Shakespeare Re-shaped (Susan Elkin reviews)
Shakespeare Re-shaped – Opera Up Close Posted on April 12, 2021 The second of a pair of coffee concerts from Opera Up Close –at a...
Shakespeare Re-shaped – Opera Up Close Posted on April 12, 2021 The second of a pair of coffee concerts from Opera Up Close –at a...
Calming the Tempest – Opera Up Close Posted on April 12, 2021 One of a series of online coffee concerts from Opera Up...
We’re in Tuscany in 1528 where a nun, Alessandra Cecchi, has just died having left instructions that she is not to be...
Oxford Lieder Winterreise Posted on March 2, 2021 All the way from the resonant arpeggios of Gute Nacht to the haunting, wistful A...
My third granddaughter (GD3), aged 9 and an avid reader, recently decided and declared that the books she likes best are about...
Rumer Godden’s powerful, unsentimental 1955 novel is about children. But, however it might have been marketed, it doesn’t feel like a children’s...
I’ve known about the prison reform work of Elizabeth Fry since I was about 9 – thanks to The Girl, a sister...
Biographies written in the nineteenth century tended to be hagiographic or, at least, selective in what they told the reader. Think of...