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Formal, Casual, Fancy: Some Thoughts On Operatic Audience Clothing
Even in my lifetime, there’s been a shift in what people wear to the opera. Specifically, from ‘formal’ clothing to a greater acceptance...
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leodoulton
- May 14
- 2 min
Rehearsal Friends
An observation I suspect I’ve made before, but might as well repeat. There’s this weird thing in opera, theatre, and similar where we...
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leodoulton
- Apr 25
- 2 min
How To Get Money From Rich Old Men: An Anti-Manifesto
I am an opera maker, and realise the terrible truth: opera needs money, desperately, all the time. Let us assume that the chance the next...
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leodoulton
- Dec 23, 2022
- 3 min
Narratives About Narrative: A Challenge For Arts Coverage
Amid the inescapable World Cup coverage recently, I was often reminded of this XKCD comic: While an over-simplification, it does...
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leodoulton
- Dec 20, 2022
- 4 min
Acting Scandalous
A quiet note to theatrical creators, after a few shows I’ve seen. A thought that occurs to me while my mouth is filled… With a crunchie...
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leodoulton
- Dec 16, 2022
- 5 min
An Apology To The Historical Performance People, After Their Acquisition Of ABBA
Dear Historical Performance People, Please accept my apology in the face of your recent victory, after which it seems unlikely that the...
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leodoulton
- Dec 13, 2022
- 2 min
Commercially Exploiting Audience Data
“The Audience Agency has just been sacked by ACE, for undisclosed reasons, and replaced with the far from non-profit PWC, which will be...
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leodoulton
- Dec 3, 2022
- 15 min
Problematic's Problems
Hello. I’m an arts worker, and today I’m going to complain about people who are broadly speaking on my side. Because that’s what we do....
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leodoulton
- Dec 2, 2022
- 4 min
Dead Operas
Keep reading. There’s a Frankenstein reference before the end. History is littered with dead operas. Der Stein der Weisen (to which...
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leodoulton
- Nov 25, 2022
- 6 min
Throwing Down The Long Black Glove: Coming To Bargain With A Lack Of Funding
I’ve been invited to discuss this a number of times by opera peers, and tried to hold my tongue so I don’t feel like I’m using a hot take...
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leodoulton
- Nov 8, 2022
- 15 min
Some initial thoughts on the NPO Announcement
To be absolutely clear: I am writing this in my freelance capacity. I am not representing any of the NPOs that I have and continue to...
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leodoulton
- Oct 25, 2022
- 9 min
Opera Is Aristocratic (And Not Just In The Obvious Ways)
The first part of the title is a claim I have made on this blog before. A lot. It’s a central part of my default analysis of wider...
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leodoulton
- Oct 18, 2022
- 2 min
Coming To Come Bargain, Strand 1: Why I (Un-)love Opera
This blog is part of a series on how I came to write Come Bargain With Uncanny Things (tickets available now!). If you want to read the...
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leodoulton
- Oct 12, 2022
- 6 min
A Case Against (Some) Subsidy OR Why I'm Trying To Make A Commercially Populist Opera
Introduction You may have seen the news of the failure of the ‘Festival of Brexit’, at over £500 subsidy per head for a deeply unpopular...
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leodoulton
- Aug 21, 2022
- 4 min
Apocalypse Proofed Shows
A plausible scenario for the near future The climate crisis has continued on its current course, with rising sea levels and regular...
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leodoulton
- Jul 21, 2022
- 5 min
What Really Worked In The JMK
I have been through a lot of application processes. Lots and lots. Anything from Arts Council England to small local funds to whatever...
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leodoulton
- Jul 14, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 20 min
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, 2022
- 5 min
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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