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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 5h

Lisette Oropesa it's not too late to get into every single early Mozart seria role

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If I had a nickel for every Handel production that put Emily d'Angelo in a kilt

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Me, every queen and every youth on a U30 ticket up in here

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

can't wait to see what possible sensitive topics Götterdämmerung might include!

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Very happy to see the news that Martin Rajna will be conducting the Bayerische Staatsoper's new Stuarda - tremendous young talent *and* I've already heard him lead a great (orchestral) performance.

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bravo guys sitting directly behind me last night btw

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Heather Winters @heatherwinters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My husband’s band is having a Domino’s fundraiser for BOGO free pizza cards. His band program has been exploding with students and they provide every student with instruments, uniforms, reeds, etc that they need for free. Every little bit helps support those kids! store.dominos.cards/54728

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Help us raise $4,000! - Blackhawk Middle School Band

Please help Blackhawk Middle School Band! We need help raising money towards uniforms, music, equipment repairs, commissions, and clinics! Your support is greatly appreciated!

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Between the Kosky Macbeth and the Guth Semele, having my year's fill of black feathers covering the stage

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Michael Spyres in a kickline once again brings the house down

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They nixed The morning lark from the Semele revival??? Capital crimes

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know it's a Baroque opera when the gays are turning out in force

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I appreciate the pressure of fitting everything into a very restricted word count and all but man there has to be a better way to discuss gender presentation onstage

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I recognize JJO is the proverbial hot shit and very marketable but holy shit, focusing the Semele promotion entirely on him when he's like fourth-billed and you got Louise Alder and Michael fucking Spyred up there. is a choice

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

horrendously lackluster spring programme for Müpa. Konradi and Behle in Schöpfung won't get me through the year

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Jay Geller @jaygeller.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"AfD, CDU ban new Holocaust 'stumbling stones' in Heidenau [ . . . ] The initiators of the Heidenau ban argue that, while remembering Holocaust victims is an essential task, the placement of stones leads to 'passersby walking over or even stepping onto the names of the victims.'" My thoughts below.

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AfD, CDU ban new Holocaust 'stumbling stones' in Heidenau

Activists, politicians and representatives of Holocaust victims reacted with anger after the center-right CDU party joined forces with the AfD to ban new Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) in the easter...

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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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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

de Caluwe saying the first thing he's doing in Salzburg is buying a bike. European pride turned up to 11

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Delighting in The English Concert's new Giulio Cesare. eat your hearts out Il pomo d'oro & JJO

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muura karu @muura.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

a terminally ill trans person from the states got deported this morning from finland, leaving his finnish spouse behind. i know jayce's spouse, and ive been following the case of jayce being mistreated and being exposed to violence from finnish immigration services and the police in horror for years

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Incredibly bracing to review people who have been born in 2000 and after. Those are not real years

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Erin Roseberry 🔜 SPX B5 @roseberrycomix.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There’s been multiple versions of the Rosh Hashanah griffin, this is the first artwork from 2019, which was also sold at SPX 2022, and has a long history of online popularity. Griffins were an important symbol to medieval Ashkenazim and I’m singlehandedly bringing them back. Chag sameach!

A digital drawing of a griffin surrounded by large apples, pomegranates and honey with Hebrew calligraphy wishing “a good and sweet new year”

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Once I hook myself up to the Carsen Zauberflöte for 24 hours I'll be fine

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Let it be said that Alina Wunderlin did rock the Königin

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Collective bronchitis during Dies Bildnis really reminded me of the essence of The Live Opera Experience

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Admiring Iván Fischer's commitment to redoing everything he's done but like, 80% worse

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Jasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Tens of thousands are expected to attend the funeral of the genocidaire Mladic in Belgrade today, who will be buried with full military honors by the Serbian state. All of this for a thug who lived and died as a coward, as I wrote for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/th...

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The House Ratko Mladić Could Not Destroy

Ratko Mladić, the commander in charge of the Srebrenica genocide and architect of the Sarajevo siege, died serving a life sentence. He died a coward, much as his political progeny today still live as ...

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Favorite recent Bru Zane discovery is that not only did they not bother to specify which Michel Carré is responsible for the Silver Belle au bois dormant libretto (hint: fils, not père who's been dead for three decades by its premiere), their database also links all of JR's works to SR's page

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I know the answer is, straightforwardly, homophobia, by why is tenor Adriano a thing. sounds downright awful youtu.be/Ef1OrH4KDnY?...

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Rienzi, WWV 49, Act I: Act I: O Schwester, sprich, was dir geschah (Rienzi, Irene, Adriano)

YouTube video by René Kollo - Topic

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Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

2/Er, jetzt 22 Jahre alt, muss dringend operiert werden. Er wird immer schlimme Narben im Gesicht tragen, aber noch könnte sein Augenlicht gerettet werden. Liebe Leute, helft meinem Freund Anton bitte! www.paypal.com/pools/c/9s8V...

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ANTONS EYE SURGERY

I met Anton through a photography project about Ukrainian teenagers who had fled to Poland. Shortly before his 18th birthday, Anton left Ukraine and traveled to Poland, where he lived for a while in S...

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I wonder on which day the Bayreuther Festspiele kicks off next July

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The chances of a decade-old Zauberflöte cast featuring the major cast members of Bayreuth's first Rienzi are slim but never zero

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Mark Berry @boulezian.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026

Salzburg Festival (5) - Ariadne auf Naxos, 24 August 2026 boulezian.blogspot.com/2026/08/salz...

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Irene Roberts doing back-to-back Isoldes and Sieglindes next summer is some ambitious planning

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

My stats for satisfying productions AND satisfying very gay productions I've seen this season are pretty abysmal, though at least partially on me for centering my experiences on the Wiener Staatsoper

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Qobuz listing the Sutherland/Wunderlich Alcina under their "ideal opera collection"......... We have radically different definitions of "ideal"

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

ready to get hurt again no question about it <3

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sestoinfedele.bsky.social @sestoinfedele.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

wasn't Adriano also supposed to get double cast for the Rienzi run. let Holloway breathe

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