Aidan Oliver
@aidanoliver.bsky.social
Chorus Director, Glyndebourne Opera
Thank you! And the children were brilliant - you should be very proud.
December 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Thank you! And the children were brilliant - you should be very proud.
A woman on a full train recently was using a tablet to play annoying cartoons *at full volume* to her child while she talked to her friend, and when I politely asked her to turn it down she just looked confused and said "What, is this a quiet carriage?" Bizarre.
December 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
A woman on a full train recently was using a tablet to play annoying cartoons *at full volume* to her child while she talked to her friend, and when I politely asked her to turn it down she just looked confused and said "What, is this a quiet carriage?" Bizarre.
Exactly this. Strangely the problem seems to have got much worse just this past year: people either look at me like I'm a weirdo if I ask them to turn it down/off, or immediately threaten violence. I'm not quite sure what's changed this year, but it's maddening.
December 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Exactly this. Strangely the problem seems to have got much worse just this past year: people either look at me like I'm a weirdo if I ask them to turn it down/off, or immediately threaten violence. I'm not quite sure what's changed this year, but it's maddening.
from 'One foot in Eden still, I stand', by Edwin Muir.
Set to music by Nicholas Maw as (imv) the most moving unaccompanied choral work of the twentieth century.
Set to music by Nicholas Maw as (imv) the most moving unaccompanied choral work of the twentieth century.
December 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
from 'One foot in Eden still, I stand', by Edwin Muir.
Set to music by Nicholas Maw as (imv) the most moving unaccompanied choral work of the twentieth century.
Set to music by Nicholas Maw as (imv) the most moving unaccompanied choral work of the twentieth century.
(Apologies, no hi-res image available for free. The detail up close in person is sensational.)
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
(Apologies, no hi-res image available for free. The detail up close in person is sensational.)
Just look at the comic-book sharp-braking horse and rider in mid-right foreground. Priceless.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Just look at the comic-book sharp-braking horse and rider in mid-right foreground. Priceless.
Standing before that painting in the Mauritshuis last year is a cherished memory now.
October 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Standing before that painting in the Mauritshuis last year is a cherished memory now.
The cover for their next Louvre heist
October 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The cover for their next Louvre heist
It's on Friday 5 December, at 7.30pm. Super team of soloists and the wonderful Glyndebourne Chorus and Sinfonia.
October 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
It's on Friday 5 December, at 7.30pm. Super team of soloists and the wonderful Glyndebourne Chorus and Sinfonia.
Genuinely baffled by the levels of cognitive dissonance involved.
September 16, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Genuinely baffled by the levels of cognitive dissonance involved.
In defence of the BBC and other sources, I'm not sure that simply reporting his words in quote marks counts as 'repeating the claim', and certainly doesn't express any belief either way about its credibility. Maddening as it is to see his weasel words amplified, it's the job of the BBC to report.
August 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
In defence of the BBC and other sources, I'm not sure that simply reporting his words in quote marks counts as 'repeating the claim', and certainly doesn't express any belief either way about its credibility. Maddening as it is to see his weasel words amplified, it's the job of the BBC to report.