Specs

'Inventing Impressionism' is the current headline Sainsbury Wing exhibition at London's National Gallery and I have to confess t...

Botanical art might be a familiar genre - in fact, I posted about some truly great examples only a short while ago. Botanical art song, how...

I suppose there's something appropriate about there being a lot of 'volatility' in the opera world. I've written on the blog...

Most of the time when I go to the opera, it isn't just me: there's a group of us (including Mrs Specs) and I tend to organise the bo...

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...