Lockdown Summer
Mature Times travel writer Nigel Heath was so inspired by the clearer skies and enhanced sounds of nature all around his hillside cottage home just outside Monmouth following lockdown, that he set him ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Scheherazade on line
The sultan’s favourite wife is caught in flagrante delicto with a Negro slave. Orientalism was in vogue and sex and violence have always been popular, Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes had a huge success wit ...
Paula’s Wines of the Week – Week starting 8 June 2020
Pretending to be a well-known wine personality while swirling and sniffing the contents of each wine glass is half the fun of wine appreciation. But sometimes, I admit it, I need help identifying a wi ...
Robert Tanitch reviews The Royal Opera House’s Il Trittico on line
Giacomo Puccini’s Il Trittico had its premiere in New York in 1918. He had long wanted to do a collection of operas in one night. Impresarios are not keen on double-bills, let alone triple bills. Audi ...