Ruth Elleson

This is for all arts orgs trying to rearrange their seating plans to be Covid-safe. PEOPLE DO NOT COME IN PAIRS. If the only single seats you offer are tucked into the corners of your auditorium, I’m fucking judging you. Even after making allowances for the position you’re in.

@Strewthieruthie @meenamtj I hear they’ve finally fixed the trap door so the coffin no longer just gets abandoned on the stage! 🤣

@meenamtj Sure was - wow wow wow

Monday treat - Mayerling rehearsal

@dredbeveridge @rbo_org I wish I could sing Siegfried - Act 1 in particular. It always sounds like such enormous fun for those who can!

Siegfried @rbo_org Acts 1 and 2 Oh. My. Goodness. Thanks for reading my in depth review

@DavidCloke @RomaPete I’m standing for Siegfried the day after tomorrow. I can guarantee it’ll be more comfortable than the hard wooden step I spent at the tech desk for the Regents Opera Ring.

@RomaPete Well done for managing the stand for so long. I think I’d struggle even with La Bohème or Tosca!

5+ hours in standing room. Only sitzbreak was a couple of minutes in the bathroom. 😩 Old man still got it! Fun night, perhaps my favorite performance of the 3, much discussion with friends at intermission about how the sound varies around the hall. The set is very influential.

@ViolaAppleton6 @miffythegamer I honestly don’t have a clear memory of the book. Just that I really enjoyed it at the time (it lived at my grandmother’s house so I always read it when we visited).

@RuthElleson @miffythegamer I was wondering this but I absolutely want to go and see it because it was the first book I remember my mum reading to us. Oh a Christmas book too but doesn't count 😂

Who is the reheated Harry Potter telly remake for? It seems to be aimed at original Potter fans. Wouldn’t this be like a series targeted at 45 year olds who, as kids, read books by Enid Blyton?

@miffythegamer Update: I’m now so curious that I’ve ordered a bunch of vintage stuff from World of Books, including The Adventures of (definitely no way anyone could take this as a penis euphemism) Mr Pink-Whistle.

@RuthElleson 😆😆😆😆😆

@NoisyMV Which is kind of fair to be honest

@RuthElleson Although we have been here 14 yrs and he has been talking about selling up for a while

Doing the pre-move (next Saturday) declutter - countless cubic metres of stuff to throw out and donate. Not even sure where we put it all in the first place. And I'm still going to need 50-60 packing crates to do the move. 😳 Stressful week ahead.

@NoisyMV 🙄😕

@RuthElleson Yep

@NoisyMV Are you one of the hordes of renters who’ve been forced into a move by an eviction notice served in anticipation of the new tenancy laws?

@RuthElleson I’m only moving about 150mtrs! But like I said elsewhere the only difference is the time it takes the truck to get to the new place. The hell remans😖

@jsdhenderson @LucasRosemary @operamagazine Which I have in my diary as happening on 14th April. At least that’s when the PRESS release is happening.

@RuthElleson @LucasRosemary @operamagazine Looking forward to the Covent Garden peas release

Antonio Pappano will conduct my favourite Verdi Opera - Falstaff - with the LSO in June ‘28. Source: #wehearthat from @operamagazine

@LucasRosemary @jsdhenderson @operamagazine PRESS coverage surrounding it. Not peas.

@LucasRosemary @jsdhenderson @operamagazine Last year’s WNO launch (and the peas coverage surrounding it) included a few comments on the nature of the future season and what kind of changes would be likely. But I’d have thought they’d know what they’re doing by now. I see we are getting a Wigmore Hall announcement on Wed.

@LucasRosemary @jsdhenderson @operamagazine Last year most of the major announcements were in early April, but it’s practically unheard-of for WNO not to have announced by now. For the last few years they’ve been first!

@RuthElleson @jsdhenderson @operamagazine And just about every other British opera & orchestra too. Everyone seems late off the mark.

@jsdhenderson @operamagazine Do you know when they’re announcing?

@RuthElleson @operamagazine 🤐

seeing a lot of "imagine that was your daughter/sister" etc and for once it would be nice for women to simply be treated as humans because we are human and not because you have one like it at home that you don't hate

@MarkValencia @LindaFarrell11 (Which is basically exactly what it says in that blurb you posted.) The only place I ever bother with a table reservation fee is Grange Festival where they really do charge you to sit down anywhere (but somehow their tickets are so much cheaper than Garsington etc, I don’t mind).

@MarkValencia @LindaFarrell11 There are also always unreserved tables in the bottom few tents which are first come, first served and £0. If the weather is fine there is never a shortage.

I’m going to Garsington for the first time this year🤷, any recommendations for the best place to book a picnic table (will bring my own)?

@eggsbened @hugh_canning @sorcererpds That “alleged” quote is a direct excerpt from the article you linked to!

@sorcererpds Ugh. He has, as I’m sure you know, form in rush area. He is alleged elsewhere to have said other “She is 34 and there’s a sell-by date to consider. Workouts and makeovers can offer an extension but not past 40." And this. thecritic.co.uk/issues/novembe…

BBC Radio 3 has ended its relationship with Norman Lebrecht following an email to Yuja Wang the pianist described on Instagram as "derogatory misogynistic bullying." Dearie me.