Simon Holden
@simonjh.bsky.social
Opera and noodles gay. Bachtrack reviewer. Auckland NZ
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Luxon:
Trusts Donald Trump
Doesn't trust Māori with Three Waters
Trusts Donald Trump
Doesn't trust Māori with Three Waters
March 3, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Luxon:
Trusts Donald Trump
Doesn't trust Māori with Three Waters
Trusts Donald Trump
Doesn't trust Māori with Three Waters
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what's the best email you've ever received? i'll go first.
November 30, 2023 at 3:05 PM
what's the best email you've ever received? i'll go first.
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why 100% complete one task when you can 64% complete many tasks
January 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
why 100% complete one task when you can 64% complete many tasks
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Such a mightily dark vision! Completely lacks the shamelessness of a lyric Salome, yet it offers so much! So imposing that it's a miracle Jochanaan doesn't just yield and dutifully decapitate himself so she could have at him.
open.spotify.com/album/54QmeQ...
open.spotify.com/album/54QmeQ...
Richard Strauss: Salome, Op. 54, TrV 215
Inge Borkh · Album · 2015 · 38 songs
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January 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Such a mightily dark vision! Completely lacks the shamelessness of a lyric Salome, yet it offers so much! So imposing that it's a miracle Jochanaan doesn't just yield and dutifully decapitate himself so she could have at him.
open.spotify.com/album/54QmeQ...
open.spotify.com/album/54QmeQ...
A pretty great Falstaff on video, with Maestri in top form and a young (and kinda cute) Florez as Fenton. A very "trad" production but pulled off effortlessly. And no one conducts this opera like Muti
January 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM
A pretty great Falstaff on video, with Maestri in top form and a young (and kinda cute) Florez as Fenton. A very "trad" production but pulled off effortlessly. And no one conducts this opera like Muti
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Right now, #Puccini with Boom and O'Neill #Verdi #Mascagni and #Leocavallo from #Wellington https://buff.ly/40e91en #wch
Puccini with Boom and O'Neill, Verdi, Mascagni and Leocavallo from Wellington - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
Eliza Boom, soprano, Paul O'Neill, tenor, and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by José Luis Gómez perform: VERDI: Force of Destiny, Overture. PUCCINI: From Tosca: Recondita armonia; Vissi…
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December 30, 2024 at 7:00 AM
Right now, #Puccini with Boom and O'Neill #Verdi #Mascagni and #Leocavallo from #Wellington https://buff.ly/40e91en #wch
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Season’s Greetings from Wigmore Hall ✨
Our Christmas gift to you is that six Schubert songs performed by Ailish Tynan, Anja Mittermüller, Marcus Farnsworth and James Baillieu at Wigmore Hall are available to watch on our YouTube now 🎁
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysY5OsNWFMM
Our Christmas gift to you is that six Schubert songs performed by Ailish Tynan, Anja Mittermüller, Marcus Farnsworth and James Baillieu at Wigmore Hall are available to watch on our YouTube now 🎁
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysY5OsNWFMM
A Special Selection of Schubert Song from Wigmore Hall
YouTube video by Wigmore Hall
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December 25, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Season’s Greetings from Wigmore Hall ✨
Our Christmas gift to you is that six Schubert songs performed by Ailish Tynan, Anja Mittermüller, Marcus Farnsworth and James Baillieu at Wigmore Hall are available to watch on our YouTube now 🎁
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysY5OsNWFMM
Our Christmas gift to you is that six Schubert songs performed by Ailish Tynan, Anja Mittermüller, Marcus Farnsworth and James Baillieu at Wigmore Hall are available to watch on our YouTube now 🎁
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysY5OsNWFMM
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Time for this yearly dose of glorious Christmas camp (including Kozena's truly demented Santa Claus is Coming to Town 😂): www.operaonvideo.com/christmas-in...
Christmas in Vienna 2024 Erwin Schrott, Jonathan Tetelman, Magdalena Kožená - Opera on Video
PROGRAMM - Orchestra Medley (ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien) - Come all ye faithful (Wiener Sängerknaben, Wiener Singakademie) - Begrüßung (Stefan Jürgens) - Gaudete (Magdalena Kožená, Jonathan Tet...
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December 23, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Time for this yearly dose of glorious Christmas camp (including Kozena's truly demented Santa Claus is Coming to Town 😂): www.operaonvideo.com/christmas-in...
Been getting stuck into this French Vepres. Never heard of the singers but the men in particular are pretty great?! More interesting than the (pretty bland) Levine, better tenor than the Muti - is this my go-to recording now?
December 21, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Been getting stuck into this French Vepres. Never heard of the singers but the men in particular are pretty great?! More interesting than the (pretty bland) Levine, better tenor than the Muti - is this my go-to recording now?
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Frances Alda (born 1879, pictured here in 1909) was a star soprano who often sang opposite Caruso, clearly loved fashion and her dog, and in her old age wrote a book called "Men, Women, and Tenors", which is available for free on Internet Archive. archive.org/details/menw...
