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John Fenster
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I love bodies of water and opera and other music/theater. Cats, baking, tea. He/him. Westchester County.
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Finally broke down and wore a coat. I don't have to spend much time outside between this train station and the opera, but I can!
Man in a plain khaki trench coat on an outdoor train platform after sunset. Covered and lit stairs are in the background. He has large glasses and a larger scarf
November 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Screenshot from the trailer for Arabella. The Deutsche Oper Berlin logo is showing up covering the two characters that are embracing. Both are wearing trousers and black shirts, one has a trans flag draped over his legs
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Before attending Masquerade the only version of Phantom of the Opera I've seen was the semi-staged 25th anniversary (on video)
Black lace mask over a program for Masquerade, held against a window papered over with old (seeming) newspapers. A nearby headline reads PANIC AT THE OPERA POPULAIRE! A man in a black velvet tuxedo stands with a woman in a black and white dress, in front of a concrete angel statue. Dramatic red lighting comes from behind the statue. Both humans wear black lace masks
November 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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The opera ended just before midnight; only the lead cast stuck around for bows
Metropolitan Opera stage with seven singers and the conductor holding hands for bows. The stage represents a residence hotel and has a grand staircase and a sitting room
November 16, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Arabella 2: The New Kingdom
Too close up view of a bright chandelier, hanging low from the ceiling of the Metropolitan Opera House. The gold stage curtain and several rows of seats filling up with people and phones are in the background.
November 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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A little bit of snow is sticking to the cedars
A very little bit of snow sticking to some branches of close together cedar trees
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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NYC! I have a spare ticket to the Modigliani Quartet at Carnegie Hall in the Weill Recital Hall tonight. 7:30 PM. Kurtag, Beethoven, & Brahms. I'm still going, my friend can't make it!
Screenshot from Carnegie Hall website. Has today's date (Nov 7) and a picture of a string quartet in suits (no ties) holding their instruments
November 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Would love to see a leek!
Screenshot with a large green circle with a white checkmark. Text reads $50.00 sent. "SNAP replacement" We'll let Diego Bernal know. For some reason this does not show my name, username, etc, but the top bar with notifications and a time of 11:39 shows Screenshot of Activity page from PayPal. Most recent Completed is money sent to Diego Bernal. There is a small pfp which omg is fifteen years old, taken while watching the 2010 World Cup wearing a Netherlands jersey
November 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Maggie really loves her heater vent
Tabby cat lies on an wall-mounted electric heater vent Same cat, laying on her side, feet against the wall, making it look like the picture is miss-oriented.
November 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Laying in the sun, whining at the birds that come for the feeder, feeling the breeze and getting outside sniffs? She may never move. Figment popping up did not even phase her
Volta the tabby still in the windowsill. Sitting on the clear table against the window is a white and grey long hair Maine coon cat; he was recently staring out the window at the bright green scene with various bushes and a bird feeder but right now he is looking to the right, his head fully turned Medium hair tabby cat in browns with white stretched out across the entire windowsill. One of her back paws is sticking up, claws likely in the screen
October 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Volta going all out for lounging in the windowsill
Medium hair tabby cat in browns laying in the windowsill. She is against a fine screen, with a green bush bright in the sun Same tabby cat, now with a leg stretching further along the window. She's also looking at her camera showing off the white around her mouth, in her ruff, and on her paw. She is baking in the sun.
October 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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After intermission is also Pärt
Second page of the program. Tabula rasa (1977) Ludus - Silentium Midori, Violin Hans Christian Aavik, Violin Nico Muhly, Prepared Piano Fratres (1977; rev. 1992) Swansong (2013) Credo (1968) Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir Trinity Choir Nico Muhly, Piano
October 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Pärt at Carnegie Hall! This concert sold so quickly
View from high above of the mainstage at Carnegie Hall. The orchestra set up includes eight double basses, two pianos, a harp, an array of percussion instruments, plus additional chairs for other instrumentalists and choir Page from program. All works by Arvo Pärt Estonian Festival Orchestra Paavo Järvi, Artistic Director and Conductor Midori, Violin Hans Christian Aavik, Violin Nico Muhly, Piano Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir Tõnu Kaljuste, Director Trinity Choir Melissa Attebury, Director Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten (1977; rev. 1980) Perpetuum mobile (1963) La Sindone (2005; rev. 2022) Adam's Lament (2009) Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir INTERMISSION
October 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Well today I am drinking tea; show doesn't start until 8!
