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Tim Ashley

@timashash.bsky.social

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Writer, critic, gay, likes decadent French, German and Italian literature, can sometimes be found slouching around in leather. I live in Sussex by the sea. #TeamRacine #TeamFlaubert #TeamFranzWerfel

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · Aug 25

Still can't quite get over the thrill of finally seeing my Gramophone Collection piece on Debussy's Le martyre de Saint Sébastien in print.

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 11h

Always wise. And in this case, anyway, I just can't! 😊

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 11h

It really does, doesn't it ........

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 12h

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 13h

It's a wonderful film, almost Wagnerian, and among the greatest versions of Dracula ever done. Coppola is thinking of Der fliegende Holländer, which influenced Stoker: he wrote a play on the original legend; in the novel there are parallels between the arrival of Dracula's ship and the Dutchman's

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 14h

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 14h

Joan Sutherland died on this day fifteen years ago. Too many astonishing performances and recordings, really, to choose just one, but her 1965 Semiramide is simply staggering. Here's the Act II duet with Marilyn Horne.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=prKb...

Rossini - Semiramide - Act II Arsace - Semiramide duet - Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne (1965)

YouTube video by vicmanu

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 17h

Today is World Mental Health Day. So please remember it's ok not to be ok. It's ok to talk about it. And it's ok to ask for help if you're struggling and need it. If I can, you can. And it can save and change your life.

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 23h

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Oh! Je ne le savais pas! Pardon, Frédéric! Les chaussures, sans lacets, sont très beaus et chics!!

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 2d

Très beau. Un peu cher. Les bottines et les chaussures sont merveilleuses. J'aime la couleur. Timberland est toujours de haute qualité.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 4d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 4d

The great Maria Jeritza, creator of Strauss's Ariadne and Empress, and Korngold's Marietta, was born on this day in 1887. Here is some footage - from her only film, Großfürstin Alexandra (1933) - of her singing Pace, pace mio Dio! from Verdi's La forza del destino
www.youtube.com/watch?v=82n-...

Maria Jeritza: Arie der Leonore (La Forza del Destino) 1933

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 6d

NA is wonderful, and I love it. Mansfield Park is her darkest, I think,and by some way. A great, great novel ......

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 6d

I know the feeling. But that actually *really is* my favourite Austen (except sometimes when I read Mansfield Park, lol ......)

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 6d

😢 Triste ........

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 6d

Bon samedi, Frédéric! 😘

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 7d

Oh, Je le lirai un jour, Antonio, je te le promets!

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 7d

Absolument! Chef d'oeuvre, je crois. Un opéra préféré. Je le connais presque par coeur ........

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 7d

'C'est beaucoup de constance, et je ne me plains pas: et tu vas t'en aller, libre, loin de mes bras ....' Scène remarquable et merveilleuse.

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 7d

Patricia Routledge, in 1987, singing Take Care of This House from Leonard Bernstein's and Alan Jay Lerner's musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, which she created on Broadway in 1976. There will never be anyone like her. RIP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BVC...

PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue "Take Care of This House"

YouTube video by aurora spiderwoman

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 12d

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 13d

Oh, dear. And all of it apparently umpteen months old, also. Parroting the line about 2 million more NHS appointments as well, I notice: I don't know where they are because you certainly can't get one down here ........

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 14d

Incredible, incredible artist. She was my first Tosca, at Covent Garden in 1978 (with Bergonzi as Cavaradossi, imagine). One of the greatest performances I heard in my life, and no, as far as I'm concerned, has come remotely close to her in it since.

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 14d

Merveilleux, Antonio. 🖤