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Robert Braunmüller @robertbraunmueller.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Keine schlechte Idee der alten Met, die Aussprache schwieriger Namen auf dem Besetzungszettel zu erklären.

Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

On my way for a week of Walküre with the Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal, having the coziest (and only half hour delayed 😜) train ride ever; to my left, a winter wonderland; to my right, a new friend and some of the best music ever, both keeping me company ❤️‍🔥

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Lea Fink @strassenverlauf.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Zum Todestag von Marie Spieler werfen wir einen Blick auf ihr Breslau/Wrocław. Marie Spieler (14. Januar 1845 - 28. Dezember 1913): Die Töpfergasse in Breslau, 1879. 🧵

Das Gemälde zeigt eine schmale Straße, auf der u.a. Körbe und Töpferware stehen, gesäumt von gelben, grauen und grünlichen Häusern. Im Hintergrund eine Kirche mit zwei Türmen, dahinter blauer Himmel. Nachweis von wiki commons folgt.

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Susanne Wosnitzka @donauschwalbe.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

"Ô, liebs Herz! wie verabscheüe die menschliche gesellschaft; und wie gar nicht geschickt bin heüt zu solcher unter die menschen zu gehen ist mir ein greül." Wir fühlen das, wir fühlen das so sehr! Gedanken einer jungen Frau des 18. Jahrhunderts 🤝

Screenshot eines handgeschriebenen Briefs aus dem 18. Jahrhundert mit folgendem Inhalt: "Ô, liebs Herz! wie verabscheüe die menschliche gesellschaft; und wie gar nicht geschickt bin heüt zu solcher unter die menschen zu gehen ist mir ein greül."

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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 02/12/2025

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

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Emily E Hogstad @song-of-lark.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Somehow found myself on the Simple English Wikipedia entry for Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto, and more program notes should be like this tbh

Piano Concerto No. 1
(Tchaikovsky)
Talk

From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tchaikovsky's Piano concerto No. 1 is a piece of music.

Tchaikovsky wrote it in 1874 when he was 34 years old. The
first musician to play it, Nikolay Rubinstein, did not like it. The
second, Hans von Bülow, did like it.

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Lea Fink @strassenverlauf.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Die Zeichnung des 17-Jährigen Paul Klee "Meine Bude" ist in der unteren linken Ecke auf den 15. November 1896 datiert.

Zeichnung zeigt ein Zimmer mit links einem Bettgestell, dahinter ein Regal mit Büchern, ein Fenster mit Vorhängen, einem Tisch mit Stuhl und darüber ein Spiegel. Nachweis von wiki commons folgt.

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I didn’t (and still don’t) know enough about how musical life in Germany and occupied countries was eviscerated under the nazis through the systematic targeting of jewish musicians. A harrowing read, but important and sadly increasingly relevant… www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Thomas Laqueur · A Different Life: Can cellos remember?

Cellists and violinists in particular are haunted by the musicians who played their instruments before them and those...

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Sounds like an important organisation, glad it is getting support & recognition!

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Herr Rydl’s Bahnhof is absolutely EXTRAORDINARY, what a legend - and a wonderful colleague too, he was Fafner in our Rheingold too! Hope you enjoyed your Wuppertal time and got to ride the Schwebebahn!

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Recently sang in Wuppertal and can confirm that the Schwebebahn is all it is cracked up to be, railway nerd heaven! This article also features the opulent art nouveau Stadthalle 📸, which is where we are performing our Ring cycle with the Sinfonieorchester 🤓 www.thetimes.com/travel/desti...

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The unsung German city with the world’s most extraordinary train

It is 125 years since the Wuppertal Schwebebahn, the oldest suspension railway, first set off. Today it still fascinates visitors to this Rhineland city

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Great documentary about Luigi Nono on @artefr.bsky.social, today is the last day to watch!

