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David Nice

@davidnice.bsky.social

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Writer, lecturer, broadcaster, happily bestriding London and Dublin. Classical music/Opera Editor of The Arts Desk, author of seven books including Prokofiev: From Russia to the West (Yale). Running two Zoom courses, one on opera, the other on concert rep.

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@theartsdesk.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 8:39 AMReposted by @davidnice.bsky.social

★★★★ PARSIFAL #RoyalOpera - Unholy rituals, as usual, but a hero's life compels: #StanislasdeBarbeyrac's protagonist matches #JakubHrůša's conducting for intensity, while #EvgenyTitov's production intrigues @davidnice.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/parsifal-roy...

@antireform.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:41 AMReposted by @davidnice.bsky.social

If Farage ever got power - prime recruits for ICE style vigilantes (they wouldn't need to be fit if given guns) meme via The Progressive Alliance - Uniting Against The Tories & Reform

@davidnice.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 8:04 AM

Hilarious.

@davidnice.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 8:00 AM

Sez someone on Xitter. Jeez.

@davidnice.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:58 AM

A rapist and a paedophile.

@davidnice.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:58 AM

PS - Jon Ossoff for next President (if not AOC).

@davidnice.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:55 AM

He's superb, but I always despair of the verb 'destroys' because it's never, alas, anything of the sort. These monsters are teflon plated.

@davidnice.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:54 AM

I can't watch Owen Jones. Give me the gist, please.

@davidnice.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:51 AM

He was, but for me the production manipulated him too much into a position of horridness. There was more harmony between Stanislas de Barbeyrac's Parsifal and the story told about his journey. And the conducting? I think you may have got a better sing from ABK than from an ailing Brindley Sherratt.

@davidnice.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:47 AM

Whom do you mean by 'Liberals'?

@davidnice.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:47 AM

Or not do. But who in the USA has been able to organise a truly mass action? Not the above.

@davidnice.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:42 AM

And anyone who rants about 'poor me me me charlatan Polanski' is not someone worth carrying on a conversation with. Bye now.

@davidnice.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:40 AM

Here we go again. 'Terrorism' is terrorising people. Palestine Action never did that. And in this case the law is an ass.

@davidnice.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:36 AM

There is a bleak chapter in, if I remember right, George Monbiot's Feral, about the baldness of swathes of Wales ravaged by sheep farming.

@davidnice.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 9:54 PM

And @andyburnham.bsky.social

@davidnice.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 9:06 PM

If they wanted generic copy, they shouldn't have asked an opinionated Wagnerian who should pass as an expert.

@davidnice.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 9:04 PM

Not to mention innocents on boats.

@davidnice.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:58 PM

So refreshing to read this on a day of media frenzy.

@davidnice.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:54 PM

May it spontaneously combust.

@davidnice.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:51 PM

Who some of you are. The other route has been long in the making.

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