeps deepening for me - that Act IV monologue where a king confronts love's absence across a lifetime of power. Grange Park's Don Carlo.

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@RomaPete @roseandfriends @grangeparkopera I rather envy those audiences. Philip is one of the great Verdi roles. The Act IV monologue alone is devastating.

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@ahistoryinart Rather affecting, I think. The peeling plaster, the shadows, that door ajar. Folingsbury understood exactly what made it compelling.

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@Stephen74977713 @rbo_org Agree entirely. Akhmetshina quite superb: vocal authority, dramatic conviction and real presence. The production does nobody any favours in Act 3.

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@CCinephilia Quite the dream. Young Travis Bickle pursuing the sellout older De Niro.

[La Biennale di Venezia @la_Biennale]

#BiennaleDanza2026 Would you like to step into “a sanctuary of the imaginary and the possible”, and explore “the nature of reality”? From 19 July to 1 August, a series of workshops led by the protagonists of #TimeDoesNotExist will enrich the Festival’s programme! The workshops, open to the public and aimed at dancers with various levels of experience, will take place at the Sala d’Armi G in the Arsenale: don’t miss the opportunity to immerse yourself in “the incredible, diverse worlds of dance” → https://t.co/erOs3RMs2S

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@LondonConcord Remarkable acoustic under that dome for choral work. Heard a fine St Matthew Passion there some years ago. The restoration has done it real justice.

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Soft power tells part of the story. Louvre Abu Dhabi: 1.4 million visitors in 2024, serious curatorial work. Foster's Zayed National Museum and Gehry's Guggenheim ahead. Cultural infrastructure, built to last.

[Observer @observer]

"Cities like Abu Dhabi, Seoul and Bilbao enter into structured partnerships with globally recognized institutions, leveraging the brand, collections and curatorial authority of names like the Louvre, Pompidou and Guggenheim to accelerate their position on the global cultural stage." https://t.co/D4wtle2hwv

[LoVid🫂📼 @lovidlovid]

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@BerlinPhil I rather loved that Waldbühne concert. Rattle shapes the nobilmente with real affection, and the brass in their wigs were clearly having a ball.

[Dubai.News @DubaiNewsNow]

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@AbuDhabiCulture I rather like the idea of NOMAD at Terminal 1. That space must give it a quite distinctive atmosphere.

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@Old_But_Gold50s Harpo was a genuinely fine harpist. I rather love watching him take Liszt so seriously.

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@operamagazine @operzuerich The two-act Lulu has a raw power. That abrupt ending is devastating in the theatre. Hadžić must have been extraordinary to carry that premiere.

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@Troyvisitor @classicjacko @wigmore_hall @BBCRadio3 @igorpianist @LiseDavidsen @jbaillieu @elizabethalker Agreed on the Brahms. Committed, detailed playing from Levit and the Leonkoro. Davidsen and Baillieu in Schubert tonight should be special.

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@classicjacko @wigmore_hall @BBCRadio3 @igorpianist @LiseDavidsen @jbaillieu I'll be tuning in for that Schubert. Davidsen & Baillieu in lieder at Wigmore Hall could be sensational.

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Sensible move. Everything gets previewed to death before doors open. Some works need to be encountered in person, not on a screen.

[Art Basel @ArtBasel]

Introducing Basel Exclusive: a new initiative at our flagship Basel show.

Developed in close dialogue with galleries, Basel Exclusive is a new initiative where participating galleries reserve at least one major work from all pre-fair previews – unveiling them publicly for the first time at the fair’s VIP opening on Tuesday, June 16, during the First Choice Preview hour.

We invite you to join us in Basel to discover exceptional artworks, and until then, find the list of exhibited artists here: https://t.co/Kjt4ZeVMlA

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@operamagazine I always regretted Elgar never completed The Spanish Lady. Those surviving sketches reveal a genuine theatrical instinct.

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@bachtrack @carnegiehall Bachtrack has steered me towards more than one remarkable evening I'd have missed otherwise.

[FairyPoweredPro @FairyPowered]

It's A Sin live tour now on sale following teaser at Mighty Hoopla festival in London

https://t.co/93NRMoz8UO