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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 10/10/2026

Take A Deep Dive Into Tony Palmer's "Wagner. Plus Watch Complete www.the-wagnerian.com/2026/10/take...

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 12/03/2026

The weather maybe dreadful, the journey longish, but Opera Norths Mozart is always worth the bother

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 14/01/2026

Greenland, Nato, Vance, and Rubio. Of the first and latter two, I was oddly reminded of this. No idea why. I doubt they would, neither. "You would play upon me; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass,"

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 31/07/2025

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 31/07/2025

From now on any Picasso or Arthur Rackham paintings posted here will have an alternative tweet containing this image:

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 31/07/2025

Given Bluesky has censored Arthur Rackham as adult content again, I am curious to see what might happen to something from Picasso's Blue period, so please forgive the random La Vie (1903)

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 20/07/2025

But I assume you are seeing it like this?

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 20/07/2025

Being old I tend to think everyone sees it like this - and this is mainly how I plan it

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 18/07/2025

I so want this: Two Men Contemplating the Moon Caspar David Friedrich

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 29/06/2025

@crisisroompod.bsky.social Hey @AmberRudd, heard you're now running things at @Ryanair .Get ready for some wild rides with O'Leary! Maybe brush up on those political 'landing' skills? 📉🛫 #NewGig #BoardroomDrama

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 15/03/2025

First live Wagner of the year. A bit later than normal but I'm sure @operanorth.co.uk will make it worth the wait

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 02/03/2025

Winston Churchill, at the Whitehouse, 1942 - such an ungrateful man:

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 10/02/2025

Woke up this morning to find this had fallen from my bookshelf. I think it's calling for a reread

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 06/01/2025

If nothing else, my rescue will be both "suave" and intriguing.

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 25/11/2024

Well, there's two tickets booked for something special in March (Opera North)

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 16/11/2024

Getting to the Lowry early, pre Maguc Flute food and look who I bumped into

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 07/05/2024

From Tom Service's Music as Alchemy: Journeys with Great Conductors and their Orchestras listen.tidal.com/album/283331...

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 21/04/2024

It has long been held that the concept of ageing, as with other aspects of social being, is a construct that ‘reflect[s] the beliefs and values found in a specific culture at a particular period in history’ (Featherstone and Hepworth 1995, pp. 30–31)

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 25/02/2024

That was annoying. Got to the web landing page, noted it's been updated and had to go looking for the web app link. Anyway, it is Sunday and I have been playing with colourization software

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 12/02/2024

How Bing - with a little guidance -- represents the Waldweben

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 09/12/2023

Discuss? bigthink.com/high-culture...

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 07/12/2023

Good evening. Some people get a G&T when they get home from a hard day at work. Others...

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 29/11/2023

Not the centre, or even the theme of the poem, but when winter is, as it is today, I find an odd solace in the opening of "Langland"'s Middle English poem, "Piers the Ploughman". "Translated" here by Goodridge.

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 26/11/2023

Shelley, "Mont Blanc" "Mont Blanc yet gleams on high:—the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights, And many sounds, and much of life and death. In the calm darkness of the moonless nights, In the lone glare of day, the snows descend Upon that Mountain; none beholds them there...

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 26/11/2023

My evening: open.qobuz.com/album/509993...

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 23/11/2023

@wagnermetal.bsky.social Well look who's found their way here! Might we recommend you follow? As if you wouldn't already

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 22/11/2023

Well, it is nearly Christmas: www.booktrust.org.uk

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 19/11/2023

Good evening: Liebig Tradecard S849 - Hans Sachs

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 18/11/2023

Wagner the, um, "gag" writer: Cosimas Diaries. November 15, 1878: "FR. had a good night, and he goes to his work; at lunchtime, he fetches me and says he has a riddle for the children: What animals are always having picnics? Hens, because they picken [peck] and nicken [nod] at the same time!"

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 18/11/2023

Cosmia's Diaries: 06-05-69 Prof. Nietzsche, the philologist, announces a visit, R. wishes to put him off, I feel it is better that he come." Diary continued in Richard Wagner's handwriting:] "A bearable evening spent with Nietzsche. Said good night about 11."

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 14/11/2023

You wouldn;t get a Sigfried being able to pose this well, in the 21st century: Jean de Reszke as Siegfried. 1896

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 14/11/2023

Did I say Good Evening, already? Tannhauser, final scene, Bayrueth 1930

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 14/11/2023

Good Evening: The house of Wagner's birth:

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 09/11/2023

Good evening: Alfred Roller's set design for Act 2 of Tristan

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 06/11/2023

Looking to book next year's Wagner in the UK. So far: Dutchman at ROH, Tristan at Glyndebourne, Walkure at Longborough, Siegfried at ENO

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 06/11/2023

According to my phone, "This is what you were doing this time last year in images" service, this was me. I really don't photograph well. Alas, I also don't compose as well:

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The Wagnerian 🎼 @the-wagnerian.com · 04/11/2023

Was going to save this till tomorrow but its too good to wait: iebigbilder 1889, Serie 135. Opernszenen (Wagner) - 1 Die Walküre (Siegfried labt Siegmund)

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