Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸
@dennzz.bsky.social
Opera, Monteverdi & Bach fan with a HIP habit. Lurks around theatres and museums. Can, but doesn’t, read (enough). Also: coffee. ”Und in dem Wie, da liegt der ganze Unterschied”, i.e. #Antifascist
Hohe Messe time tonight at #MuziekgebouwAmsterdam, with Richard Egarr at the helm of #NetherlandsBachSociety and some pretty impressive soloists. Really looking forward to this one. #Bach #LiveMusic
December 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Hohe Messe time tonight at #MuziekgebouwAmsterdam, with Richard Egarr at the helm of #NetherlandsBachSociety and some pretty impressive soloists. Really looking forward to this one. #Bach #LiveMusic
Some Christmas colour in an otherwise grey December Sunday in Amsterdam.
December 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Some Christmas colour in an otherwise grey December Sunday in Amsterdam.
A really wonderful concert, with a fascinating programme, fantastically sung. Thrilling music, often - surprisingly - with a madrigal-like quality. Fantastic stuff. Deserves to be heard much more widely. #UkrainianBaroque #LiveMusic
December 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
A really wonderful concert, with a fascinating programme, fantastically sung. Thrilling music, often - surprisingly - with a madrigal-like quality. Fantastic stuff. Deserves to be heard much more widely. #UkrainianBaroque #LiveMusic
A Christmas concert with Ukrainian baroque music tonight in Amsterdam’s #Muziekgebouw concert hall. (With a Christmassy view across the IJ river on my walk to the concert.) #LiveMusic #Christmas
December 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
A Christmas concert with Ukrainian baroque music tonight in Amsterdam’s #Muziekgebouw concert hall. (With a Christmassy view across the IJ river on my walk to the concert.) #LiveMusic #Christmas
Amsterdam looking cute in the sun today. 🤩😎 #Amsterdam #sun
December 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Amsterdam looking cute in the sun today. 🤩😎 #Amsterdam #sun
December 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
My favourite pieces by Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann (1), Eileen Gray (2&3) and Jean-Michel Frank (4).
December 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
My favourite pieces by Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann (1), Eileen Gray (2&3) and Jean-Michel Frank (4).
December 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The art déco exhibition, celebrating 100 years since the Exposition Internationale that launched the movement, was too busy (crowds of people in the very narrow spaces of the Musée des Arts Déciratifs (MAD…) to be truly enjoyable, but there are some gorgeous pieces on display… #ArtDéco #MADParis
December 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Really enjoyed the newly opened Fondation Cartier opposite the Louvre and Palais Royal yesterday. Pretty amazing spaces, and some really interesting works. #ContemporaryArt #Paris
December 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Really enjoyed the newly opened Fondation Cartier opposite the Louvre and Palais Royal yesterday. Pretty amazing spaces, and some really interesting works. #ContemporaryArt #Paris
So glad to have enjoyed yesterday’s great weather. Today is cloudy, but I only have a few hours before my Eurostar leaves for Amsterdam. #Paris
December 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
So glad to have enjoyed yesterday’s great weather. Today is cloudy, but I only have a few hours before my Eurostar leaves for Amsterdam. #Paris
You’re absolutely right, Mark. Mine isn’t bad at all, with a good view (first row, 2nd balcony). I feared the worst, after experiencing an extremely uncomfortable “ordinary” seat in the 1st balcony a while back, but for €25 this is great.
December 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
You’re absolutely right, Mark. Mine isn’t bad at all, with a good view (first row, 2nd balcony). I feared the worst, after experiencing an extremely uncomfortable “ordinary” seat in the 1st balcony a while back, but for €25 this is great.
I’m off to the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées to hear Seong-Jin Cho in Beethoven, Liszt, Bartók and Chopin. I love the theatre, which is gorgeous, but there were very few tickets left, so I’m sitting on a fold-out chair. We’ll see if I last until the end... #LiveMusic
December 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I’m off to the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées to hear Seong-Jin Cho in Beethoven, Liszt, Bartók and Chopin. I love the theatre, which is gorgeous, but there were very few tickets left, so I’m sitting on a fold-out chair. We’ll see if I last until the end... #LiveMusic
First the Jacques-Louis David exhibition. I’m not a huge fan, but some of the works are very impressive (and I love the first two portraits and Marat), plus the show gives a very clear overview of his career. #art
December 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
First the Jacques-Louis David exhibition. I’m not a huge fan, but some of the works are very impressive (and I love the first two portraits and Marat), plus the show gives a very clear overview of his career. #art
Out and about in Paris today, and… lo and behold, no queue at the Louvre! So… #MuseumTime
December 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Out and about in Paris today, and… lo and behold, no queue at the Louvre! So… #MuseumTime
Pretty underwhelmed with my visit to Notre Dame de Paris this morning. No atmosphere at all, I thought, as if the magic has been (literally?) whitewashed out of the building. #cathedral
December 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Pretty underwhelmed with my visit to Notre Dame de Paris this morning. No atmosphere at all, I thought, as if the magic has been (literally?) whitewashed out of the building. #cathedral
Ah, Paris… Even beautiful in the rain. (And thankfully slightly less busy.) #CityBreak
December 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ah, Paris… Even beautiful in the rain. (And thankfully slightly less busy.) #CityBreak
Now St Nicholas is on his way back to Spain, (and I’m on the Eurostar to Paris), it’s time to start on the Christmas music with a Kuijken double… #festive #XMasMusic
December 7, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Now St Nicholas is on his way back to Spain, (and I’m on the Eurostar to Paris), it’s time to start on the Christmas music with a Kuijken double… #festive #XMasMusic
About yesterday morning (1&2) and last night. #MorningWalk #EveningWalk
December 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
About yesterday morning (1&2) and last night. #MorningWalk #EveningWalk