It’s no secret that it’s hard to make it as a conductor or director in opera. But why is the career so difficult?
I’m running a survey to understand how conductors & directors navigate the field—and what could make it better.
Comment “survey” & I’ll send you the link when available!
#operasky
Survey
Ah Seamill! Another early childhood memory. 🤎
People standing on a mountain.
The Sony World Photography Awards 2026 exhibition returns to Somerset House today📷
Discover the best photographs from the past year in a diverse display of over 300 pictures✨
📅17 April - 4 May
www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/son...
💬 "Today only a tiny proportion of medical students come from working class families, so this announcement is a welcome commitment to change."
The Dept of Health and Social Care has announced a package of measures to break down barriers to medical careers for people from disadvantaged backgrounds ⬇️
Former Radio 1 DJ and Live Aid presenter Andy Kershaw dies aged 66.
R.I.P 🌷
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez:
“The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.”
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Did you watch Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action!
Sick of sewage? 💩💩💩
Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
JD Vance clearly plagiarizing titles of two bell hooks books.
I thought I couldn't have more contempt for him. #Lit
Meanwhile in the USA 🇺🇸 …
Just when you thought the office of POTUS couldn’t be any further debased than it already has been, the latest incumbent, reaches to further embarrassing and humiliating depths.
How long will Americans continue to endure this?
@alexmassie.bluesky.social
This is excellent @tobyfaber.bsky.social ! 😂😂😂
10 years on, still one of my favourite, and certainly most dramatic photos of Parliament Hill, taken at dusk, on Good Friday, 25 March, 2016.
#goodfriday #parliamenthill #hampsteadheath #norflunden #london #easter
📷: @kenneththarp.bsky.social
I had such a wonderful time on @quietriotpod.bsky.social w Alex & Naomi. A marathon chat covering so much ground. Such a clever engaging podcast - proper brain food & good for the soul. Thank you for having me on 🙏🏽
Enough's enough! It should have been full halt stop at the FIRST ChatGPT suicide! Why is this an acceptable cost of this technology! Moral bankruptcy!
Palantir, the controversial U.S. company working with ICE and the Israeli military, has access to our private data via NHS databases. We need the Government to trigger the break clause on their contract NOW. 🚨 Sign and share below. 👇🏾
38d.gs/sitl
I love this photo!
There is something so special about this architecture, and it resonates so powerfully for me, as the background to my early childhood memories of growing up in Glasgow.
Mind you, back in the day I remember these buildings being much darker and sootier than this gleaming red!
‘The Temple, Wanstead Park.
#EastLondon
‘The Temple, Wanstead Park.
#EastLondon
In bocca al lupo! 🎵🎶🎵
I love this photo!
There is something so special about this architecture, and it resonates so powerfully for me, as the background to my early childhood memories of growing up in Glasgow.
Mind you, back in the day I remember these buildings being much darker and sootier than this gleaming red!
I’m sure we had a No white gloves hashtag at one point? A classic example here
With thanks to the wonderful @kenneththarp.bsky.social
Meanwhile in the USA 🇺🇸 …
"The oil crisis is exactly what the net zero brigade wants"
These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."
If you’ve ever lost yourself in the all-encompassing, compulsively readable 5-volume The Cazalet Chronicles you’ll need no further recommendation from me. But there’s so much more to Elizabeth Jane Howard. Her startling The Long View is, I swear, written with a scalpel.
Happy birthday to her.
Meanwhile in the USA 🇺🇸 …
Insanity indeed.
Sarah Mullally was installed on Wednesday as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most senior cleric in the Church of England and spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, which includes some 85 million Anglicans around the world. She is the first woman to hold the title. nyti.ms/47nyAg8
A special one for archivists and librarians!
@jtullock.bsky.social
Sunset over three Glasgow shipyards as seen from the Riverside Museum.
Cont./
#glasgow #sunset #glasgowhistory #glasgowsunset #clydebuilt
Just one more sleep❗️
A fabulous morning, afternoon and evening of concerts, celebrating African classical music.
Catch the @africanseries.bsky.social at @wigmore-hall.org.uk on Saturday 21 March 2026.
Tickets and info 👉🏾 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/search?term=...