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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is there anyone with OUP access who can help me with accessing a book chapter?

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hot take: Azucena knew exactly what she was doing her baby was just really annoying

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I know this is only episode 13, but so far one of my fav conversations for Decanonized. Discussing Four Saints in Three Acts with Stephanie DePrez, a triple-threat of soprano who has sung Thomson/Stein, taught theology at a Jesuit high school, and is also a standup comedian. 100/10 energy + insight.

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Episode 013: Four Saints in Three Acts with Stephanie DePrez — Decanonized

Pigeons on the grass, alas.

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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

First as tragedy, then as farce. Via @andrewgallix.bsky.social on Instagram.

A screenshot of an essay in the Times Literary Supplement with the title “AI and the crisis of the author” which has been removed by the TLS editorial team as it was written using AI.

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Highly recommend Jens Ibsen's piece on the article by the 43-year-old bass who's retiring from staged opera for more. jensibsen.substack.com/p/yeah-i-rea...

A screenshot of the niche-viral "Why I'm Retiring from Staged Opera at 43" article on OperaWire.com, fed into an AI detector. The AI detector reads "We are highly confident this text was AI generated" with a 100% certainty rating. Every sentence in the article is highlighted, indicating each sentence shows traces of LLM use.

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“Don’t show this letter to anyone, because everybody would say that I can’t write and don’t know anything about politics.” — Chopin in a 1923 letter to Eustachy Marylski

A letter from Friedrich Chopin that ends "Don't show this letter to anyone, because everybody would say that I can't write and don't know anything about politics."

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Barney Miller which was oddly intersectional for a 70s sitcom about cops.

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I like the evergreen specificity of the first two, but the third one feels like it says the most with the least amount of words

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There may also be a bonus episode covering a specific genre of Così interpretations coming soon…

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So glad to be back up and running with Decanonized and to have the first episode post-herniatus be with @akseltoll.bsky.social discussing Così. Additional topics include Bessel van der Kolk, John Cage, and Nathan Fielder orchestrating Enlightenment-era experiments.

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Episode 012: Così fan tutte with Aksel Tollåli — Decanonized

Do you want Albanians? Because that’s how you get Albanians.

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My Ukrainian classes are often interrupted by air raid sirens on my teacher’s side. Forgot Germany was testing its warning systems today & we were interrupted by sirens on MY side. Strangely reassuring to realize both countries remain committed to maintaining the conversational rhythm of my lessons.

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Found this guy at the flea market today for 20€. Named him Rahul because he has two pheasants and realized that cycle of GBBO was a decade ago

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The marketing for Coyote vs. Acme is insane

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Somehow the painkillers I'm on for my herniated discs have made my writing ability go down to 0, but my Instagram posting ability go to 11. The dichotomy is staggering.

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

They got the wrong Home Alone 2 actor.

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Marvellous photo of Tim Curry as Mozart, McKellen as Salieri

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Had an MRI this week and was diagnosed with two (2) literal slipped discs and a pain that isn‘t responding to opioids and I can now officially confirm this is still preferable reading Sl*pped D*sc.

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Moments in music I think about a lot: The way Paul Simon grunts "pull it" in "Can't Run But" (original Rhythm of the Saints recording)

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Can't Run But

YouTube video by Paul Simon - Topic

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Which opera director is going to be the first to realize that Pinkerton’s ship in Madama Butterfly is also the USS Abraham Lincoln?

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Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns.

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If you saw The Galloping Cure this week in Edinburgh, you may have seen an essay from yrs truly in the program. I have some additional thoughts on the work and the hazy question of how opera "works" here:

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Ghosts in the Machine

On The Galloping Cure and the question of how opera works

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Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

But it is, now. (Though as Brecht didn’t quite say, let nothing be called normal in an age of bloody confusion, ordered disorder, planned caprice and dehumanised humanity, lest all things be held unalterable.)

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Spent the entirety of my last therapy session discussing whether to accept an arbitration bureau's recommended compromise for a @deutschebahn.com issue I had in Jan (one that led to me getting unnecessarily kicked off a train during a blizzard), only for *DB* to be the ones to reject the offer.

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Girl Hit by Toy Train Derailment

ALT: Girl Hit by Toy Train Derailment

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Doing this because as much as I hate these things I also love talking about books so here we are.

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Emily Wilson reviewing Nolan's The Odyssey.

A screenshot from 2 Days in New York. Julie Delpy and her father look at a photo exhibit with their backs to the camera. The caption (of a line from Delpy's father) reads: "Nobody's fucking. It's weird."

