Liza

@lizamezzo

Mezzo-about-town. Singer, actor, Shakespearean text coach, will translate your opera libretti and song texts. She/they.

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Liza@lizamezzo· 22d

#MothSky who is this creature who got into the bathroom last night? Maybe about an inch wide? London, UK. (I left the window open so it could get out, and I think it did)

Moth with grey-brown forewings with brown bars and beautiful silver hindwings

Liza@lizamezzo· Jul 12

This was how I found Mystery when she went missing a few years ago. I'd been calling her all day, but only at about 9pm did I hear the scratchy little meows coming back out of the darkness. She'd jumped to the roof of the shop below & got lost in the ductwork. Muddy but uninjured. Little minx.

Small black and white cat rolling on the floor. She has green eyes, white feet and a white moustache

Liza@lizamezzo· Jul 9

Doing my duty as an opera translator and reposting with alt text.

Anche alle elezioni del 4 luglio ce ne saranno diversi [candidati]: il più famoso e Count Binface, cioè Conte Faccia-da-Bidone, che appartiene pienamente alla categoria della satira politica ed è imprsonato da un comico.

English version: In the elections of 4 July there will be various candidates: the most famous is Count Binface, that is Count Face-of-Bin, who belongs fully to the category of political satire and is the persona of a comedian.

Liza@lizamezzo· Jul 5

In York for the Mysteries! Medieval fun times. All very holy

Liza@lizamezzo· Jun 29

Whoever’s doing the National Theatre outdoor screen doesn’t know what fullscreen is???

An outdoor screen with BBC iPlayer running on it. Browser tabs and dock also visible. The actual screen showing tennis from Wimbledon is… very small

Liza@lizamezzo· Jun 29

Noctilucence at the northern horizon.

Noctilucent clouds - cirrus clouds illuminated by the sun while it’s below the horizon at the opposite compass point.

Liza@lizamezzo· Jun 23

Reposted with alt text

Expansion was not itself a mistake. One of the genuine achievements of the late 2oth century was that subjects such as English, history and drama ceased to belong almost exclusively to a small social elite.
Some of the most intellectually ambitious teaching in British universities happened not in ancient institutions but in post-1992 universities. That is one of the reasons the present contraction feels so bleak. The danger isn't just the loss of particular departments. It is the quiet restratification of intellectual life.

Liza@lizamezzo· Jun 21

lol, lmao

A library poster with Lucy Lawless in her costume as Xena, Warrior Princess reading a scroll. Text says: Vanquish Ignorance, Read. Current bid is 115 US dollars

Library poster of Renée O’Connor as Gabrielle from Xena: Warrior Princess telling a story. Current bid for this poster is 110 US dollars

Library poster with right-wing actor Kevin Sorbo as Hercules. Current bid for this item is one US dollar

Liza@lizamezzo· Jun 18

If ever anything needed googly eyes

A giant sculpture called Ha Makom by Anish Kapoor. It’s red and sort of fuzzy

Liza@lizamezzo· Jun 8

I heard a crow absolutely losing his shit at dusk today, and rounded the corner to see it taunting a cat. Crow sitting on the fence, cat at the base lashing its tail. The cat would pounce at the crow and it would flap a few feet away, land back on the fence and keep cawing. This is my only photo:

A crow sitting on a metal fence above a brick wall. On the brick wall at right is a striped tabby cat. The crow kept landing on the fence and cawing at the cat

Liza@lizamezzo· Jun 8

London skyline; Venus and Jupiter in conjunction.

Night view of London skyline with lit up buildings and the curve of the London Eye glowing blue. At right, two planets are visible: bright Venus slightly above, with Jupiter appearing dimmer just below to the left. Jupiter appears smaller because it is more distant, but really it is enormously larger than Venus and Earth. Its mass keeps asteroids away from us though so it’s all good.

