Donald McIntyre has died. I hope that the West Norwood library copy of Die Walküre on VHS I requested (in 2003!) gets some fresh attention as a result. ⚡
November 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Donald McIntyre has died. I hope that the West Norwood library copy of Die Walküre on VHS I requested (in 2003!) gets some fresh attention as a result. ⚡
Dvorak Requiem from @wimbledon-choral.bsky.social at Southwark Cathedral this evening 👏🏻
November 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Dvorak Requiem from @wimbledon-choral.bsky.social at Southwark Cathedral this evening 👏🏻
Mark Hamill/Star Wars
Tom Hulce/Amadeus
Anthony Perkins/Psycho
Tim Curry/Rocky Horror
Renée Jeanne Falconetti/The Passion of Joan of Arc
All extraordinary performances - and (without being too reductive) essentially, one-hit wonders. Who else?
Tom Hulce/Amadeus
Anthony Perkins/Psycho
Tim Curry/Rocky Horror
Renée Jeanne Falconetti/The Passion of Joan of Arc
All extraordinary performances - and (without being too reductive) essentially, one-hit wonders. Who else?
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Mark Hamill/Star Wars
Tom Hulce/Amadeus
Anthony Perkins/Psycho
Tim Curry/Rocky Horror
Renée Jeanne Falconetti/The Passion of Joan of Arc
All extraordinary performances - and (without being too reductive) essentially, one-hit wonders. Who else?
Tom Hulce/Amadeus
Anthony Perkins/Psycho
Tim Curry/Rocky Horror
Renée Jeanne Falconetti/The Passion of Joan of Arc
All extraordinary performances - and (without being too reductive) essentially, one-hit wonders. Who else?
Greenwich looking fine today 👌🏼
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Greenwich looking fine today 👌🏼
Did Lenin & Stalin really meet under this clock in The Crown pub in Clerkenwell in 1903?
November 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Did Lenin & Stalin really meet under this clock in The Crown pub in Clerkenwell in 1903?
Excellent first night's performance of Jake Heggie's opera Dead Man Walking at ENO. And one of the great [sic] performances in this or any other house from Christine Rice, as Sister Helen Prejean.
November 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Excellent first night's performance of Jake Heggie's opera Dead Man Walking at ENO. And one of the great [sic] performances in this or any other house from Christine Rice, as Sister Helen Prejean.
Sacre Coeur, Notre Dame, Saint Chapelle, Tour Eiffel. We saw other stuff last week but this visit was unashamed tourism, so Vive la Rébublique 🇫🇷
October 31, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Sacre Coeur, Notre Dame, Saint Chapelle, Tour Eiffel. We saw other stuff last week but this visit was unashamed tourism, so Vive la Rébublique 🇫🇷
I'm having a week on the Weald, what of it?
October 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I'm having a week on the Weald, what of it?
The outstanding Wes Anderson wall at the Uckfield Picturehouse Restaurant
October 31, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The outstanding Wes Anderson wall at the Uckfield Picturehouse Restaurant
UNESCO World Heritage site(s) St Martin's Church and St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. The latter now a ruin but still substantial with the footprint of its legacy
October 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
UNESCO World Heritage site(s) St Martin's Church and St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. The latter now a ruin but still substantial with the footprint of its legacy
Tonight: Chris Marker's La Jetée (1962). So spare, so strong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6anM...
Chris Marker, La Jetee, 1962
YouTube video by Whitechapel Gallery
www.youtube.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Tonight: Chris Marker's La Jetée (1962). So spare, so strong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6anM...
"Deep down you could say that this country [the UK] has never accepted opera... in the same way they have in Germany [etc.]"
About 35mins in www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
About 35mins in www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
This Cultural Life - Thomas Adès - BBC Sounds
Composer and conductor Thomas Adès reveals his formative creative influences.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"Deep down you could say that this country [the UK] has never accepted opera... in the same way they have in Germany [etc.]"
About 35mins in www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
About 35mins in www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Watched A Bout de Souffle (1960) last night. Wondered whether the footage of "Eisenhower on the Champs Elysées with de Gaulle" was real. It is 👌🏼 youtu.be/OBvzGubw2Ug?...
Eisenhower In France (1959)
YouTube video by British Pathé
youtu.be
October 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Watched A Bout de Souffle (1960) last night. Wondered whether the footage of "Eisenhower on the Champs Elysées with de Gaulle" was real. It is 👌🏼 youtu.be/OBvzGubw2Ug?...
"... located in an area of natural horror." Good effort 🎃 #halloween
October 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"... located in an area of natural horror." Good effort 🎃 #halloween
At the chapel of Lincoln's Inn, central London, consecrated by John Donne just over 400 years ago. Came across this poem of Donne's recently: The Good-Morrow www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44104/...
September 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
At the chapel of Lincoln's Inn, central London, consecrated by John Donne just over 400 years ago. Came across this poem of Donne's recently: The Good-Morrow www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44104/...
This video is AMAZING (TW: and also a bit sexist) youtu.be/18V0DJvPRdI?...
1964: The GUNS of JAMES BOND | Time Out | Making of... | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
youtu.be
September 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This video is AMAZING (TW: and also a bit sexist) youtu.be/18V0DJvPRdI?...
Leontine Price is not on this list, so dismissed out of hand www.telegraph.co.uk/music/classi...
The 10 greatest operatic sopranos of all time, ranked
Sopranos – the highest voices in the operatic repertory – have dominated the musical landscape. Here are my favourites
www.telegraph.co.uk
September 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Leontine Price is not on this list, so dismissed out of hand www.telegraph.co.uk/music/classi...
Quality 👏🏻🎵🇬🇧🎶 (via www.facebook.com/share/p/16vn...)
September 14, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Quality 👏🏻🎵🇬🇧🎶 (via www.facebook.com/share/p/16vn...)
Such a London day. Kiefer/Van Gogh at the RA, sushi on Brewer St., coffee at the Algerian Coffee shop Old Compton St. then the last day of Watteau at the British Museum 👌🏼
September 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Such a London day. Kiefer/Van Gogh at the RA, sushi on Brewer St., coffee at the Algerian Coffee shop Old Compton St. then the last day of Watteau at the British Museum 👌🏼
Handsome place. New era starting on 11 September with new artistic director Jakub Hrůša's first performance 🤞🏻
September 10, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Handsome place. New era starting on 11 September with new artistic director Jakub Hrůša's first performance 🤞🏻