December 19, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Frances Alda (born 1879, pictured here in 1909) was a star soprano who often sang opposite Caruso, clearly loved fashion and her dog, and in her old age wrote a book called "Men, Women, and Tenors", which is available for free on Internet Archive. archive.org/details/menw...
A delightful recording of a delightful opera!
December 15, 2024 at 3:27 AM
A delightful recording of a delightful opera!
I'm a pretty big Vivica fan and she's great here; technique is unreal! Probably more suited to Rossini, where the embellishments especially do it for me.
December 14, 2024 at 9:46 AM
I'm a pretty big Vivica fan and she's great here; technique is unreal! Probably more suited to Rossini, where the embellishments especially do it for me.
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If you’re outside the U.S. it’s weird to immediately recognize the extreme American-ness of the UNH CEO murder and see how it's glossed over in the U.S. discourse:
He had a DIY gun made with a legally sold kit and shot the CEO of a healthcare company because of its egregious business practices.
He had a DIY gun made with a legally sold kit and shot the CEO of a healthcare company because of its egregious business practices.
December 13, 2024 at 11:15 AM
If you’re outside the U.S. it’s weird to immediately recognize the extreme American-ness of the UNH CEO murder and see how it's glossed over in the U.S. discourse:
He had a DIY gun made with a legally sold kit and shot the CEO of a healthcare company because of its egregious business practices.
He had a DIY gun made with a legally sold kit and shot the CEO of a healthcare company because of its egregious business practices.
Probably my favourite Cav (and favourite Karajan). Ravishing playing but also palpable sense of building tension towards the inevitable tragedy. Cossotto and Bergonzi are marvellous; the duet is ravishing but also devastating.
December 13, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Probably my favourite Cav (and favourite Karajan). Ravishing playing but also palpable sense of building tension towards the inevitable tragedy. Cossotto and Bergonzi are marvellous; the duet is ravishing but also devastating.
Maybe not as fun as Chailly, but I love this www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoVl...
Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie: V. Joie du sang des étoiles
YouTube video by Yuja Wang - Topic
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December 12, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Maybe not as fun as Chailly, but I love this www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoVl...
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Me: I will just relax for a few minutes by playing a mindless game on my phone
Phone: Cool, every 90 seconds you will just need to watch a little animated snuff film featuring a mother and child freezing to death, or a king slowly being crushed against a spiky wall by piles of falling rubble
Phone: Cool, every 90 seconds you will just need to watch a little animated snuff film featuring a mother and child freezing to death, or a king slowly being crushed against a spiky wall by piles of falling rubble
December 11, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Me: I will just relax for a few minutes by playing a mindless game on my phone
Phone: Cool, every 90 seconds you will just need to watch a little animated snuff film featuring a mother and child freezing to death, or a king slowly being crushed against a spiky wall by piles of falling rubble
Phone: Cool, every 90 seconds you will just need to watch a little animated snuff film featuring a mother and child freezing to death, or a king slowly being crushed against a spiky wall by piles of falling rubble
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happy stylish but illegal ikea monkey day to those who celebrate
December 9, 2023 at 1:23 PM
happy stylish but illegal ikea monkey day to those who celebrate
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Who benefits from children not learning about consent, Winston?
WHO?
WHO?
It's very important to note that these guidelines, which will be removed under this govt, teach students about their own bodies, and very importantly - consent.
They have been developed over long periods of time to help children and youths gain awareness that can protect themselves.
#NewZealand
They have been developed over long periods of time to help children and youths gain awareness that can protect themselves.
#NewZealand
December 9, 2024 at 11:17 PM
Who benefits from children not learning about consent, Winston?
WHO?
WHO?
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#NowSpinning Solti’s Strauss Die Frau Ohne Schatten. I love all of the recordings I’ve heard, but the orchestra is frankly incomparable here. A stupendous tour de force. #classicalmusic
December 7, 2024 at 3:40 PM
#NowSpinning Solti’s Strauss Die Frau Ohne Schatten. I love all of the recordings I’ve heard, but the orchestra is frankly incomparable here. A stupendous tour de force. #classicalmusic
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Elon Musk and Pete Hesgeth are the kind of tough alpha males that America needs, according to their mommies
December 4, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Elon Musk and Pete Hesgeth are the kind of tough alpha males that America needs, according to their mommies
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All strength to the Korean people as they resist the nascent directorship of paranoid nationalism
December 3, 2024 at 7:03 PM
All strength to the Korean people as they resist the nascent directorship of paranoid nationalism
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My thoughts on the Met’s amazing Frau ohne Schatten, for @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/390c...
www.ft.com/content/390c...
Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Metropolitan Opera is a magnificent, must-see event — review
Richard Strauss’s opera is staged and sung in New York with brilliance and clarity
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December 2, 2024 at 5:48 PM
My thoughts on the Met’s amazing Frau ohne Schatten, for @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/390c...
www.ft.com/content/390c...