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Okay I take it back classical musicians should be apolitical

A screenshot of a video of cellist Johannes Moser playing against an MS Paint version of the old Pride flag. He is surrounded by little mini Johannes Mosers as though he were a Gremlin who got doused in his own bathwater. The caption with this Instagram reel reads:

“we pray for the victims of the Berlin CSD. What happened is equally devastating as it is unacceptable. The freedom and diversity of our society shall never be compromised in any way by terror and hate. I am really really sad about this. Berlin was my home for over a decade, and the vibrancy and overall feeling of the city is that of colorful diversity and cultural plurality. Whoever disagrees with that is more than welcome to learn, or leave.”

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Friendly reminder from your queer Arab auntie: When institutions of power pit one marginalized group against another, they do so with the belief that the true winners in these contests are the institutions themselves. The best way to challenge that power is to refuse to take sides.

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

On this week's Decanonized, @garrt.bsky.social and I discuss bulletmaxxing as a gateway to German romanticism and come up with a way to extend the Der Freischütz universe.

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Episode 011: Der Freischütz with Garrett Schumann — Decanonized

RIP Carl Maria von Weber, you would have loved A24.

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I love when people I know of but don’t *know* favorably blurb batshit reactionary books because that means that one less author/writer/podcaster I need to worry about following.

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Reminded of the time Rebel Girls hired me to write stories about Dorothy Parker and Ghada al-Samman that, astoundingly, were never published.

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Within a few minutes of being in his car the other night, my taxi driver introduced himself to my dog by saying, "I'm your uncle," and this is why I love being Arab.

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Don’t care that it’s Sunday, I’m going blast “Perfect Day” so loud that I get a call from the Ordnungsamt in Bavaria.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Wild how the Times lets you get away with libel as long as it's in the Opinion section www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/o...

Barring a political miracle, the party will next year have a new member of Congress, Darializa Avila Chevalier, who, the day after the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, celebrated the event in Times Square. Another probable future representative, Claire Valdez, vowed on July 4 to “fight for liberation from Palestine to Puerto Rico.” A would-be U.S. senator, the Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, offered an alternative take on Michelle Obama’s famous line about going high when your opponent goes low: “When they go low, we don’t go high,” he said. “We take them to the mud and choke them out.” (El-Sayed is a doctor.) In Wisconsin, a democratic socialist, Francesca Hong, is the polling favorite in the race for the Democratic nominee for governor; in 2021 she said that “police exist to uphold white supremacy” and should be abolished; more recently, she has said her “perfect world would be a world without prisons.”

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

In honor of Bastille Day, @carmenchloie.bsky.social joins us on Decanonized to talk about Giordano's French Revolution-tinged "Andrea Chénier." Also discussed: sopranos melting down on Instagram, John McWhorter melting down over John Cage, and Charlotte Corday melting down over Jean-Paul Marat.

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Episode 010: Andrea Chénier with Carmen Paddock — Decanonized

Freedom and potatoes.

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I could read all the articles now, *or* I could just wait for @fivefourpod.bsky.social to break it all down and enjoy the surprise that much more.

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Maybe it’s just my algo but with the amount of Lumumba Vea videos I keep seeing from the World Cup I feel like @versobooks.bsky.social is missing out by not offering a promo on Renée Fenby and Ann Wright’s incredible translation of Ludo de Witte’s The Assassination of Lumumba.

A copy of Ludo de Witte’s The Assassination of Lumumba published by Verso and translated by Renee Fenby and Ann Wright.

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Moderate Democrats forgot what a spine looks like and now, upon encountering it in the wild, are reacting like a medieval peasant seeing an iPhone.

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Crying over how happy the guillotine in La Scala's production of Andrea Chénier looks. He's just a lil guy 😭😭😭

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Realizing the tenor blackface palette is also my ideal eyeshadow palette what in the Frantz Fanon

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Ohhhh my god you "lost 90% of [your] social circle after October 7?" Should we tell everyone? Should we throw a party? Should we invite Bella Hadid

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

On this week's episode of Decanonized, Jerrell Jackson joins me to talk about Verdi's Otello, the NYT comments section, the 90s Shakespeare revival, and more.

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Episode 008: Otello with Jerrell Jackson — Decanonized

In which a storm wrecks Cyprus for five minutes and male insecurity wrecks everything else for three hours.

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Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Spending time with Verdi's Otello this week while sitting with a photo of Placido Domingo as Samson has me thinking I should do a calendar of Domingo's all-time greatest (" ") stage wigs for 2027.

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Triple-Q @triple-q.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

*hears ice cream truck in the distance* Yooo, that's the ice cream leitmotif

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