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Mark Pullinger
@larkingrumple.bsky.social
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Music critic, editor, programme note writer. Happy to be ambushed by cake. Best when caffeinated. https://canzonetta.substack.com/
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 17d
“Flagging up” my @thetimes.com review of The Sicilian Vespers at the Royal Opera... 🇫🇷🔥
www.thetimes.com/culture/clas...
The Sicilian Vespers review — like a Degas painting on steroids
Stefan Herheim’s five-star Verdi staging, which transplants the action to the home of the Paris Opera and Ballet, returns to Covent Garden better than ever
www.thetimes.com
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 9h
At the Coli for the return of Calixto Bieito’s Carmen
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 14h
Taylor Swift, eat your heart out: my @thetimes.com review of Handel's Giustino, back at Covent Garden for the first time since 1737 @lanuovamusica.bsky.social

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Giustino review — Taylor Swift, eat your heart out
Mireille Asselin glitters as an empress and a showgirl in Handel’s opera about a sea monster, vividly realised at the Linbury Theatre
www.thetimes.com
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 2d
My review of an intense Rape of Lucretia for English Touring Opera @etopera.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/culture/clas...
The Rape of Lucretia review — thrilling drama in a harrowing tale
Robin Norton-Hale’s intense production for English Touring Opera is a fine ambassador for Benjamin Britten’s ‘problem child’
www.thetimes.com
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 4d
A Wilde afternoon ahead…
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 6d
You're not donning your oatmeal slippers in Hackney, then?
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Mark Valencia 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @markvalencia.bsky.social · 8d
Have you seen John Bridcut's bio-doc on Delius? It's a probing, revelatory 2012 film on BBC4. I've been blown away by it. 'Delius: Composer, Lover, Enigma'. Do search it out.
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 6d
I enjoyed this very much. Shall fish out my Beecham discs. And how wonderful to see Andrew Davis waxing lyrical.
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UK Critics' Circle Music @ccmusicuk.bsky.social · 6d
Here's Claudia Pritchard's write up of the Critics' Circle Music Awards 2025:
criticscircle.org.uk/music-awards...
Music Awards 2025, celebrating a year of outstanding achievement | The Critics' Circle
More than 80 leading figures from across Britain’s musical landscape came together at the sparkling Critics’ Circle Music Awards, held at the London Coliseum, a ceremony that honoured musicians who ma...
criticscircle.org.uk
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 7d
Even at the age of five, I fell for Lesley Judd...
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 8d
Another fab Vêpres! Great to see it up close and personal!
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 10d
Pretty much perfect Tosca casting (although Sonya Yoncheva in February was more vividly characterised and diva-ish). Glad the stage machinery was working last night – Thursday's Act 2 had to play in front of the curtain, apparently.
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 11d
Tosca livestream this evening!
play.wiener-staatsoper.at/event/899891...
Wiener Staatsoper
play.wiener-staatsoper.at
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 12d
Rossinian farce at its best: I really enjoyed L’occasione fa il ladro at the Kammeroper last night
www.gramophone.co.uk/opera-now/re...
Rossini: L’occasione fa il ladro at the Kammeroper | Live Review
This rollicking production reveals Rossini’s one-act opera as a little gem
www.gramophone.co.uk
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 12d
Morning visit to the House of Strauss:
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 13d
“I don’t write for Pravda, but for myself.”
Dmitri Shostakovich was born OTD in 1906. Enjoy my top ten playlist, plus a clip of the composer playing the piano:
bachtrack.com/playlist-top...
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 15d
Boris Godunov at Dutch National Opera, Louise at Festival d'Aix and Maria Stuarda at the Salzburg Festival and Teatro Real all reviewed in my Gramophone column: www.gramophone.co.uk/features/art...
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 16d
Lotte de Beer’s Zauberflöte entrances a young Volksoper audience, My review for Opera Now:
www.gramophone.co.uk/opera-now/re...
Mozart: Magic Flute at the Volksoper | Live Review
The young audience here was completely transfixed
www.gramophone.co.uk
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 17d
My fourth Tosca production within a fortnight... and it's the best of the lot:
bachtrack.com/review-tosca...
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 17d
“Flagging up” my @thetimes.com review of The Sicilian Vespers at the Royal Opera... 🇫🇷🔥
www.thetimes.com/culture/clas...
The Sicilian Vespers review — like a Degas painting on steroids
Stefan Herheim’s five-star Verdi staging, which transplants the action to the home of the Paris Opera and Ballet, returns to Covent Garden better than ever
www.thetimes.com
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 17d
My fourth Tosca production within a fortnight... and it's the best of the lot:
bachtrack.com/review-tosca...
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 18d
Another evening, another Tosca…
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 19d
Donning my skull mask this evening and heading for Vespers: a second revival for Stefan Herheim's staging of Verdi's Sicilian Vespers
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 21d
One for Rossini fans today...
Par🇮🇹le n°1352 4/6
pietroppeter.github.io/wordle-it/
Par🇮🇹le - Un gioco di parole al giorno (Wordle in italiano)
Indovina la parola nascosta in 6 tentativi. Un nuovo puzzle ogni giorno.
pietroppeter.github.io
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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 21d
Wordle 1,551 2/6 😁

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Mark Pullinger @larkingrumple.bsky.social · 23d
A few thoughts on Alexei Ratmansky’s Pictures at an Exhibition which I caught at the weekend…
canzonetta.substack.com/p/alexei-rat...
Alexei Ratmansky’s Pictures at an Exhibition
An appreciation
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