Paul Carey Jones
@paulcareyjones
Welsh-Irish opera singer 🏴 🇮🇪 🎶 Writer 📖 Doctoral Researcher in Computer Science at the University of Westminster, London 🎤 💻 #Penarth 🏖️ #Cymraeg 🐦🔥 www.paulcareyjones.net keynoteartistmanagement.com/artists/paul-carey-jones/
The fun thing about this is that the 5 drivers I missed were all from the last 20 years. I memorised all the F1 world champions from the beginning when I was 12. (Lost interest a bit a few years after that, once I worked out how to talk to girls.)
Stopped to buy a drink at a university open day with E(19) today, who immediately dubbed this “Woke-a Cola”.
Pleased to see someone had bought Geraint an ice cream at ROH yesterday. 🏴🎶🍦
Because there’s nothing more #Cardiff than half-n-half 🇮🇪🏴🏉
I’m paraphrasing the direction from Calixto, but essentially the foundation is, what does the world look like if God has gone mad? I’ve been finding the conclusions horrifically topical.
“Le Voyageur” chevauche une fois de plus ce soir. #Paris #Wagner #Siegfried #Wanderer #RingCycle
More fun on stage in #Paris last night as “Le Voyageur” at the pré-générale of #Siegfried #Wagner #Wanderer #Wotan #RingCycle
Le dieu fou d'aujourd'hui. Last sessions of stage rehearsals for me here in Paris. An absolute joy to have been embraced into this incredible team and sing into in this crystal-clean, egalitarian auditorium. 🇫🇷🎶❤️
Global campaign to install roof-to-basement escalators in all opera houses. #Paris 🇫🇷 🎶 ❤️
Every time I hear Brünnhilde sing this note, I instinctively go to put my coat back on for the curtain call. Like some sort of Pavlov’s god.
I love how scores are full of little memories. “TP” = Pappano, telling me off for getting ahead of his beat.
Carriage steward on the train this morning spots my score, is a huge Wagner fan. He just gave me an extra pain au raisin. I feel like a proper rock star.
A great start for #ThingsLeftUnsung - thanks to all the early purchasers out there. Profits from the hardback edition go to City Hospice, Cardiff, who helped look after my Dad during his illness. Copies available worldwide here: amzn.eu/d/do69BuX
New book #ThingsLeftUnsung on sale now worldwide in hardback edition. Stocking-filler paperback edition out on 8th December, with the Kindle edition available in time for Christmas reading. Profits from the hardback edition will go to City Hospice, Cardiff. amzn.eu/d/8x56n5Y
In all seriousness, it’s not so much the November thing, but Christmas’s surrendering of January, and the obliteration of the anticipatory joy of Advent. “That weird bit between Christmas and New Year”? THAT’S CHRISTMAS. “Why is it over so soon?” IT’S NOT. #prematureenyulication
At music college, I would take these to acting class every week and see if I could recruit a Rosencrantz. (Or a Guildenstern. I didn’t discriminate at all.) In the end I had to be banned from bringing them to let us do some opera. Either Stoppard was a genius or there’s no such thing. RIP 💔
Anyway, just bought a Christmas present for my cat. Happy now, capitalism?