David Nice
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.
- Pure joy from first note to last.
- The silence, especially from the UK and the EU, is deafening. Deepest shame on you, Starmer, von der Leyen and Kallas. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
- Reposted by David Nice★★★★★ THE EXCURSIONS OF MR BROUCEK @londonsymphony.bsky.social #SimonRattle @barbican.bsky.social - Janáček’s wacky space-and-time-travel opera glows and grips in every bar - @davidnice.bsky.social on a performance with sensuousness, fire and comedy in perfect balance theartsdesk.com/opera/excurs...
- The Pandemonium turning it all upside down yet again. Evil versus good.
- It's partly because the Pandemonium doesn't want gay marriage to be normalised. As one wag on here pointed out, it actually looks like this.
- Read full thread. Approaching Pres. Pizda's 'six impossible things before breakfast': 'if you sought to alienate supporters, destroy your electoral prospects, leave people feeling cynical, disillusioned and ready to embrace any lying tosser who says he'll kick over the system, this is how to do it.'
- Business as usual in Putler's Russia. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
