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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 · 27m

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 5h

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

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 3d

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".

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 5d

😢 Triste ........

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 5d

Bon samedi, Frédéric! 😘

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 5d

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

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 5d

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

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 5d

'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.

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 5d

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"

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 11d

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 12d

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 ........

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 12d

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.

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 13d

Merveilleux, Antonio. 🖤

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 14d

Dmitri Shostakovich was born on this day in 1906, So here's the 1966 Soviet film of Katerina Izmailova (his 1962 revision of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) directed by Mikhail Shapiro, with a towering performance by Galina Vishnevskaya as Katerina.
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Katerina Izmailova Vishnevskaya Shostakovich 1966

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 16d

Gluck's Armide was first performed in Paris on this day in 1777. The great Frida Leider sings Ah! Si la liberté me doit etre ravie in 1929, with John Barbirolli conducting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBNE...

"Ah ! Si la liberté". "Armide". Gluck. Frida Leider.

YouTube video by Graham Rankin

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 16d

Vincenzo Bellini died in Paris on this day in 1835. So here's a live performance of Beatrice di Tenda, his most underrated opera, from New York in 1961, conducted by Nicola Rescigno, with Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Richard Cassilly and Enzo Sordello.
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Bellini - Beatrice di Tenda - Sutherland, Horne, Cassily, Sordello / Rescigno - N Y, 21 Febr.1961

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 19d

There are times when I think there is nothing I hate more in the world than getting duvet covers on duvets ........ 😬

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 22d

And on my way to the launch event now!

John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 22d

Out Today! Evoking the spirit of the great 19th-century concerti, but with some added Latin American spice.

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 19d

Have just realised Susanna York was Mistress Ford, of course, not Mistress Page. Mea culpa. It was nearly midnight, lol ......

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 19d

Oh! I'll check, and see what I can do. Remember a fabulous production of it at the Barbican, many, many years ago with Leslie Phillips (who once upon a time used to play the roué in Carry On films) as Falstaff and Susanna York as Mistress Page. A delight and an absolute riot from start to finish!!

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 19d

Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov, who last week called for an end to the war during a London concert, was arrested at a demonstration on the Gaza border against the war.

“Stop the genocide. It’s ruining everything. Stop it now.”