I forgot to post about this yesterday, though not surprising due to how extremely busy work has been with the Play Store release of Nova 8.
I applied for the Vivaldi Sopranos program and it looks like I've been accepted. I'll have some accounts setup on Monday for me so I'll be able to dive in head first and see what all is going on.
That means I'm now an Ambassador and a Soprano for @Vivaldi which is pretty exciting!
Some #earlymodern remedies.
A set of #songs and #choruses from the Masque of #Mountebanks, where quack doctors vie with each other to sell cures every conceivable ailment...
This #Jacobean#masque was performed twice in London in 1618. First at #GraysInn, and then at the Banqueting House in Whitehall for King James I.
> #Scottish#Opera is seeking talented singers (#Soprano, #Mezzo-soprano, #Tenor and #Baritone/ #Bass) to join the Company’s Emerging Artist Programme for the 2024/25 Season. Candidates should be of postgraduate standard or equivalent and be about to embark on their professional career.
I’ve been fortunate to receive an offer to submit my first audition during this #SAGAFTRAstrike for a role in a project that has signed #sagaftra’s #InterimAgreement (it’s a #contract, not a waiver!). It’s exciting to know high-quality #film and #TV work are continuing. 🪧
Two anonymous 17th Century ballads describing the purported evil deeds of Richard III, the murder of the Princes in the Tower, and the Battle of Bosworth Field, which was fought #onthisday in 1485.
A good example of Tudor propaganda.
A song of the Life and Death of King Richard the Third (to the tune of Who list to lead a soldier's life)
and
The most cruel murther of Edward the fifth, and his brother Duke of York, in the Tower; by their Uncle Richard Duke of Gloucester (to the tune of Fortune my foe)
From Richard Johnson's ballad miscellany, The Golden Garland of Princely Delights, 1620