How Michael Tanner both misunderstands and understands Turandot
Yesterday I attended a Royal Opera House Covent Garden dress rehearsal, of Puccini’s Turandot. Never having seen Turandot on stage before, I learned a lot. The singing was pretty good, especially the...
View ArticleENO Traviata dress rehearsal
Yesterday GodDaughter2 arranged for me to accompany her and and a selection her singing student friends to a dress rehearsal of the ENO’s La Traviata. Like every show at the E(nglish) NO, It was sung...
View ArticleLohengrin at the ROH
This afternoon, I will journey to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, to see and hear the first night, no less, of Lohengrin. It will be deep into the darkness of the evening before I journey back...
View ArticleAn ideal Showboat
Recently I bought a CD set of Showboat, and yesterday I listened to it. Showboat is not really my kind of thing. When it comes to singing, I tend to prefer either Schubert or the Rolling Stones. I...
View ArticleThoughts on concentra …
I was reading this piece by Will Self about the baleful effect upon literature of the internet, screen reading instead of proper reading from paper bound into books, etc. But then I got interrupted by...
View ArticleQuota sunset from 2015
I left it too late and I am now too tired to do anything here today, so here’s a random quota photo: Taken in May 2015, from the South Bank, looking north across the River. I’m pretty sure that’s the...
View ArticleMe and my camera at the ENO
Today, thanks to GodDaughter2, who is a singing student, I got to see a dress rehearsal of a new opera being staged by English National Opera called Jack The Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel. I had my...
View ArticleJoin the Police and get yourself nicer eyelashes
Earlier in the week, GodDaughter2 was out West, doing an audition (successfully as it turned out), and afterwards we met up. After dining, we visited the nearby Westfield shopping centre, and while she...
View ArticleHoward Goodall on the world’s first recording star
I’ve been dipping into Howard Goodall’s Big Bangs, which is a book (based on a BBC TV show), whose subtitle is “The Story of Five Discoveries That Changed Musical History”. I have started at the end,...
View ArticleThe Babylon Bee joins Twitter and Facebook in seeking to suppress claims that...
Yes, my favourite insect has for many weeks been a bee, the Babylon Bee. But now, the Bee is telling me this: Since you did not click on that article, you were not horrified by all the alleged...
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