It’s June. The sun is out – sometimes. Champagne should be bubbling over as the sweating, overdressed British stalk the herbaceous borders of unlikely country houses in search of operatic strawberries. It isn’t. It’s banned. So, on Tuesday Garsington Opera at Wormsley, gave us The Skating Rink, by composer, David Sawer in an as-live reprise of the 2018 production on the excellent Operavision platform. The Skating Rink rates a raspberry.
An RA exhibit details attempts to wipe out Ukrainian culture – and what survived
The parallels between the threat to Ukrainian culture in the 1930s and today are unmistakable.
