After looking at John Sell Cotman’s magisterial watercolour Greta Bridge the other week I couldn’t resist choosing another painting of an English bridge, partly because it’s very beautiful and partly because it could hardly be more different.
Verdi’s Falstaff at the Met delivers the lulz
Is Falstaff a casual, end of career “farewell tour” simply to prove the critics who claimed Verdi could not write comedy wrong? Far from it.