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Suella De-Vil Shadowy spokesdemon for learning stuff @suellade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The only sort of internal investigation I’d like to see Fartage part of is the one he will undergo when admitted to prison

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In Sydney ( where we go to see our grandchildren) we went to a concert performance of Die Walkure two years ago. It was a lockout from the start. Same as at Bayreuth. We hope that it will be the same this year for Gotterdammerung!

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I agree with you. We have this problem here in the UK too. However quietly latecomers enter the auditorium it’s still a disruption. We heard Paul Appleby singing in Britten’s War Requiem on 26 September and although the concert began a few minutes late, we had nearly 90 uninterrupted minutes.

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thank you! I shall do just that and ask for a reply!

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And doesn’t he keep reminding us!

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Cremona point history walk sounds fun - and for us oldies, perhaps not too long? We visit Sydney nearly every year to see daughter and grandchildren. Over the past few years we have completed the Bondi to Manly walk so we must have passed parts of the walk you mention.

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wondered about the relay here in the UK. Maybe shan’t bother as we heard all 3 of the main singers when they did a concert performance of Macbeth under Pappano in Copenhagen in May.

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thank you for reminding us ( as if we needed reminding) of that appalling politician, who, as you say, should be in jail.

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I thought you were referring to the beach in Sydney! I now see that it is a suburb in Dublin!

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Opera is perceived as elitist and expensive to attend. Neither is really true, but all opera houses need to attract younger audiences. This seems an excellent way to introduce everyone to opera, especially when many of us won’t travel to the US while Trump is president.

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am a massive fan of opera, but until Trump goes, I won’t set foot in the US.

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sometimes the gasp is when the director has changed the ending as in the recent production of I Puritani at the Royal Opera in London! But seriously, what a great initiative!

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We need younger audiences in the UK too.

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My friend Steven has it exactly right.

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’d go for Lise Davidson or Lisette Oropesa or Louise Alder

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Elliot Kirschner @elliotkirschner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The problem of course is not the press. It is that Donald Trump should have been impeached and permanently banned from the White House after January 6.

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I am looking forward to the first concert of the year by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Exeter on Tuesday.

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I thought she had a New Zealand accent.

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

To quote him, he did ‘nothing wrong’

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TensegrityFan🐝🍯 @tensegrityfan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

‘Dan’s a fantastic man. He really is’

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And yet he has ‘done nothing wrong’

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If Reform want to oust the main political parties, they’ll need a few more MPs!!

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

PS Thank you for posting this article.

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The current situation for Opera singers is tragic; you all bring us so much joy. I can almost state that life without opera wouldn’t be worth living …. but then I think of my 8 grandchildren around the world!

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Anthony Scaramucci said on BBC 2 last night that he is hated by so many Republicans, but they have to keep in with him.

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Like you, I am baffled. It seems to me that BBC ‘news ‘ programmes are very right wing and biased towards the Tories and Reform. The Proms are their high point, IMO.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

No idea why Farage pal and former Reform mayoral candidate deleted this.

Arron Banks • @Arro.. 1h Going through Heathrow today, there wasn't one white face in security or airport services. The Home office is staffed by the type of people we are trying to keep out! What hope?

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This tweet took me back 50 years to when my husband worked in the Mater (Public) Hospital in Brisbane and I taught in a State High School in an outer suburb - two of the happiest years of our lives. One way flights paid by the QLD government.

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Try instead watching the tennis from New York! Much more thrilling - and yes, you have to pay, but very little in life is free these days!

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yes, it’s quite a sight to have the scenery and props for each Verona opera ‘stored’ in the piazza.

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Pie Thagoram @piethagoram.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

From @bladeofthes.bsky.social on X Just Stop Oil planned to block a road, they got 21 years. Far Right masked thugs actually blocked roads. Not one arrest, nothing. @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

To all these I would add Farage not being hounded as he ought to be.

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

But no mention on tonight’s BBC news.

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sorry about the quality of the gelati! Haven’t been there for years but still recall the Scrovegni Chapel and the main piazza as well as the Orto botannico.

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

And do you know what! I always tell the truth.

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

An insult to us oldies! I still can’t decide which of the two I hate more: Johnson or Farage. Of course there’s Trump, but the USA is off limits to me until he goes.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Your regular reminder that Nigel Farage IS the establishment. There’s no-one more establishment than him. Public school, the city, career in politics, mates in all the right places, terrible dress sense.

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Nation of Stupids @warwickh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The BBC has received criticism for their constant coverage of a minority right-wing Party in the UK. Their response, today, is to flood the news pages with multiple features. Labour have 403 MPs, the LibDems have 71 MPs, Reform have 8 MPs. This coverage is insane.

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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I've signed this - please may I ask that you do too? It may be belt and braces since the police are allegedly already investigating but if belt and braces are needed to make sure the bastard can't get away with this, then that's just fine with me.

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We thought that Jukes looked ever so slightly uncomfortable at the oyster lunch.

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I looked up which opera you were about to see last night!Having been numerous times to Verona, I think Aida is the absolute, especially the Zefirelli production which you will be seeing!

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What, if anything, can Andy Burnham do about the BBC’ s right wing bias?

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Well done! I’ve managed it twice - some years ago. One was quest and I can’t remember the other. My husband always starts with stare,which was the correct word once, followed by audio.

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In all my visits to opera at the Arena di Verona, I have never seen as many people as in your photo.

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Sarah Roberts @sarahlovesopera.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I already follow him. For nearly 20 years we owned a terraced house in Kendal. I have climbed many of the mountains. Now too old to climb mountains but I love seeing photos of the Lake District.

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