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Joseph Wilson is a father, composer, librettist, singer, songwriter, pianist, art curator, and writer. He’s also incarcerated for murder. He learned music theory through workshops and became an opera composer who earned his stripes by singing for boisterous crowds of his fellow inmates. He tells his story through @marshallproj:

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A Black man wearing a green shirt and pants against a blue background sits with a notebook in his hand. Behind him, from left to right, a man in orange wears blue headphones covers his face, a woman with blonde hair sings, and a person in olive green plays the violin. There is also a gray Walkman with orange headphones on the left and an orange keyboard on the right.
The Marshall Project · How I Became an Opera Composer in a Maximum Security PrisonBy Joseph Wilson
#Culture#Music#Art

Browser Opera: Apples DMA-Änderungen reichen nicht aus

In der EU muss Apple seine Plattformen iOS und iPadOS deutlich stärker freigeben als früher. Dem Browser-Anbieter Opera geht das aber nicht weit genug.

heise.de/news/Browser-Opera-Ap

heise online · Browser Opera: Apples DMA-Änderungen reichen nicht ausBy Ben Schwan

alojapan.com/1248404/in-the-ba In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel Review – Tennessee Williams in Japan #ClassicalMusic #Jazz #news #opera #SplashMagazinesWorldwideIsYourDestinationForInDepthCultureCoverageIncludingTheatre #Tokyo #TokyoNews #東京 #東京都 Susan Priver (foreground) and Remington Hoffman (background) in IN THE BAR OF A TOKYO HOTEL – Photo by Doug Engalla Penned by famed playwright Tennessee Williams in 1968-1969, IN THE BAR OF A TOKYO HOTEL makes its West Coast prem…

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Okay, so: I never watch my own videos back. I might listen to them, but don’t watch them.

Imagine my surprise when I actually did and noticed for the first time that there was a SKULL behind me! Blink and you’ll miss it: At 6 minutes 11 seconds I move a bit to the side and you can see it on the table behind me. Staring at my back!

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It usually sits on my piano. My husband placed it there, deliberately, as he claims now, hoping it would be on camera!

Stop Anna Netrebko's Performance at the Royal Opera House

"Russian Opera Singer Anna Netrebko’s return to the #RoyalOperaHouse is very distressing for Ukrainians and supporters of #democracy. Her alignment with the Putin regime and support for pro-Russian separatists is well-documented."

"Though she now claims to be beyond politics, she endorsed #Putin’s election in 2012 and later expressed that criticising him during the 2022 invasion was unwise."

#culture #opera #UK

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Change.orgSign the PetitionStop Anna Netrebko's Performance at the Royal Opera House

Today:

- I had a wonderful treat. Went to an NZ Opera Co performance of Mansfield Park, a chamber opera based on Jane Austen’s novel. It was brilliant! Wonderful singers and all round great show. I really appreciated that they did an afternoon performance, as fatigue means I struggle with evening events.

- I enjoyed my morning walk

- leftovers made for an easy but delicious dinner

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@jon My story is that in the early 2000's I was very torn between Internet Explorer, #Firefox and #Opera. I was constantly trying out new browsers.

Opera, however, was the browser that offered the most extensive options for customizing the browser to your own needs, at that time without any interface for add-ons. And that with strong competition like Firefox, which offered an interface for add-ons.

When the big change came after version 12 of the Opera browser, I had to take the difficult path, as there was no real alternative. I don't like to think back to that time.

When Vivaldi then developed a new browser under the direction of Jon von Tetzchner with many former Opera Software employees, I immediately realized that something really big was going to happen and that there would finally be a great alternative on the browser market again.

Without further ado, I have been using Vivaldi every day since the first technical preview (TP1) and would never want to use any other browser again. Having followed the development of Vivaldi since the (official) beginning, it's like watching a child grow up.

Vivaldi is my constant companion, both privately and professionally. Especially in the professional environment, Vivaldi offers me great opportunities to optimize my #workflow.