- Venue: Grange Park Opera
- Date: 6th July 2021
- Directed by: Stephen Medcalf
- Staring: Bryn Terfel; Natalya Romaniw
Brilliant Bryn, but not a one man show…
Yesterday to Grange Park Opera to see Falstaff with Bryn Terfel.
- Venue: Opera Holland Park
- Date: 29th June 2021
- Directed by: Oliver Platt
- Staring: Ross Ramgobin (Figaro); Nardus Williams (Countess Almaviva); Samantha Price (Cherubino)
What a surprise, a conventional Holland Park production!
Just back from The Marriage of Figaro at Opera Holland Park - the normal 1000 seat auditorium now a socially distanced 400, and the sides far more open to allow greater air circulation.
- Venue: Royal Academy of Arts (RA)
- Date: 22nd June 2021
Pushing boundaries…again!
Just back from the Hockney at the RA.
Click to continue reading: David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020
- Venue: British Museum
- Date: 3rd June 2021
What we think we know isn’t necessarily true
Today we went to the British Museum to see the two exhibitions on Nero and Thomas Becket.
- Venue: Opera Holland Park
- Date: 2nd June 2021
- Directed by: Mariame Clement
- Staring: Elena Tsallagova (Fiorilla, Soprano); Rodion Pogossov (Don Geronio, bass-Baritone) Andrea Mastroni (Selim, bass-Baritone). Mattia Olivieri (Prosdocimo, Baritone)
Attempting to make an opera plot more sensible?
Yesterday at Glyndebourne to see il Turco in Italia - Glyndebourne’s reinterpretation of Rossini through Pirandello’s spectacles.