Mark Berry
@boulezian.bsky.social
Musicology and history (intellectual, political, etc.). Writing a book on the complete Mozart operas in eighteenth-century historical context. Views, for better or worse, my own. He/him/his https://boulezian.blogspot.com/
Le nozze di Figaro, Opéra national de Paris, 15 November 2025 boulezian.blogspot.com/2025/11/le-n...
November 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Le nozze di Figaro, Opéra national de Paris, 15 November 2025 boulezian.blogspot.com/2025/11/le-n...
Style Napoléon III…
November 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Style Napoléon III…
Three books awaiting me on returning home.
November 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Three books awaiting me on returning home.
I looked at ‘Truth Social’, never having done so before. This is - honestly - what I found at the top of Trump’s account. I think I’ll leave it.
November 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I looked at ‘Truth Social’, never having done so before. This is - honestly - what I found at the top of Trump’s account. I think I’ll leave it.
Les Noces de Figaro
November 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Les Noces de Figaro
Café gourmand (cc. @carolinefrmus.bsky.social)
November 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Café gourmand (cc. @carolinefrmus.bsky.social)
Paying my respects
November 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Paying my respects
So when she was Leader of the Opposition, four years before the onset of her asset-stripping, community-destroying, lower-middle-class ‘respectability’ reign of terror. And we were members of the European Communities.
November 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
So when she was Leader of the Opposition, four years before the onset of her asset-stripping, community-destroying, lower-middle-class ‘respectability’ reign of terror. And we were members of the European Communities.
Day off (long planned) in Paris
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Day off (long planned) in Paris
I think another great difference - without flattering US media - has been the unrelenting radical-Right onslaught from UK newspapers: truly the worst in the world. Far more common also for these journalists then to become politicians, though I have the impression that may be changing in the US.
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I think another great difference - without flattering US media - has been the unrelenting radical-Right onslaught from UK newspapers: truly the worst in the world. Far more common also for these journalists then to become politicians, though I have the impression that may be changing in the US.
The Line of Beauty
November 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The Line of Beauty
Well, you said it.
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Well, you said it.
According to Wikipedia, Sir’ Robbie Gibb was ‘recruited and trained’ by a Russian fascist organisation that collaborated with Nazi occupying forces.
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
According to Wikipedia, Sir’ Robbie Gibb was ‘recruited and trained’ by a Russian fascist organisation that collaborated with Nazi occupying forces.
The Makropulos Case
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The Makropulos Case
How very odd. The heir to … Nick Clegg.
November 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
How very odd. The heir to … Nick Clegg.
Anyone paying attention gave up on the BBC years ago.
November 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Anyone paying attention gave up on the BBC years ago.
R.I.P. James Stevens Curl (1937-2025). A magnificently reactionary architectural historian, with whom I agreed on relatively little, but who was old-school enough for that not slightly to matter. He looked and dressed, in trademark 97-piece suit, like Edward VII, and was likewise a bon viveur, ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
R.I.P. James Stevens Curl (1937-2025). A magnificently reactionary architectural historian, with whom I agreed on relatively little, but who was old-school enough for that not slightly to matter. He looked and dressed, in trademark 97-piece suit, like Edward VII, and was likewise a bon viveur, ever
Well, then. It's 'lock her up' time, I guess.
November 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Well, then. It's 'lock her up' time, I guess.