Focus is a red mug with yellow text in all caps reading I bet you think I'm drinking tea!?!. It is merch from the Broadway run of the musical The Drowsy Chaperone.
October 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Regret to inform that this is also Figment
A gray and white Maine Coon cat laying on his back on an ottoman with his blank green eyes staring up at a toy dangling off camera
October 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Serious bird watching
Gray and white long haired Maine Coon cat stares fixedly out an unseen window off to the right. Part of a bush is on the other side of a closed window behind him
October 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Maybe it'll turn out alright this time
Pic of the stage set for Hadestown. It is reminiscent of a bar, with raised positions for a few band members, small semi-circular risers, tables with chairs folded over them. Lots of wood and neutral colors.
October 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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My first time at Symphony Hall in Boston! It will not be my last (I have a ticket for the organ recital tonight, lol)
Man in a grey houndstooth jacket holding a Boston Symphony program in the first balcony at Symphony Hall. It is a very old building (opened ~1900) with a rectangular shape. Much of the chorus, orchestra in stage after the concert, accepting applause. The four soloists in dark formal outfits and the orchestra and chorus conductors are also present.
October 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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What a cast
Screenshot from BSO website with cast and problem details Boston Symphony Orchestra -Andris Nelsons, conductor Eleanor Lyons, Soprano Wiebeke Lehmkuhl, Mezzo-soprano Klaus Florian Vogt, Tenor Franz-Josef Selig, Bass Tanglewood Festival Chorus -Anthony Blake Clark, guest conductor BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis
October 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Sunday afternoon at the NY Philharmonic with Boulez and Debussy
Digital wall in the lobby, showing today's program. Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano BOULEZ Notation IV, Rythmique, for Solo Piano Notation IV, Rythmique, for Orchestra DEBUSSY Gigues, from Images for Orchestra BOULEZ Notation VII, Hiératique, for Solo Piano Notation VII, Hiératique, for Orchestra DEBUSSY Rondes de printemps, from Images for Orchestra BOULEZ Notation II, Très vif, for Solo Piano Notation II, Très vif, for Orchestra DEBUSSY Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra La Mer: Trois Esquisses symphoniques
October 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Pic from a few days ago when I was here earlier in the evening
Right side of the facade of the Metropolitan Opera House with their banner for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay hanging. It's still light out.
October 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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My first NYPHIL concert of the season!
Program page held up with a partially filled stage in the background. New York Philharmonic September 27 & 30, 2025 Marta Gardolińska, Conductor (New York Philharmonic debut, though there is also an insert noting that she had to withdraw due to illness so David Robertson is conducting in her place). Leila Josefowicz, Violin Mason BATES (b. 1977) Devil's Radio (2014; New York Premiere SZYMANOWSKI (1882-1937) Concerto No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra Op. 61 (1932-33) Intermission LUTOSŁAWSKI (1913-94) Concerto for Orchestra (1950-54)
September 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Every day, another choice
Two drink koozies, both olive green with a peachy pink font. One says (in all caps) Have fun. The other reads Don't die.
August 31, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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I think I expected more
Framing a TV is the wall behind, looking charcoal in the dim light. The border of the TV seems tiny to non-existent. The TV features a man in a yellowish green striped suit sitting on the ground, and a woman in a white shirt and a short black skirt sitting off a table. Between them on stage is a projection of the letter M; it is followed by another letter but it is not clear which. Displayed above this stage picture is a line from the subtitles: [ Singing in German ].
August 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Now they're both settled and I still want to get up
The tortoiseshell cat has not really moved; the grey and white cat has gone into a curl over the feet of the man, only bothering the other cat a little
August 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM