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Friday, 16 August 2019
Until I visited the National Portrait Gallery’s “Cindy Sherman” exhibition – it runs until 15th September – I had been …
Continue reading "Review – Cindy Sherman at the National Portrait Gallery"
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 2 August 2019
I am dozing on a sun lounger; under a Carob tree; in the Algarve; overlooking the Ria Formosa Natural Park …
Continue reading "Review – Mozart’s abandoned opera L’Oca del Cairo"
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 5 July 2019
This is about a Carnegie Hall concert featuring Christopher Tin, the 43-year-old Californian, British educated composer with a Grammy award …
Continue reading "Christopher Tin – so much more than a crossover composer"
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 21 June 2019
David Ross, the mobile mogul who built his Carphone Warehouse empire in the “loadsamoney” era of the nineties, has revealed …
Continue reading "Nevill Holt Opera – a glimpse of an era past"
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 14 June 2019
A new work by American composer, David Lang, is always an important event. He self describes as a passionate, prolific …
Continue reading "David Lang – opera’s rebel without a cause"
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 7 June 2019
Charleston is a whizz of a town. This is my third visit for the annual Spoleto Festival. I stay in …
Continue reading "Southern opera festival marred by massacre of Strauss"
By Gerald Malone
Thursday, 6 June 2019
The President of the United States has swapped swamps. Goodbye DC. Hello, Whitehall, Buckingham Palace, Normandy, complete with cheers, taunts, …
Continue reading "Self-obsessed Democrats will struggle to defeat incumbent Trump"
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 31 May 2019
It’s not far, as the crow flies, from the Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, Manhattan Midtown, to The Flea Theater, …
Continue reading "Unearthing a Manhattan opera jewel to rival the Met"
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 17 May 2019
James K. Polk, President USA, 1845 – 1849. The name caught my eye because – ignoramus – I had never …
Continue reading "Sarah Childress Polk – America’s first First Lady"
By Gerald Malone
