is anyone else getting these texts

Absolutely gone

Last show of this crazy, wonderful project ❤️

What a surprise that was: Orpheus in the Underworld in a delightful “chamber” presentation ⁦If Opera⁩’s new home with bonus DONKEYS 🐴🐴 Meet Jimmy (left) & Teddy. Jimmy is 40 and worked on Weston-super-Mare b

Brilliant.

Singing Testo and Jonas in these. Music I don't get to do often, with some extraordinary musicians What a treat! #monteverdi #tenor #baroque #carissimi

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Everyone is getting this Jimmy Kimmel thing wrong. A) It's not cancel culture when it comes from the government. It is censorship and state repression, just like in traditional authoritarian regimes. B) Kimmel wasn't taken off the air for crotizing Kirk. He was taken off for

Barney Rubble attending a funeral

Still shaking slightly from the dress rehearsal of English Touring Opera's new production of The Rape of Lucretia. Full of subtlety, great performances, stunning to look at. The final 10 minutes will stay with me.

Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.

Thora Hird's performance in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads is always singled out, and quite right too. But Patricia Routledge's performance as Irene Ruddock in A Lady of Letters breaks your heart. I've never forgotten this scene. Patricia was an incredible dramatic actress.

The show itself wasn't a success, so it's not well-remembered that Patricia Routledge not only won the Tony for this, but got a standing ovation. In the middle of the show. From the audience AND THE ORCHESTRA youtu.be/SOzkqKSGauI?si… . #patriciaroutledge #musical #actress

For a moment, I thought this was the Onion.

A beautiful day roaming Québec City. Work starts tomorrow! operadequebec.com/quoi-faire/cen…

RIP Diane Keaton (1946-2025) Love and Death (1975) Director: Woody Allen

Diane Keaton, so relatable and enjoyable that it was easy to underestimate how audacious she was an actress. She could be a searing dramatic actress (Looking for Mr. Goodbar, etc) and you were always awed by her off-kilter yet steely sense of self. You could not make her up.

This has been me for the last hour

This is a compelling argument but I have it on good authority (Nazi account based in India) that if you leave the house in London you will get chopped up with a machete