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A lovely article - sadly behind a paywall - about the late Irish soprano Cara O'Sullivan who died a few years ago at the young age of 58, stolen by early onset dementia.

Here she is in rehearsal with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra singing Danny Boy: http://tinyurl.com/tskufu38
A marmite song I know, but the way her voice effortlessly rises above the full force of the orchestra is astounding, & her facial expressions are so beautiful.

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/2023/12/12/cara-osullivans-irish-opera-legacy-an-almost-mythical-figure-tall-imperious-and-hilarious/

Do something for the and install an right now!

Ads can see you too and they collect a lot of data of you, which will be processed, sold, processed again and sometimes an is involved to process it even more and create connections with other data.

The CO2 output of all this processes is really high. You can end it by installing an add-on called for your browser:

It is available for...

: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm

: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/ublock/

And it already blocks a lot of stuff after installing. But I would recommend to go to the settings and activate some more filters, like the annoyance or social media filter.

btw. you will love the element zapper. It allows you to select an item on a website and just hide it! …

Dear and browser people, how do you feel about getting classical music posts in your feed? Or do you use but not follow the hashtags? Would you consider using a different one like ?

I'd love a way to filter out the Opera browser posts but haven't been able to find a useful filter which isn't unhelpfully broad (like the word browser; sometimes info comes through which is useful like Firefox's cookie jar thing).

✒️My best friend Volodya is in love with my little sister Olya. They have been in my life since forever, and I want them to be happy so badly. They will get married. I’m so happy for them! She will be Olga Lenskaya! I can’t wait!

I’ve been sitting at the window, staring, thinking… maybe his friend Eugene will be his best man?

I have to see him again.

https://www.staatstheater-darmstadt.de/veranstaltungen/eugen-onegin.1149/

(That’s Onegin in the photo!)

👓 Hi guys, it’s Tatjana Larina! ✒️
I just met my sister’s boyfriend’s best friend!
He’s a real dandy from St Petersburg, so worldly!🎩
Tall, dark, brooding, he’s like totally the perfect man …
His name is Yevgény. Yevgény Onégin. If he gets married, his wife would be Onegina … what a beautiful name …

You HAVE to meet him! Like, yesterday. Seriously. You know what, come to the Staatstheater Darmstadt, Saturday after next! We will all be there!

https://www.staatstheater-darmstadt.de/veranstaltungen/eugen-onegin.1149/#event-7711

commented on Manon Lescaut by Antoine-François Prévost

Antoine-François Prévost: Manon Lescaut (EBook, Project Gutenberg) 2 stars

(posted this to mastodon at the time) am reading the novel of Manon Lescaut, mostly because Dumas' heroine who became Verdi's Violetta owned a copy and I wanted to understand the references in Dumas' #LaDameAuxCamillas better; but also in hopes I might learn to appreciate Massanet and Puccini's Manon operas. Instead, wherein Massanet's upsets me because the young man seems noble and good and his life is ruined by this love, I'm now fed up with his self-involvement. This was not the plan. #opera #ReadingOpera

PS La Dame Aux Camillas is brilliant. Read that instead. Ebook for free on Project Gutenberg. Search for Dumas.