I'll think of something later

Only in London, I'd guess, could you leap within an hour from a 'Thursday pops' concert in a classical Greek setting to a comple...

Any excuse, I know, to post yet another shot of my own delectable mountains, the Maiella range of Italy's central Abruzzo. Yet they di...

Having expected a polar-opposite experience between Gergiev's Mahler 9 at the Barbican the week before last and Haitink's Strauss on...

...which in my case, at least for one week a year, happens to be the Stella Artois Tennis Championships at Queen's Club. We locals have ...

That was very much the sensation at Glyndebourne on Sunday, not only because Tchaikovsky's most personal opera is certainly deeply ups...

Few, I think, would claim Troilus and Cressida as their best-loved Shakespeare play, but it exercised a horrible fascination on me when ...

Yes, I know it's not a silver rose, but this perfect specimen from the south side of the Gardens does seem to sum up the dreamy Straus...

Scenes like this greeted us late every afternoon as we drove in our hire car back from our daily hikes in the Maiella mountains of Italy. ...

Having decided not to bother with another Royal Opera revival of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra , I changed my mind on two accounts. I toyed...