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I've been to several sublime concerts and operas in recent weeks - and one thing I've never lost since I started going to this sort...

Very happy about the coincidence that on International Women's Day, I came across the work of a brilliant international woman. Within ...

Whatever one thinks of Wagner, it's unlikely the first word that springs to mind is 'funnyman'. Yet, there towards the end of hi...

Veterans of this blog - I salute you! - will know that I occasionally post some of my photography on here. I feel that taking pictures is as...

Browsing the music section in a vast London bookshop the other day, I came across a volume called ‘Lit Up Inside’. It had a plain cover and...

"Nocturnes is an evening of memories, myths and dreams," begins the programme text. In some of the interviews in the run-up to t...

French Revolution melodrama 'Andrea Chénier' feels, in many ways, like THE event of the Royal Opera House's current season. The ...