I'll think of something later

My Opera in Depth course this term - half devoted to Janáček 's Jenůfa , the other to Martin ů 's Julietta - had already been unde...

'Now I’ve conducted Tristan for the first time, and it was the most wonderful day of my life'. I used the same quotation - the 27-y...

Staring next Wednesday afternoon (UPDATE - now 4 August owing to an emergency hospital visit last week), I'm back on Zoom again along wi...

He mostly sings, of course - and this is his first Tristan year, making him for me the most convincing interpreter of the role I've ...

Three came along to my Opera in Depth class at the Frontline Club, head- and heart-devoted this term to Wagner's Tristan und Isolde , a...

The end of the above scene in ENO's Anish Kapoor-designed Tristan and Isolde , as photographed (like other images from the productio...

They do these kind of events very well, the Germans, and returning to the ambassador's residence was bound to be a pleasure. Especia...

Our beloved friend Linda Esther Gray has taken up her poetic pen again: having chronicled with painful truth the saga of her own meteoric c...

A flying visit, to see Wagner at the Opéra , which turned out to be not so much the keenly-anticipated 'Fura dels Baus Tristan ' as ...