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itinerant baritone

Joined August 2021
After a short but unregrettable period as a vegan last year I have some charcuterie porn to share with you all again…
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We’ve had a couple of returns for tonight’s opening performance. Snap ‘em up quick: lucretia.info/tickets
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If you missed it, there are a small number of tickets left for our addition performances of Die Walküre on 12th July (conducted by @harry_sever, our Ring Cycle Conducting Fellow) and 14th July (conducted by Anthony Negus) 🎟️ Next up.. La bohème 🤩 📸 @MatthewWEllis
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Meet and greet for #BYOLucretia - the first time I have ever heard a round of applause for a model box. 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
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General booking is now open peeps, go get your tickets: lucretia.info
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British Youth Opera ⁦@BYOpera⁩ has announced new training programmes for early-career creatives taking place over the summer. They’ll stage a full-scale production of The Rape of Lucretia in a tunnel shaft in Rotherhithe, Aug 12-15. lucretia.info
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Last year we commissioned research into what young directors, designers and conductors needed to help build their careers. Guess what? They told us that they need opportunties to create work and be seen... (1/7)
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PROTEST #SaveOurWNO 🎶 Tuesday, 21st May at 1pm Senedd, Cardiff Bay An invitation from the #Orchestra & #Chorus of @WelshNatOpera to join in song next week. Please share &let’s show the @WelshGovernment & @GOVUK the strength of feeling against dismantling #Wales’s opera company.
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I know everyone is very angry about this, but please PLEASE fill it in. The only thing that will matter is data, not tweets. I live in hope that this data can then be presented to the next government in order to redress the current sh*tshow.
Freelancers📣 We've launched a survey to help us understand the working conditions and experiences of freelancers in the creative & cultural sector It’s vital we hear from as many people as possible, so please share this survey with your networks too! buff.ly/3tk5TPV
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Just two days until applications close for all of our 2024 training programmes. Here's a reminder of what you've only got 48 hours left to sign up for:
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The new BYO hub is live, which means applications for ALL of our 2024 live programmes are also live. Singers, stage managers, directors, designers, music staff – they can all submit an application now. hub.byo.org.uk/programmes-2
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Big news Thursday! We've launched the first online opera training hub in the UK. And we've called it... BYO hub. We believe it will open doors for people who are starting or thinking about starting a career in opera. byo.org.uk/articles/introduc…
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We're on the lookout for new trustees to join our board, particularly people with experience in fundraising, finance or education. Does that sound like you? Does it sound like anyone you know? byo.org.uk/board-members
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Please share far and wide with your networks! Deadline 10 Sept!
We're on the lookout for new trustees to join our board, particularly people with experience in fundraising, finance or education. Does that sound like you? Does it sound like anyone you know? byo.org.uk/board-members
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Tonight’s the night! Our amazing trainees will join forces with the @royalphilorch at the world famous @3choirs to perform the ‘morality’, #ThePilgrimsProgress - and it is sounding *heavenly* 👼🏼
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I’m shoring this fragment against my ruin
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. apnews.com/article/super-mar…
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The fantastic BBC Singers, Britain’s only professional chamber choir, to be disbanded in July to save about £1.5m, only a tad above Gary Lineker’s annual BBC salary. Strange priority for a supposedly public-service broadcaster.
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“What does he do?” ‘He’s a conductor’ “No but, like, for a job?” ‘That is his…’ “No but how does he earn a LIVING?!” ‘He’s literally been knighted for…’ “I can’t put that, I’m putting farmer, it’s done now”
Dorset farmer to conduct music at King's coronation bbc.in/3JhtMvF
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