Mar

31

SCRIPTLASH

Mar 31, 2022

2 min read

Mar

28

DON PASQUALE & MR MORGAN

A first visit to see an opera is a make or break experience and so, luckily for me, I slept

Mar 28, 2022

5 min read

Mar

26

SPRING TORRENTS & MAHLER'S 1ST

Mahler's 1st symphony is as perfect a soundtrack for Spring as you'll ever find. It has

Mar 26, 2022

5 min read

Mar

23

WOTAN, MEET WOTAN

Miss Butterfly (Cio Cio San) was singing as one of Brunnhilde's sisters in Wagner's Die Walkure,

Mar 23, 2022

4 min read

Mar

22

THE KRAYS OF GRAYS & THE GOODFELLAS OF STROUD

There's nothing like the smell of stale lager on pool table cloth. It just has a certain heady

Mar 22, 2022

4 min read

Mar

16

THE SAVIOUR OF SWANS

Mar 16, 2022

3 min read

Mar

15

INDIANA JONES & THE GUILD DINNER

Merchant Tailors' HallMy friend had invited me to the event due to his family bearing one of the oldest

Mar 15, 2022

4 min read

Mar

14

INJUPITIBLY

Nothing gave him greater pleasure than using the United Kingdom as a decoy for his own domestic failings. Whenever the

Mar 14, 2022

5 min read

Mar

14

GIANNI SCHICCHI & THE BATTLE OF THE WILL

It seems to me that rarely is a will mentioned in conversation without some familial dysfunction involved. Only recently a

Mar 14, 2022

4 min read

Mar

12

YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY

"In the new world, it is not the big fish that eats the small fish, it's the

Mar 12, 2022

5 min read