Liza@lizamezzo· Jun 5

The Sirrah Sisters’ Much Ado was great fun! Excellent directing by Nat Kennedy. Also I took this perfect photo of actor Pamela Flanagan (Don Pedro) reflected in an ancient mirror

A gilded mirror reflects an actor with white hair in a bun. She has a moustache and goatee painted on her face. The mirror makes her look like a portrait of early 20th century genderqueerness (Ithink)

Liza@lizamezzo· Jun 5

Seated in a super secret outdoor theatre for a super secret Much Ado

A bohemian-looking outdoor stage with a red backdrop with various symbols of love and death. There is also a chaise longue and a classical statue of a nymph wearing a felt hat.

Liza@lizamezzo· Jun 4

Duelling pistols at Finsbury Park

A piece of tile art above a wooden bench at Finsbury Park tube station. Duellists used to meet in the park, far enough outside the city to avoid being noticed by law enforcement.

Liza@lizamezzo· May 29

The neighbourhood Philadelphus is in bloom and the scent is amazing. If you pass one of these, do stop and sniff. They smell like orange blossom!

A large bush with green leaves and white blossoms

Liza@lizamezzo· May 26

Been playing Deutsche Bahn roulette all day— had to schlep my enormous bag up & down an infinite number of stairs at Köln Messe-Deutz — but I made the essential connection! The One Train that will get me to Brussels for the last Eurostar of the day. Which means I’m coming home. See you soon, cats

Two cats lying on a wood floor in the sun

Liza@lizamezzo· May 18

1536 — harrowing but great. Been a while since I was at the New Ambassadors. A small house, but the sightlines are lovely.

A little West End theatre. Looks late nineteenth century
-ish. Stage set with dead grass and teasels and a dead tree. Above, a proscenium with gilding and a crystal chandelier

Liza@lizamezzo· May 13

Wtf London sky gods

Liza@lizamezzo· May 12

Shadow bridge; brushstroke sky

Southwark Bridge at sunset, looking west from the south bank. Trident streetlamps silhouetted against a blue sky streaked with cirrus clouds dyed orange in the last sunlight. Right of centre, the dome of St Paul’s on the opposite bank.

Liza@lizamezzo· May 11

At the opera house for the dress of Samson et Dalila I dislike this production but the music will be beautiful Meanwhile, have some cherubs who just got back from the club

Operatic wall sconce with two nude golden-winged cherubs

Liza@lizamezzo· May 10

Might be off somewhere fun

A mysterious corseted torso in a smeary mirror

Liza@lizamezzo· May 9

Golden hour flowers

Front of a brown brick house with window boxes and hanging baskets full of colourful flowers in golden afternoon sunlight. A green-leaved climbing rose arches over the front door, which is painted black with a brass knocker.

Liza@lizamezzo· May 9

She’s been treated and we’re waiting for the night bus home. Caught sight of Reynard across the street

Blurry picture of red fox on a London street

Liza@lizamezzo· May 9

At the night vet with Mystery. I think she’ll be OK; she’s shown these symptoms before and recovered with fluids and simple meds. But she’s 16 so it’s always a bit nervous-making when she is ill. Here’s a picture from earlier this spring of her doing her favourite thing: melting in the sun

Small black cat with white feet, chest and moustache relaxing in the sun

Liza@lizamezzo· Apr 25

Street fox, just trotting along

London sidewalk with a red fox trotting towards the camera

Liza@lizamezzo· Apr 25

Today’s #catconfiguration: quotation marks

Two black and white cats curled up together on a sofa. With their heads pointing in the same direction, they look like quotation marks

Liza@lizamezzo· Apr 25

Off topic, but I also have that duvet cover

Little black cat on a William Morris willow pattern duvet cover

Liza@lizamezzo· Apr 20

Made my first codpiece!

A Tudor-esque codpiece made of red wool, reposing on a sofa

Liza@lizamezzo· Apr 19

Buff jerkin!!

Liza@lizamezzo· Apr 15

I'd love to be wrong about this. But it looks like they're trying the same fundraising wheeze now that they did in 2009. It looks cool, sure. But these "investors" will never see anything happen for their money.