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Striking description of hiking alone at night in this, Sand's fictionalized epistolary account of her alpine Grand Tour. I wonder whether it is based on actual experience or desire - and am sad about how it registers as a transgressive, notable thing for a solo woman traveller, even 200 years later

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Last week's Wagner recital, or: joy, and risk 🪽 Risk, because @twgfaulkner.bsky.social & I both debuted so much new repertoire : Erda, Marke, Fricka, Wotan, Waltraute, Pogner... Joy, because the risk paid off and we shared a special evening with a wildly supportive audience in our Wahlheimat 💜

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

All smiles for our Wagner+ duo concert today, 16Uhr, Stadtmuseum Neu-Isenburg 🌞 @twgfaulkner.bsky.social + me with the wonderful Björn Huestege🎹 singing all our favourite *gods and royals with strong opinions*, v excite 🤓

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

This coming Sunday, with @twgfaulkner.bsky.social we get to explore a wonderful selection of Wagner, Verdi, and Strauss-dysfunctional married couple Fricka and Wotan included! And, special delight, we get to debut this programme in our hometown, just outside Frankfurt. We'd love to see you there!

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Concert claxon 🥳 Distract yourself from the 🌀 state of the world 🌀 by enjoying our very cool programme of new music (and not just) for chamber ensemble and voice featuring harpsichord: Kagel's Rezitativarie, Berio + The Beatles... Tomorrow, 08.11.24, 19Uhr, Altmünsterkirche, MAINZ!

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

Some opera animals are more equal than others. Let the new theatre season begin!

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Always after a good singing lesson, I'll want to go straight to practice instead of listening back first but I'll then heed the smarter angel on my shoulder, listen, and realize that what I took away is a mere 10% of the l e a r n i n g s 🔁 and repeat all over again next time...

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

Swiss Easter is intense. Tag urself, are you *checks notes* Häsli-Potter? The "Beer is my yoga" (what) Bunny? "I am Bunough" 🫠 Or my personal favourite, ChatGPT Bunny, whose t-shirt proclaims "I'm smarter than I look" 💀 so much to unpack here

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

Last night: Beethoven by Chailly + the Lucerne Festival Orchestra - a masterful performance, thrillingly seamless, a joy 🤍

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

My #1 top tip for Paris, after having spent a few weeks visiting my husband here, is: make sure you have somewhere nice to stay because you WILL get food poisoning and have to spend quality time stuck inside staring at the walls of your Parisian abode 😵

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

Lovely venue for Messiah this past weekend 🩵 Since it was my first, it was a beautiful reminder of how rewarding it can be to approach very well known music with fresh ears - how often do we stop really listening to something we think we know too well?

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

A Name for a Shakespeare-themed Japanese restaurant: matcha ado about nothing

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

Verbindungen, Schulen, Grünflächen, alles prima, aber - warte! WIE SIND DIE WURSTVERHÄLTNISSE (from a local fb group) 🌭🌭🌭

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Yes! Sometimes those of us who do opera for a living need reminders like this 😌

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Thinking about the end of Walküre last night when cast & crew gathered in the wings all still, quietly transfixed by Wotans Abschied. A beautiful near-ritual appreciation, having been a part of creating, and now witnessing, magic. Opera is impossible and also perfect sometimes

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

It's opening night for our Walküre at Oper Leipzig tonight! Beloved production + great colleagues + the amazing Gewandhausorchester = one happy Grimgerde :)

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Back at #operleipzig for Walküre, popped by Leipzig's beautiful Marktplatz early before our 10am rehearsal and was greeted by the verdant bouquets of kale that grace every German market this time of year (what glorious spongy fronds) (happy to be here) 🌞

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Archiv Frau und Musik @archivfraumusik.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

HEIKE MATTHIESEN (1964–2023) | NACHRUF Heike starb friedlich am 22. Dezember 2023. Sie war seit 2017 Teil des geschäftsführenden Vorstands beim Internationalen Arbeitskreis Frau und Musik, dem Trägerverein unseres Archivs 🕯️ Wir denken sehr an dich 🖤

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Heike Matthiesen (1964–2023) | Nachruf

Heike Matthiesen starb am 22. Dezember 2023. Sie war seit 2017 Teil des geschäftsführenden Vorstands beim IAK Frau und Musik in Frankfurt.

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

So enjoyed this book (Mantel 💔), have been meaning to re-read it, thanks for the reminder!

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Marta Herman @martaherman.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

Toronto, where are these coming from, why come everyone has them now, blink twice if you're being held captive by your giant blow-up Santas

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/11/2023

This painting of a slug by 18th century Japanese painter Nagasawa Rosetsu is my very favorite thing today

excellent 18th century Japanese painting of a slug with slug trails

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