Macbeth
Norma
Götterdämmerung
Der Freischütz
Carmen
Cendrillon
The Queen of Spades
Demon
The Bartered Bride
Jenufa

and one for luck:

Le Comte Ory

Having sung chorus in all of them didn't affect my decision, honest 🙂

I was puzzled by this too. Was it a misreading?

It's an old joke, but if you phone up your local cinema to find what time they're showing Melania - The Movie they'll ask what time can you make it.
Not a single seat for any of the 14 showings has been sold at Vue in Castleford - I checked.

Eggs. One. Basket.

Climate change obvs.

Depends if your talking invading Greenland or your latest gig.

There isn't one, alas.

Recently, senior executives at Salesforce have admitted, both internally and publicly, that they massively overestimated Al's capabilities. They have found that Al simply can't cope with the complex nature of customer service and totally fails at nuanced issues, escalations, and long-tail customer problems. They even say that it has caused a marked decline in service quality and far more complaints. But the problems go far deeper than that. Both employees and executives have said that the company is wasting countless resources on firefighting to stabilise operations since the mass Al layoff. Employees have to spend so much time stepping in to correct the wildly wrong Al-generated responses that Al is wasting more time than it saves. In other words, this Al reduces productivity, not increases it.

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What a surprise!

So was I. Tremendous.

Sad news. He really knew his stuff.

Strange. I was in the back of the centre stalls and heard the singers perfectly. There are some dead spots in the Barbican acoustic.

Splendid

FT reader here.

Are you familiar with Rowan Moore's insightful books?

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I'm glad you enjoyed it! I certainly enjoyed singing in it. Great shame about Muriel.

Behold! The sea itself.

I meant to include VW's Sea Symphony, which I sang in yesterday!

I agree with your first three. I'd probably go with Shostakovitch 10. Not sure which Beethoven I'd go for. Maybe 9? Mozart and Haydn have to be there somewhere. Others? So many to choose from! Mahler 5, 6 & 8 amazing too. Hard choice!

Too true

Masterpiece.

Nice variant to Able was I ere I saw Elba

it's hard to explain. almost like they're on tramlines and the effect is unavoidable.

You're not wrong.

It's hard to believe now that he was ever Labour.

Are you keeping it going single handedly?

The AI industry is well on its way to annihilation anyway.

Somebody had to. The world is a poorer place.

Singing this at Blackheath Sunday. Can't wait.