Mark Ronan
@mark1ronan
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mathematics professor; author of Symmetry and The Monster; opera reviews; ancient history; cold water swimmer
London
Joined June 2011
RT @Miss_Snuffy: The Education government team saying the Ed Sec doesn’t need lectures from successful school leaders because the Ed Sec we…
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As Dionysis/ Minotaur @TommyFranzen had superb presence — a wonderful performance.
Looking forwards to be performing at @rbo_org this February alongside Royal Ballet’s Kristen McNally, Isabel Lubach and Jonathan Goddard
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Under Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša, music director designate of the Royal Opera, this was a terrific performance of Janáček’s opera Jenufa. He rathceted up the emotional tension leaving the audience pole-axed — see my review
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RT @_paullay: Experience tells me that people who have mastered ancient languages, extra-European ones - and German - have been schooled in…
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RT @holland_tom: I see the Government think the study of Latin should be exclusive to private schools.
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In 2025 @lfotweet will celebrate Anthony Negus’s 25th Anniversary as Music Director by launching the Wagner Club with him as president. Well done to Longborough Festival Opera as a mini-Bayreuth in the Cotswolds.
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RT @dolphinsands: A Ukrainian friend couldn't come to visit today. When we rang to see if she was all right, she said her brother, a sniper…
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Wonderful singing from Juan Diego Flórez, Alex Esposito, Olga Pudova, Ermonela Jaho, Marina Costa-Jackson, Julie Boulianne, conducted by Antonello Manacorda, directed by Damiano Michieletto. @ErmonelaJaho @juli_bou
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@E_N_O’s new prod of Britten’s Turn of the Screw is long on stage design, but short on the simplicity that allows the ambivalence and mystery to take hold — my review in The Article
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Rigoletto at Cardiff by the WNO defies the bean counters — see my review in The Article
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Buxton International Festival is one of five festivals to be nominated for ‘Best Opera Festival’ in the 2024 International Opera Awards. Well done Buxton
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BBC Prom 5: Under the baton of Ryan Bancroft he Zemlinsky beat the disappointing perf of the Schoenberg
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And the cast of I pagliaccci produced an emotional roller-coaster: @DavidButtPhilip @AliLanger @Harry_Thatcher Robert Hayward (a hugely moving prologue), and Zwakele Tshabalala. Congratulations to them all
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