Charlotte Valori

You know you’ve been watching #bsotristan possibly too much when Twitter starts showing you adverts for Wound Hygiene.. Twitter, I hate to break it to you, but no amount of Biofilm is going to save Tristan from his Wound. Spoiler alert: Only Isolde (and Death) can help him now.x

Just booked my tickets to #OpenArias in June featuring @jen_the_sop @marthajmezzo @AliOllerenshaw and Richard Dowling. Can’t wait! #openairopera #operainsuffolk #abbeyhalleye #lifeafterlockdown #operaconcert

Amazing to be able to watch @GarsingtonOpera #TheTurnoftheScrew tonight from my sofa on @BBCiPlayer #cultureinquarantine. @ed_lyon incredible as Quint: lyrical malevolence. So scary, my dog had to hide under the blanket throughout! #summerchills #bravitutti #britten

Such a tearjerkingly tender #Seraglio from @ETOpera tonight at @snapemaltings conducted by @JKAConductor. Beautiful singing all round, esp @JGyeantey! Came home to open my new copy of #theboythemolethefoxandthehorse: this page seemed so apt. #DieEntfuhrungaufdesSerail #Mozart

My father's evening music advice...

Another wonderful substitute boyfriend: rippling muscles, beautiful manners, enjoys long adventures in the countryside, constantly understanding, distractingly beautiful, noble nature, friendly and tactile. Again, one must self-cater on the Thermidor front though.

Unerringly! I don't have Vicky's app, but here is my substitute boyfriend: he is definitely perfect in my eyes! Although I do have to buy my own lobster Thermidor... #georgetteheyer #comfortreading #historicalromance #singlelife

I'm so confused by this advert. How can Georges Bizet (a) be writing something "new"; (b) be writing a "musical"; (c) be "inspired" by Oscar Hammerstein II? Many things on this poster seem very much the #wrongwayround, even misleading! #wtf @Sadlers_Wells #carmenlacubana

@Ryanair Here's the enormous queue of unhappy #angrypassengers @STN_Airport after you cancelled 2 flights at short notice today. I got my "sorry we've cancelled" text AFTER I'd walked into the airport: #toolate to change my Pisa flight online. #badlymanaged #RyanairStrike

Such a wonderful weekend @BuxtonFestival with my @into_opera #OperaUnwrapped prizewinner Pam, fellow member of @NorwichOpera. Here we are together in front of Buxton's jewel-box opera house! #opera #operatravels #englishsummeropera #Verdi #Alzira

Stunning portrait of Kathleen Ferrier by Cecil Beaton, in "Kathleen Ferrier - A Memoir", 1954. All proceeds from the book went to the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship; there were 4 print runs in 1954 alone. #operahistory #operasinger

Benjamin Britten and Kathleen Ferrier were equally astonished by her first top A on stage while creating Lucretia @glyndebourne 1946 #TheRapeofLucretia... From Britten's own personal essay in "Kathleen Ferrier, A Memoir", 1954. #Dutchgin #operahistory

Is this the most gentlemanly defence of Susanna ever, perhaps? From "Mozart on the Stage", Christopher Benn, published posthumously 1946. Benn died in 1941, aged 29 (shot down over Libya). #Mozart #MarriageofFigaro #operahistory