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The Operatic Production Line
I am a twin. A few days ago, the good twin (Mimi) posted this: It’s a very sensible thread, and I’d encourage you to read it....
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leodoulton
Jun 29, 20224 min read
The Boozeless Bar Bonanza
The other day I put up a Twitter poll, hoping to get a sense from a few friends about a question I’ve been pondering for a while: Over...
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leodoulton
Jun 26, 202220 min read
Reality and Justice: On naturalism, verismo, and Puccini.
Prologue I am at times, an academic, and one of my specialisms is in the aesthetic philosophy of opera (in short, the ways people justify...
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leodoulton
May 15, 20225 min read
Biting The Hand That Feeds: A Few Oddities In The New Grants For The Arts
Like most England-based artists, I’ve made a number of applications to Arts Council England (ACE) for money. They’ve just changed the...
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leodoulton
Apr 14, 20225 min read
We Need To Talk About Geoffrey
About a fortnight ago, two very clever people posted Tweets bemoaning the lack of faith of sector leaders in modern (or, at least, 1945)...
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leodoulton
Jan 17, 20225 min read
The Radical Audition: A Quest
What’s the best way to do auditions? Auditions suck. There’s no feeling like that of sending an email to say no to someone talented who’s...
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leodoulton
Aug 28, 20213 min read
The Lich Pagliacci
Once upon a time - all good stories begin with once upon a time - there was a great performer by the name of Pagliacci. Pagliacci had the...
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leodoulton
Mar 27, 20214 min read
What happens if you analyse opera like a TTRPG? - Part 2, opera as social game
This will make a lot more sense if you've read the first part here. At first, I thought I’d do this via the Marxian models I tend to use....
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leodoulton
Feb 14, 20218 min read
The Unimaginable Liberation Of The Singer - The Nice and the Radical
At a the latest Devoted and Disgruntled conference, I called a session asking for ideas for a utopian opera festival. One thing that...
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leodoulton
Jul 21, 20204 min read
Virtual Opera
Lockdown has caused a rash of online opera, so I thought I'd write a bit about my experiences with opera for film - whether researching...
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leodoulton
Mar 7, 20204 min read
So, I'm not an Offies finalist.
I said I’d do a blog about the Offie finalists for 2019, so I will. I had the concept for, translated, and directed one of the nominees...
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leodoulton
Apr 23, 20193 min read
Media Time
Sometimes I write blogs to clarify my thoughts about matters of theatrical theory and practice. Today I'm doing it because tomorrow is my...
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